Six years later, New York Times mentions that the Maldives is not sinking

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[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still not saying that the original study came out in 2018, and that hundreds of media stories on sea levels were wrong, out of date and pointless, and all the claims of damage by Pacific Islanders were not just grossly exaggerated but utterly baseless.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

[daniel1212]

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.

[FLT-bird]

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!

[Huskrrrr]

[ASOC]

What were they sinking?

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

[DannyTN]

That won’t stop Guam from tipping over.

[DIRTYSECRET]

What about Kiribati(Tarawa)?

[LS]

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

[bgill]

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

[faucetman]

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

were/had not BEEN touched by climate change.

Urinalists!

[ptsal]

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

[SunkenCiv]

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[coalminersson]

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,.

[Glad2bnuts]

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

[Albion Wilde]

[Organic Panic]

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.

[Verginius Rufus]

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.

[GOPJ]

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.

[yesthatjallen]

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