Yahoo News Repeats the False Claim Tuvalu Is Sinking Beneath Rising Seas, Data Show It Is Growing
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H. Sterling Burnett -
November 9, 2021 1
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In an interview, Seve Paeniu, the finance minister of the island nation of Tuvalu, tells Yahoo News his country is sinking beneath rising seas as a result of climate change. Hard data gathered for multiple studies, shows this claim is false. Tuvalu has been growing, both in size and population, as the earth has modestly warmed.
In the Yahoo News story, titled “‘Tuvalu is sinking:’ Island nation threatened by sea level rise looks for salvation,” Paeniu explains to Yahoo News senior editor David Knowles that Tuvalu came to COP-26 requesting developed countries give it money to help it take actions to stave off its climate change induced disappearance.
“Tuvalu is sinking, Finance Minister Seve Paeniu proclaims of his island nation as he sits down for an interview with Yahoo News at the U.N. Climate Change Conference.
…https://climaterealism.com/2021/11/yahoo-news-repeats-the-false-claim-tuvalu-is-sinking-beneath-rising-seas-data-show-it-is-growing/