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‘Sinking’ Pacific Island Actually Getting Bigger

James Delingpole
Breitbart Big Government

Tuvalu – the Pacific island group often cited by climate alarmists as the nation most immediately at risk from rising sea levels caused by ‘global warming’ – is not sinking after all.  In fact it’s getting bigger, scientists now admit.

A University of Auckland study examined changes in the geography of Tuvalu’s nine atolls and 101 reef islands between 1971 and 2014, using aerial photographs and satellite imagery.  It found eight of the atolls and almost three-quarters of the islands grew during the study period, lifting Tuvalu’s total land area by 2.9 percent, even though sea levels in the country rose at twice the global average.

 Co-author Paul Kench said the research, published Friday in the journal Nature Communications, challenged the assumption that low-lying island nations would be swamped as the sea rose.  “We tend to think of Pacific atolls as static landforms that will simply be inundated as sea levels rise, but there is growing evidence these islands are geologically dynamic and are constantly changing,” he said.

“The study findings may seem counter-intuitive, given that (the) sea level has been rising in the region over the past half century, but the dominant mode of change over that time on Tuvalu has been expansion, not erosion.”

If only they’d done their study a bit earlier they could have saved a lot of alarmists a lot of worry.

The Real Threat

Our Doom Is Sure

Catastrophism is a peculiar state of mind which sees the end of life as we know it drawing near.  Whilst the phobia is certain that the end is coming, the precise form of the threat can change.

In the 1970's Paul Ehrlich was warning us that overpopulation was going to destroy the planet.  The decade before that, Rachel Carson was solemnly declaring in Silent Spring that DDT was going to poison us all.  Nevil Shute was sketching out nuclear Armageddon in his dystopian novel, On the Beach. And then, in the eighties, there was the threat looming of a new Ice Age which would devastate the planet and see us all off to frozen graves.  But by the end of the next decade in the nineties the end of life as we knew it would come about through global warming.  The planet was going to cook to death.  And, of course, there was the multi-decadal threat from space asteroids hitting earth.

Now a new catastrophic threat is emerging.