Science brings surprises! Developing island nations… “Atoll, island stability is a global trend”!
Via P Gosselin
Despite what we hear from the media and climate activists, hard scientific findings show that island nations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans are doing well…not sinking at all. rest.
Those who warn of sea level rise are deeply exaggerating. Image: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
The IPCC’s high-level sea level prediction for 2100 is “very wrong”.
Global warming alarmists like to claim that island nations in the Pacific are on the verge of disappearing – due to rising sea levels caused by melting polar ice due to global warming, thus is thought to be due to increased concentrations of “heat-trapped” CO2 from burning fossil fuels.
They say these reef island nations are in danger of going bankrupt soon, unless we start weaning off fossil fuels soon.
Reef island nations are emerging, not disappearing
But just yesterday Here’s Kenneth presentation about a new paper appeared in nature, (Kench et al., 2023), examines whether coral reef islands are in fact witnessing unprecedented and rapid physical changes that threaten to outweigh adaptation measures human response or not. The authors analyzed the dynamics of a Maldivian reef island over a millennium to decade period.
Recent changes are not unprecedented
The researchers found that “the change of the island over the past half-century (±40 m movement) is not unprecedented compared with the ancient dynamic evidence”.
Nothing unusual is happening. Global data shows that almost all islands are in fact growing and not disappearing underwater as climate alarmists mistakenly believe.
“Recent shoreline changes (±40 m/50 years) are ‘dwarf’ compared with shoreline changes (±200 m/100 years) that occurred during previous centuries,” the authors said. author of the study wrote.
89% of all islands in the world are stable or developing!
Furthermore, just four years ago, another peer-reviewed publication appeared in a popular magazine found similar results: 89% of islands globally and 100% of large islands have stable or developing coastlines! According to Duvat, 2019:
“88.6% of the islands stabilize or increase in size, while only 11.4% shrink. Notably No island is larger than 10 hectares, reducing the area. These results show that Atoll and island region stability is a global trend, regardless of the rate of sea level rise.”
More than that, Khan et al (2018) found: “Predicting sea level rise of 4–6.6 ft over the next 91 years from 2009 to 2100 is highly misleading.”
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