Climate “change” has jack to do with islands. 80% are growing land mass. A few are subducting because new land masses are appearing out of the ocean and that’s geology.
What the real problem is, most of these islands were never capable of supporting much more than a cursory population in the first place. (As Capt. Cook discovered two hundred years ago, fresh water access was a widespread problem, and cannibalism was the primary solution to sustainability throughout Oceania). Overpopulated islands need to be permanently subsidized, or the islanders need to find another island capable of supporting life.
“reef islands change shape and move around in response to shifting sediments, and that many of them are growing in size, not shrinking, as sea level inches upward. The implication is that many islands—especially less developed ones with few permanent structures—may cope with rising seas well into the next century.
But for the areas that have been transformed by human development, such as the capitals of Kiribati, Tuvalu, and Maldives, the future is considerably gloomier. That’s largely because their many structures—seawalls, roads, and water and electricity systems—are locked in place.”
#1 cause of sea level rise are wells and ground water extraction, followed by thermo expansion and melting glaciers.
From May 2012:
“A team of researchers reports in Nature Geoscience that land-based water storage could account for 0.77 millimetres per year, or 42%, observed sea-level rise between 1961 and 2003. Of that amount, the extraction of groundwater for irrigation and home and industrial use, with subsequent run-off to rivers and eventually to the oceans, represents the bulk of the contribution.”
http://www.nature.com/news/source-found-for-missing-water-in-sea-level-rise-1.10676
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WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!! In less than 125 years, every man, woman and child now living on Earth will be dead! Womyn and minorities will be hardest hit.
It’s all Trump’s fault.
Guam’s gonna definitely tip over!
I thought islands pop up and disappear in the natural coarse of things.
congress critter johnson sez "They all gwana capsize, when too many peoples goes to one side of the island, and all of that debreez gwana conflugate the andvirooonnmant including the great barristar reefers".
I bet some of them will tip over!
Yea right, .05 of a degree increase by 2100 and .17 if Paris extended 70 years is not going to “doom” any island. The sun activity does more than than in 5 seconds. Reason and rationality are not in the Lefts capabilities.
These articles could be written by a computer. Just put in a couple of particulars, and some made up name, and press “PRINT”.
I think this one is definitely made up. The name Hans Otto Wanker is the dead giveaway.
Are Tsunamis caused by Global warming? I would worry more about that than high tide if I lived on a low Island. My elevation here is about 11’ above sea level. I don’t lose sleep over it. We just got hit with a tropical storm, and we expect more.
#1 - Mary Ann, back in the day.
#2 - The U.S. Coast was supposed to be flooded by now, according to Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth”. So, I guess all of those islands that have been seen since then are actually illusions.
#3 - The global warming hysteria is a two-part phenomenon.
The first part is the elites trying to scam wealth and power from the masses. The elites may or may not believe in the actual existence the phenomenon, but considering they believe in nothing but themselves and their power, they probably are global warming infidels - not that it matters; it’s irrelevant to the goal.
The second part is merely the reaction of the masses to the elites’ propaganda campaign, that reaction being quasi-religious since the elites pose as the clergy of neo-Earth-Mother worship.
Dumb, dumber and dumbest.
Pacific islands ‘growing not shrinking’ due to climate change
Uh move?
Save the islamds! Starve billions without realistic expectation it will work instead!
Notwithstanding that this Climate deal encourages the massive third world to overconsume.
I am not believing anything stated by a man called “Wanker!” Just sayin’.
These “islands” will be around long after all of the living beings now on this planet have departed/died. This foolishness by the IPCC has to stop.
Waste of time, ink and paper.
Back in the 70’s there was a lot of talk about erosion in textbooks, magazine articles and even on the news.
Now it’s been replaced with climate change and sea level rise.
I live in Rhode Island. (Yeah I know, we’ve got lots of commies.). We may only be 60 by 40 miles big, but we’ve got hundreds of miles of coastline. It’s called Narragansett Bay. It’s been here for quite a while. I have maps going back to the 1700’s. Very accurate nautical charts. The water level hasn’t changed one inch in all that time.
Why don’t they ever talk to about Venice, Italy? I’ll bet they’ve got pretty good records of sea levels.
It’s all a lie.