The New York Times is flummoxed that the Maldives haven't sunk as predicted. Tony Heller weighed in on this last year pointing out the only thing drowning is the public with the media reporting fake news and junk science.
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The ice sheets are thickening, but the global elites will somehow convince us to give up more in order to prevent a potential catastrophe. The precautionary principle on steroids. Fortunately, The Times recognized that the atoll islands could map out a strategy to prepare for any changes in climate like sea level rise.
Though the research suggests that atolls aren't about to wash away entirely, it hardly means they have nothing to worry about. Global warming is putting coral reefs under severe strain. If, say, the ice sheets melted faster than expected, then sea-level rise could accelerate sharply.
Even so, scientists say, the revelation that atoll islands can adjust naturally to rising seas means the people who live on them have an opportunity to figure out how to cope with their changing environment. It means they have other options besides the most drastic one: abandoning their homelands altogether.
"I'm confident that there'll be islands in the Maldives" 50 or 100 years from now, one of the researchers on the team, Paul Kench, told me while we were on Dhigulaabadhoo. "They're not going to look like these islands; they're going to be different. But there will be land here. To me, that's the challenge: How do you coexist with the change that's coming?"
Adaptation is something humans have done for millions of years, but don't tell that to the climate cult. In the meantime, the Maldives didn't sink because sea levels aren't rising and the global climate cult has egg on its collective face yet again.
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