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Six years later, New York Times mentions that the Maldives is not sinking
clintel.org ^ | Jo Nova

Posted on 07/01/2024 6:44:47 AM PDT by daniel1212

In 2018, a study of aerial photos of 700 Pacific Islands showed that 89% were the same size or growing. This rather destroyed the idea that sea levels were swallowing small nations. The New York Times said nothing. Indeed, the only Pacific things shrinking were deserted sand drifts. No islands bigger than 10 hectares were getting smaller. Measured in square kilometers that’s “0.1”. Despite the media headlines and delegations from Kiribati and Tuvulu begging for money to hold back the tide, no islands with people living on them were shrinking. None, not one island in the Pacific big enough to matter, was disappearing. The largest 630 islands in the Pacific were had not being touched by climate change for decades.

In 2023 another study of 1,100 islands came to the same conclusion. To find that many islands they included things as small as one thousandth of a square kilometer — we’re talking about spits of sand 10 meters square. (There are whales larger than that.)  The Kench team studied islands in the Indian Ocean too. In one case, they sliced, diced and drilled through one poor island in the Maldives and discovered it had a history like tossed salad. The ocean had churned and turned every part of it.

Now, six years later, the New York Times is catching up on one small part  — the Maldives, they admit, are not vanishing like they were supposed to. But the Times are still not saying that the original study came out in 2018, and that hundreds of media stories on sea levels were wrong, out of date and pointless, and all the claims of damage by Pacific Islanders were not just grossly exaggerated but utterly baseless. They’re not saying that all the anxiety that ideological scientists and sloppy journalists have whipped up has probably harmed the very islanders they pretended to care about. They’re not admitting that this must have been obvious to many of the islanders who lived there, surely, but who were happy to milk the fake crisis for all it was worth.

The Vanishing Islands That Failed to Vanish



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climategeddon; cop26; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; maldives; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; panicporn
Cited report: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/26/climate/maldives-islands-climate-change.html

I do not argue that there has been some global rise in temps, and certain other changes, as over 100 years of the industrial revolution and wars should have some effect, but that this does not justify the climageddon response, driven mainly by power-hungry entities and those who look to them as saviors. Instead, I see any actual changes as being a result of the earth system adapting, being a result of the earth being over-engineered (in the positive sense) to handle such, and with the benefits of any actual warming being marginalized by climageddon alarmists.

1 posted on 07/01/2024 6:44:47 AM PDT by daniel1212
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To: daniel1212

Our sacrifices to Gaia have caused her to show us mercy! Clearly we need to continue to make sacrifices to her and if anything, increase the sacrifices to get her to hold back the rising seas. Everything depends on her sparing us from the Climate Crisis!


2 posted on 07/01/2024 6:51:52 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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3 posted on 07/01/2024 6:52:11 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: daniel1212

What were they sinking?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmOTpIVxji8


4 posted on 07/01/2024 7:26:59 AM PDT by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: daniel1212

That won’t stop Guam from tipping over.


5 posted on 07/01/2024 7:52:57 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

What about Kiribati(Tarawa)?


6 posted on 07/01/2024 8:17:53 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: daniel1212

Plymouth Rock is exactly where it was vis-a-vis the ocean as in 1620.


7 posted on 07/01/2024 8:36:29 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." Jimi Hendrix)
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To: LS

Half the US was supposed to already have flooded, including Mar-a-Lago.


8 posted on 07/01/2024 8:54:05 AM PDT by bgill (.)
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To: daniel1212

“...were had not being touched by climate change...”

were/had not BEEN touched by climate change.

Urinalists!


9 posted on 07/01/2024 9:26:11 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: ASOC

Where are the Maldives?
The article cites the Pacific Ocean. Is that right?


10 posted on 07/01/2024 10:45:33 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

11 posted on 07/01/2024 11:16:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: daniel1212

too hot? Move to the coast or up north. Too cold? Move south. Too much water intrusion? move uphill. Tried and true solution to climate change for over 7,000 years,.


12 posted on 07/01/2024 11:34:59 AM PDT by coalminersson
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To: ptsal

I know, people are ignorant, they think that just because the Pacific Ocean isn’t rising relative to land, the Atlantic can’t keep it to itself. obvious sarcasm.... I hope


13 posted on 07/01/2024 12:07:35 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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14 posted on 07/01/2024 12:09:45 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: daniel1212

I remember their idiot president trying to sue the US for his sinking islands. As a matter of fact some of the islands have lost elevation. But not from ‘sinking.’ They have been mining the tops for building materials.


15 posted on 07/01/2024 12:10:28 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: ptsal
The Maldives are in the Indian Ocean near India.

Delos is another island supposedly threatened with disappearance because of climate change, even though there is a hill 370 high on the island.

16 posted on 07/01/2024 1:11:34 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: daniel1212

These islands are ONE INCH above sea level... unless water on one side of a coffee cup and be higher than the other side... then it ain’t happening.


17 posted on 07/01/2024 8:01:12 PM PDT by GOPJ (Biden can READ a speech IF written for him. Take the teleprompter away and Biden's a babbling idiot.)
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To: yesthatjallen

bump


18 posted on 07/02/2024 2:45:15 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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