Islands that local weather alarmists stated would quickly “disappear” attributable to rising seas have been discovered to have elevated in measurement – do you agree?

By The DAILY SKEPTIC

BY CHRIS MORRISON

In the last 20 years alone, the coastline of 13,000 islands around the world has been expanded to include an area equivalent to the Isle of Wight. This fascinating fact of an increase of 369.67 square kilometers was recently discovered by a group of Chinese scientists who analyzed both surface and satellite records. Overall, land was lost in the 1990s, but the scientists found that there was a net gain of 157.21 km2 over the three-decade period ending in 2020. The study observed significant natural variation in both erosion and accretion. Of course, the results destroy alarmists' scaremongering, which suggests that sea level rise caused by human use of hydrocarbons will cause many islands to disappear shortly below rising sea levels. Such specious scaremongering tactics, as we have seen in many other cases, are used in desperate attempts to scare the world's population into accepting the insanity of net-zero collectivization.

The scientists said their data suggests that sea level rise is not a widespread cause of island coastline erosion in the regions studied. “Currently it is considered one of the factors contributing to coastal erosion, but not the dominant one,” they explained. It goes without saying that none of this will attract the attention of climate hysterics in both the mainstream media and politics. The Guardian was in good form last June, declaring that rising oceans would wipe out more than the land. “It will kill entire languages,” it added, citing the impact on Pacific islands like Tuvalu. The areas of the world that were most hospitable to people and languages ​​are now becoming the “least hospitable.”

Silly, emotional Guardianista nonsense, of course, but luckily that doesn't seem to apply to Tuvalu. A recent study found that the land mass of Tuvalu's 101 islands had increased by 2.9%. The scientists found that despite rising sea levels, many coastlines in Tuvalu and neighboring Pacific atolls have maintained their relative stability “without significant changes.” A comprehensive review of data from 30 atolls in the Pacific and Indian Oceans containing 709 islands found that none of them had lost land. In addition, the scientists added, there is data suggesting that the size of 47 reef islands has increased or remained stable over the past 50 years “despite sea level rise exceeding the global average.”

The Maldives is also a poster child for sea level rise. Attention-grabbing activist Mark Lynas – he is one of the nonsensical claims that 99.9% of scientists agree that humans are causing all or most of climate change – organizes an underwater local government cabinet meeting in 2009. In fact, the Maldives one of several areas where land mass has recently increased. Other areas include the Indonesian Archipelago, islands along the coast of the Indochinese Peninsula and islands in the Red and Mediterranean Seas. Notably, the coastal waters of the Indochina Peninsula recorded the largest increase with an increase of 106.28 km2 over the 30-year period. Of the 13,000 islands studied, the researchers found that only about 12% had experienced significant shoreline shift, with almost the same number experiencing either a landward (loss) or seaward (gain) shift.

The scientists identify many reasons why islands can increase in size despite the small annual sea level rise seen in many parts of the world. It is noted that the island's shorelines are constantly changing due to factors such as tides, winds, near-shore hydrodynamics and sediment transport. On inhabited islands, human actions such as fish farming and land reclamation can be important.

Of course, human actions can have a number of unintended consequences, most notably coral degradation and the collapse of natural water barriers. Island nations like the Maldives did not hesitate to demand “climate reparations” from guilty citizens in the developed world. But tourism has dramatically increased income in the Maldives to first-world levels at a time when locals have mined coral in industrial quantities to build ports, airports and resort complexes. As a result, the diversity of marine life has been lost and the islands are often less protected from storm waves that can rush directly onto the coast. In a recent paper, a group of scientists and economists claimed that coral mining “has led to massive degradation of shallow reef areas, with significant negative impacts on coastal protection.”

The Chinese findings are important in refuting claims that many low-lying islands will simply disappear beneath the waves in the near future due to human-caused climate change. They show that coastal change is a persistent and ongoing process subject to many natural and human influences. Most poster islands used for climate scandals, such as Tuvalu and the Maldives, have recently increased in size and are unlikely to stoke fears about a claimed climate emergency. Sea level rise is not a “main” cause of the changing coastlines, the scientists note.

Chris Morrison is the environmental editor of the Daily Sceptic.

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