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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on October 02, 2020, 03:02:34 pm
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No, Rising Seas Are Not Swallowing Island Nations
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H. Sterling Burnett -
September 30, 20200
Among the top Google News search results today for “climate change†is the Associated Press (AP) story, “Leaders to UN: If virus doesn’t kill us, climate change will.†In the article, the AP claims that some like island nations like Tuvalu will completely disappear within 75 years due to rising seas. Scientific evidence, however, demolishes such claims.
Current sea-level rise is not at all unusual historically. Also, several peer-reviewed studies in recent years demonstrate that, even as the world has warmed modestly, many island nations are seeing their land masses increase, not shrink.
As detailed in Climate at a Glance: Sea Level Rise: sea level has been rising at a relatively steady pace of approximately one foot per century since at the mid-1800s, which was long before coal power plants and SUVs. Moreover, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms here has been no significant recent acceleration.
https://climaterealism.com/2020/09/no-rising-seas-are-not-swallowing-island-nations/