The constant media refrain that man-caused global warming is dooming many small Pacific Islands to sink beneath rising sea levels continues, even as science – and in one case the former president of an “endangered” island – refutes the alarmists, as Andrew Holt of the Herald-Sun in Australia reports:
[A] new paper by Virginie K. E. Duvat, of the Institut du Littoral et de l'Environnement, University of la Rochelle, France:
A reanalysis of available data, which cover 30 Pacific and Indian Ocean atolls including 709 islands, reveals that no atoll lost land area and that 88.6% of islands were either stable or increased in area, while only 11.4% contracted...
The state-owned broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, is particularly relentless in its propagandizing over the purported doom facing the Micronesian islands in its geographic neighborhood, recently rather comically so. As Bolt recalled, just a couple of weeks ago, a television news presenter tried to goad the former president of Kiribati into playing the victim card, and face-planted:...........To Read More.....Over the recent past, 29 atolls exhibited a stable land area, while one (South Tarawa, Kiribati) increased in size
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