Pacific And Indian Ocean Island Nations Growing Or Stable
Despite what we hear from the media and climate activists, hard scientific findings show that Pacific and Indian Ocean island nations are doing just fine…and not at all sinking away
Global warming alarmists like to claim that Pacific island nations are on the verge of disappearing – due torising sea levels caused by polar ice melting due to global warming, which in turn is supposedly caused by rising concentrations of “heat-trapping” trace gas CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels.
These coral reef island nations risk going under real soon, unless we wean ourselves from fossil fuels soon, they say.
But yesterday, NTZ’s Kenneth Richard presented a new paper appearing in Nature (Kench et al., 2023), which looks at whether the coral reef islands are in fact seeing unprecedented and undergoing accelerating physical changes that risk outrunning human adaptation measures.
Recent changes not unprecedented
The researchers found that “island change over the past half-century (±40 m movement) is not unprecedented compared with paleo-dynamic evidence.”
Nothing unusual is happening. The global data suggest that almost all islands are in fact growing, and not disappearing under the water like climate alarmists mistakenly believe.
“Recent shoreline changes (±40 m/50 years) are ‘dwarfed’ by the shoreline changes (±200 m/100 years) that occurred throughout previous centuries,” the study’s authors write.
89 percent of all the globe’s islands are stable, or growing!
Moreover, just four years ago, another peer-reviewed publication appearing in a renowned journal found similar results: 89 percent of the globe’s islands and ALL the large islands have stable or growing coasts!
According to Duvat, 2019:
“88.6 percent of islands were either stable or increased in the area, while only 11.4 percent contracted. It is noteworthy that no island larger than 10 ha decreased in size.
“These results show that atoll and island areal stability is a global trend, whatever the rate of sea-level rise.”
Moreover, Khan et al (2018) found: “Prediction of 4–6.6 ft sea level rise in the next 91 years between 2009 and 2100 is highly erroneous.”
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