November 5, 2018
Bad news for Warmists: those ‘shrinking Pacific islands are actually growing
By Thomas Lifson
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
Read more:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/11/bad_news_for_warmists_those_shrinking_pacific_islands_are_actually_growing_.html#ixzz5VywNsF8u
