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Bad news for warmists: those 'shrinking Pacific islands' are actually growing
American Thinker ^ | 11/05/2018 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 11/05/2018 7:46:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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[.] ... 

Over the recent past, 29 atolls exhibited a stable land area, while one (South Tarawa, Kiribati) increased in size[.]

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:


Butaritari, Kiribati (photo credit: Flickr).

Host Fran Kelly, one of the ABC's most committed warmists, today asked an ex-president of Kiribati, Anote Tong, how much his islands were drowning, and criticised the current president for saying they weren't.

Kelly: The urgency of addressing climate change has intensified...

Tong: For those countries on the front line, their fate is virtually doomed... Global warming will continue, the sea level rise will continue...

Kelly: These are the predictions, what is the reality now... What is the situation now, how perilous is it?


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; pacificislands; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 11/05/2018 7:46:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

You want to know how this is all a lie?

Far left wealthy progressives and liberals still buy insanely priced beach front properties.

They don’t even believe their own propaganda.


2 posted on 11/05/2018 7:51:40 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: SeekAndFind

In the case of journalists, progressives, and lib arts departments, “settle science” is really “settled seance”.

Dimmer bulbs existeth not in the multiverse.


3 posted on 11/05/2018 7:51:42 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: SeekAndFind

I had no idea that a piece of dirt could be a climate denier.

30 years ago, the climateers cried doom. I’m still waiting for my old real estate lot in Las Vegas to become waterfront property....


4 posted on 11/05/2018 7:52:58 AM PST by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: SeekAndFind

You mean that Global Warming has made it so hot that the water is evaporating, causing the islands to grow!?!?!?!?!?!?!? We’re all gonna die!!!!


5 posted on 11/05/2018 7:53:14 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I am just waiting for the global warming alarmists to tell us that they just realized that global warming is causing all the water to evaporate into outer space and that the Earth will soon be a desert.


6 posted on 11/05/2018 7:54:54 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: SeekAndFind

Are any of them tipping over yet?


7 posted on 11/05/2018 7:58:00 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Da Coyote

“Settled seance” + “existeth not” = witty! Well played!


8 posted on 11/05/2018 7:58:19 AM PST by karnage
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To: SeekAndFind

The Left is built on lies, all the way down.


9 posted on 11/05/2018 8:05:15 AM PST by bkopto
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To: SeekAndFind

“Ummmmm ... errrrrr ... well, you know, heat makes things expand! That’s just science! Everyone knows that, you racist!”


10 posted on 11/05/2018 8:05:45 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

And with all of the oceans’ moisture going up into the atmosphere you will never see a future day without total cloud cover, forever. /sarc


11 posted on 11/05/2018 8:12:39 AM PST by Pecos (Better the one you have with you than the one you left at home.)
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To: SeekAndFind

So there is no problem, atoll?


12 posted on 11/05/2018 8:12:41 AM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in-never, never,never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. Winston Churchill)
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To: SeekAndFind

Coral atolls are made of coral, which is the rock created by colonies of living animals. They like light, and therefore build the coral up to the surface. If sea level rises, they will just keep building upwards.


13 posted on 11/05/2018 8:28:03 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: SeekAndFind

Gee, I wonder if tectonic shift happens as a result of globull varming..

or do some islands rise and some islands sink as the plates collide..

and climate scientists collude *-?


14 posted on 11/05/2018 8:28:42 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

That means the oceans are evaporating due to climate change.


15 posted on 11/05/2018 8:30:36 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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I wanna go ! Looks great 👍
16 posted on 11/05/2018 8:45:41 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bookmark


17 posted on 11/05/2018 8:51:22 AM PST by aquila48
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To: ASOC

-—I had no idea that a piece of dirt -—

The growth factor is coral. The coral polyps have a better habitat for growtn in warmer water. Lagoon growth increases island size


18 posted on 11/05/2018 8:54:04 AM PST by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: SeekAndFind

They’re growing because of global warming, right?


19 posted on 11/05/2018 9:40:08 AM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: SkyDancer

Wait, I thought the oceans were going to drown us all (and the polar bears) because the polar ice caps are melting.


20 posted on 11/05/2018 10:27:42 AM PST by Cecily
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