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2018 Nature study shows Tuvalu *increased* in size despite sea level rise and 'will persist for habitation over next century'
Cover of Time with UN Secretary-General in water outside Tuvalu 'Our Sinking Planet'
time.com/longform/sinki…
nature.com/articles/s4146…
2018 Nature study shows Tuvalu *increased* in size despite sea level rise and 'will persist for habitation over next century'
Cover of Time with UN Secretary-General in water outside Tuvalu 'Our Sinking Planet'
time.com/longform/sinki…
nature.com/articles/s4146…
Story talks about all the 'vulnerable nations' like Kiribati and the Marshall Islands
Both have seen *increasing* land area
Indeed, lastest meta-overview shows "no atoll exhibited a decrease in land area over the past decades to century"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
Both have seen *increasing* land area
Indeed, lastest meta-overview shows "no atoll exhibited a decrease in land area over the past decades to century"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
How is this possible?
Bc small islands are dynamic:
Storms breaking up surrounding coral, washing up on beach, slightly increasing/rising area
Sea level rise reducing area
(& humans both increasing area and destroying it through destabilization)
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
Bc small islands are dynamic:
Storms breaking up surrounding coral, washing up on beach, slightly increasing/rising area
Sea level rise reducing area
(& humans both increasing area and destroying it through destabilization)
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
Maybe, just maybe, Time Magazine ought to tell us, that *actually*, these islands are not disappearing under the sea, and that they will likely 'persist for habitation over next century'
But of course, scary alarmism sells better
But of course, scary alarmism sells better
