'Sinking' Pacific Nation Tuvalu Is Actually Getting Bigger (phys.org)

mi shares a report from Phys.Org: The Pacific nation of Tuvalu -- long seen as a prime candidate to disappear as climate change forces up sea levels -- is actually growing in size, new research shows. A University of Auckland study examined changes in the geography of Tuvalu's nine atolls and 101 reef islands between 1971 and 2014, using aerial photographs and satellite imagery. It found eight of the atolls and almost three-quarters of the islands grew during the study period, lifting Tuvalu's total land area by 2.9 percent, even though sea levels in the country rose at twice the global average. Co-author Paul Kench said the research, published Friday in the journal Nature Communications, challenged the assumption that low-lying island nations would be swamped as the sea rose. It found factors such as wave patterns and sediment dumped by storms could offset the erosion caused by rising water levels.

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Re:An interesting prospect, but also an edge case

[nonBORG]

Yes the horrific sea level rise in Tuvalu is documented here http://www.psmsl.org/data/obta... Note according to the summary the sea level is rising here at twice the global average. By drawing a trend line the people of Tuvalu may need to be worried about the increasing sea levels in about year infinity. There was an article about GW and the rising sea levels where I saw a comment that those who thought such claims may be jumping the gun were told that they had lost 1/2 their school to the rising sea levels. (Sorry I forgot where it is so cannot link it.) This is what is known as ignorance gone to seed. I will say that average sea level is probably not too concerning but rather peak sea level as if you get flooded once a year it could be bad.

Re: Can you believe these lying Republican punkass

[DNS-and-BIND]

Why bother to pay down the debt when the Dems are just going to run it up again the next time they get in office? Worse, they'll use the money to buy votes or to prosecute yet more foreign wars. How many did Obama start, 7 in 8 years? He killed more children than all other Nobel Peace Prize winners put together.