A Google search for kiribati drown produces about 2,740,000 results.
This is a heart rending story. Too bad no one reporting on this has an IQ over 30, and they can’t look up the tide gauge data for themselves. Sea level has been falling at Kiribati over the last 20 years.
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Numbers are so difficult, so confusing for the Warmistas. They prefer comfy fur and fearmongering.
faux fur – since they are all PETA followers
OT but Steven and others will like the cartoon in the Economist’s US section http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21590369-if-barack-obama-cannot-fix-his-health-reform-his-second-term-will-be-wretched-emergency
rending not rendering
Kiribati has been on to this scam since the earliest days. As soon as they smelled a dollar or two in the offing, they were on to it – mostly at the urging of “climate scientists” who stood to benefit from all the research money that would come their way:
Tourism must face up to climate change
And if sea levels were to rise by 1 m in the next century, Kiribati and Tuvalu would simply disappear beneath the waves. Dr Bull said there was an urgent need for scientific research into the effect of climate change on tourism, as well as planning by government policy-makers for alternative jobs for tourism workers.”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/131179659
Feb 1990
So what I hear you saying is we should expect adjustments in the tide gauge data any minute now.
Kiribati has 21 underwater airports in a nation with a population of about 105,000 which means 1 airport for every 5,000 people. 🙂 Boy, these chaps must be planning for the future where there is none.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_Kiribati
Why can’t they use eco-friendly sailing boats to get from island to island? Must they fly? 🙁 When are they going to take action to tackle climate change?
Good point… If they really believed in Global Warming … They’d show some leadership and halt the CO2 blowing Jumbo Jet flights destroying their tiny Island… But they’re not, and the islands aren’t being destroyed…
But what if sea levels rise? Then they are doomed again and again. We must act now! :O
If these islands are about to disappear and soon why it so difficult to get real estate on them? Land prices on all the small Pacific island states are outrageously high but Tuvalu and Kiribati have none to sell.
If the politicians and populations truly believe that their land is doomed to inundation why don’t they sell? They’d get good prices, the the best you get is leased built on land.
I search for any property, on either of these two islands, to buy about once every 3 months. In 3 years NOTHING, not one square foot is for sale!
The Maldives is building 5 new airports and many tourist class hotels. They have all been specially waterproofed.
I saw that, and they do sell atolls there but starting prices $2.5 million and upward.
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/areas/maldives
Maybe it’s their concrete sea walls causing problems. The islands aren’t sinking, they are having problems due to human interference which has nothing to do with co2.
Greenies do not plant trees. That would be a free carbon sink and we can’t have that.
In fairness, Christmas Island is hundreds of miles from the island group (the Gilbert Islands) where most of Kiribati’s people live. Are there any similar figures for, say, Tarawa?
True. There could be a bulge.
Unfortunately, Tarawa data is outdated and of brief duration:
http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/1381.php
http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/1579.php
http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/1739.php
Why yes, there is.
Tide Guage: http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/1739.php
Seal Level (from CU): http://sealevel.colorado.edu/content/interactive-sea-level-time-series-wizard?dlon=172.985077&dlat=1.325967&map=v&fit=n&smooth=n&days=60
Not “drowning” either
Kiribati clever. You people dumb.
Kiribati got money. You people none.
Kiribati not so clever’ we got no money.
Kiribati super clever; we got president with mui big printing press.
Clever scheme for poor nations to get rich nations (evil, have “expropriated the Earth’s atmosphere”) to pay climate reparations through the U.N.
What a great find… Well done Stephen…
All these Alarmists scream sea level rise… While the closest tide gauge shows none… What more does any rational person need to know?? But now that this data has been put out there, expect NOAA or some other Agency to take over and “adjust” the data to show sea level rise despite the facts…
So fr, they have tried, but had only a little effect on the satellites.
What can we learn from this: That MSM recycling the same crap over and over again results in a high number of Google hits.
On the other hand:
Try Google “United Nations” and the word “Corruption” and Kiribati is wiped out.
with about 14,499,848 results (0.24 seconds)
In 1995 Kiribati unilaterally changed the international dateline to put all its territory in the same hemisphere. By also changing their sea level data they could lift the whole country a few meters out of the water. The data adjustment specialists at NOAA should be able to assist them with such a routine task.
Too bad no one reporting on this has an IQ over 30
Din’t exaggerate. The threshold for reporters is ……………………………………. 1
Whip out your google earth. Look up Betio, Bairiki, and Bonriki.
It is self evident that these people are absolutely dependent on fossil fuels for survival.
I Google-searched “kiribati drown” and got “only” 1,860,000 results.
Christmas Island is a long ways from the rest of Kiribati, try Fanufuti to see the sea level rise:
http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/1452.php
Tuvalu isn’t sinking either.