Environmental officials warned 30 years ago the Maldives could be completely covered by water due to global warming-induced sea level rise.
That didn’t happen. The Indian Ocean did not swallow the Maldives island chain as predicted by government officials in the 1980s.
In September 1988, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported a “gradual rise in average sea level is threatening to completely cover this Indian Ocean nation of 1196 small islands within the next 30 years,” based on predictions made by government officials.
Then-Environmental Affairs Director Hussein Shihab told AFP “an estimated rise of 20 to 30 centimeters in the next 20 to 40 years could be ‘catastrophic’ for most of the islands, which were no more than a meter above sea level.”
The article went on to suggest the Maldives, along with its 200,000 inhabitants, could “end” sooner than expected if drinking water supplies dry up by 1992 “as predicted.” Today, more than 417,000 people live in the Maldives.
“Call Noah and have him build another Ark,” Daniel Turner, executive director of the pro-energy group Power the Future, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Bring out the Coast Guard. Send all the boogie boards and floaties you can find for the Maldives is going down,” Turner said sarcastically.
The Maldives are among the island nations often held up by United Nations officials as being on the “front-lines” of man-made global warming.
The island nation was among the first to apply for Green Climate Fund aid, but the funding hasn’t been flowing, according to The New York Times.
“That’s too long to wait,” Maldives energy and environment minister Thoriq Ibrahim told The Times last year. “There’s no use having a fund somewhere if you can’t access it quickly.”
The Maldives are indeed low-lying islands with its highest point only reaching about eight feet above sea level. But obviously, decades-old warnings the Maldives were on the verge of being swallowed by the seas didn’t pan out.
A recent study projected low-lying reef islands, like the Maldives, could become “uninhabitable” by the middle of the 21st Century because too much sea water will get into freshwater drinking supplies.
The study projects “sea-level rise and wave dynamics over reefs will lead to the annual wave-driven overwash of most atoll islands by the mid-21st century.”
However, other research suggests the Maldives and other coral islands may actually be expanding, not sinking into the sea.
New Zealand researchers published a study earlier this year based on aerial photos and satellite images of Pacific islands over the last four decades that found most atolls they examined were increasing in size.
The results echoed a 2015 study by the same lead author that also found coral island expansion. Study lead author and scientist Paul Kench told The New Scientist “that the Maldives seems to be showing a similar effect.”
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Simple refutation of insane Alarmist claims. Many 10,s of millions of dollars are being funneled into the Maldives to increase it’s viability as a tourist resort. Bankers are not known to risk loans to ‘sinking’ enterprises.
And just who was the idiot who said Guam was going to tip over from too many people? i mean they made that stupid movie WATER WORLD where Kevin Kosner plays some idiot named Mariner with stupid gills and webbing between his fingers and swims like Dolphin and looks like a total Baffoon
Time and reality are just not the scary global warming industry friend . No ice free Arctic no disappearing Maldives and the Chinese are so confident they are making man made islands to use as military bases in the South China sea . Why would you blow $billions if you thought it was going to be washed away like a sand castle ?
I would like the alarmist jerks to post
every successful prediction they have ever made
without resorting to fictional computer simulations
as proof.
NONE of these jerks can come up with so much as ONE !
NONE of these jerks can demonstrate that there is a GHE !
Thermal infrared spectrography and spectroscopy admits of only
one gas showing any significant degree of heat retention or reflection.
WATER VAPOR
We all know what heavy concentrations of water vapor in the atmosphere
results in !
Fog?
In the old days they stoned false prophets
Now they get a Nobel Prize ….!
And Al Bore said the Arctic would be Ice Free by now its increasing its amount of ice
I remember Maldives government representatives at the COP meetings making urgent pleas saying the survival of their nation depended on strong action on the climate. Now it is time to listen to the please of the poor who are hit by higher energy bills, it is time to listen to the pleas of those who have had their power cut off because they can’t afford the high price, and it is time to listen to those who have lost their jobs due to the climate movement.