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Posted on 09/21/2018 10:43:28 AM PDT by rktman
Environmental officials warned 30 years ago the Maldives could be completely covered by water due to global warming-induced sea level rise.
That didn’t happen. The Indian Ocean did not swallow the Maldives island chain as predicted by government officials in the 1980s.
In September 1988, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported a “gradual rise in average sea level is threatening to completely cover this Indian Ocean nation of 1196 small islands within the next 30 years,” based on predictions made by government officials.
Then-Environmental Affairs Director Hussein Shihab told AFP “an estimated rise of 20 to 30 centimetres in the next 20 to 40 years could be ‘catastrophic’ for most of the islands, which were no more than a metre above sea level.”
The article went on to suggest the Maldives, along with its 200,000 inhabitants, could “end” sooner than expected if drinking water supplies dry up by 1992 “as predicted.” Today, more than 417,000 people live in the Maldives.
“Call Noah and have him build another Ark,” Daniel Turner, executive director of the pro-energy group Power the Future, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Bring out the Coast Guard. Send all the boogie boards and floaties you can find for the Maldives is going down,” Turner said sarcastically.
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Goebbels warming. That’s great!!!!
I think that’s someone else’s, but I like it too! :^)
Has the land area of the Maldives actually decreased at all?
Only around the beaches. I used to live in Orlando, which is 50 miles from the nearest beach. The elevation of my neighborhood was 90 feet above sea level.
Yes. All those global warming refugees from Tonga are a humanitarian crisis.
LOL - someone should send a thousand copies of this to Al Gore...
If someone would give me a Grant for 5 mil or so I could go check to see if the ground is rising at the same the ocean is rising. Has to be the only answer that makes sense. They are probably sitting on a volcano peak that is slowly coming up.
Better make that 10 mil in case I have to search for a virgin to throw down the volcano if it erupts.
LOL - nope, no volcano. Sea level’s the same as always.
I often wonder why the names of the whole pack of morons who signed off on this "study"isn't published.
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