Tuvalu
This fascinating fact of a 369.67 square kilometer increase has recently been discovered by a group of Chinese scientists analyzing both surface and satellite records.
Overall, land was lost during the 1990s, but the scientists found that in the study period of three decades to 2020 there was a net increase of 157.21 km2.
The study observed considerable natural variation in both erosion and accretion.
Of course, the findings blow holes in the poster scare run by alarmists suggesting that rising sea levels caused by humans using hydrocarbons will condemn many islands to disappear shortly beneath rising sea levels.
By means of such flimsy scare tactics, as
we have seen in many other cases, desperate attempts are made to
terrify global populations to accept the
insanity of the Net Zero
collectivization.
Needless to say, none of this will detain the attention of climate hysterics in both mainstream media and politics.
The Guardian was in fine form last June stating that rising oceans will extinguish more than land.
Those areas of the Earth that were most
hospitable to people and languages are now becoming the "least
hospitable".
A comprehensive re-examination of data on 30 Pacific and Indian Ocean atolls with 709 islands found that none of them had lost any land.
Furthermore, the scientists added, there are data that indicate 47 reef islands expanded in size or remained stable over the last 50 years,
The Maldives is also a poster scare for rising sea levels, with the attention-seeking activist Mark Lynas - he of the nonsense claim that 99.9% of scientists agree humans cause all or most climate change... - organizing an underwater Cabinet meeting of the local Government in 2009.
As it happens, the Maldives is one of a number of areas that have seen recent increases in land mass.
Other areas include the,
Notably, the coastal waters of,
The scientists identify many reasons why islands can grow in size despite the small annual rises in sea level seen in many parts of the world.
It is noted that island shorelines are constantly changing due to factors such tides, winds, nearshore hydrodynamics and the transport of sediment.
On inhabited islands, human action such as fish
farming and land reclamation can be important.
Island states such as the Maldives have not been slow in coming forward to claim 'climate reparations' from guilt-tripped citizens in the developed world.
But tourism has dramatically boosted income in the Maldives to first world levels at a time when the locals have mined coral in industrial quantities to build ports, airports and resort developments.
In the process, ocean life diversity has been lost and the islands are often less protected from storm waves that can flow direct to the shoreline.
In a recent essay, a group of scientists and economists charged that coral mining,
The Chinese findings are important in helping destroy the claim that many low-lying islands will simply "disappear" beneath the waves in the near future due to human-induced climate change.
They show how shoreline changes are a persistent and ongoing process that is subject to many natural and human influences.
Most of the poster islands used for climate scares such as Tuvalu and the Maldives have increased in size of late, and are hardly suitable to whip up fear of a claimed climate 'emergency'...
Sea level rise is not a "predominant" cause of
the changing coasts, the scientists note.
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