crocodile wrote on Aug 14^th, 2019 at 9:50am:


This may be relevant if they were talking about more money they are not, they are just shuffling the deck chairs in order to maximise their own fictitious political credit.

philperth2010 wrote on Aug 14^th, 2019 at 9:55am:


cockadile is the resident LNP village idiot. just ignore it !

Back to the real issue which is the threat of low lying islands and countries being inundated with rising sea level due to climate change and what is Scumo going to do about the LNP's addiction to coal ? Climate denial is not a policy ! They want proper action on climate change not expensive band-aid solutions which ignore the elephant in the room !

Sir lastnail wrote on Aug 15^th, 2019 at 9:23am:


And yet most of the islands have increased in size. Try doing some research.

philperth2010 wrote on Aug 15^th, 2019 at 12:01pm:



Poor petal. Done in by his poor research skills again

"Contacted by Fact Check, Mr Kelly stood by his recorded words and said the claim was based on research from the University of Auckland.

This peer-reviewed study used satellite imagery to measure Tuvalu's changing land area over four decades.

Between 1971 and 2014, it showed, the country grew by more than 73 hectares, or 2.9 per cent.

Each period of the study experienced net increases in land area, including the most recent decade.

Of Tuvalu's individual islands, 73 had increased in land area while 28 had decreased. Just one had eroded entirely.

Tuvalu's population is spread across nine of its largest islands, with about 50 per cent of its people living on Fogafale, in the Funafuti atoll.

These larger islands generally experienced the greatest increases in land size, while Tuvalu's smaller, uninhabited islands fared the worst."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-19/fact-check-is-the-island-nation-tuvalu-gr...

"Sea-level rise simulation suggests that low-lying Pacific islands such as those in Tuvalu, Tokelau and Kiribati are likely to adapt to the effects of climate change rather than simply sink beneath the waves, according to Kiwi researchers. The researchers created 1:50 scale replica of the uninhabited island of Fatato in Tuvalu and submitted the model to rising water levels and mock storm-generated waves. They found that the highest part of the island actually got higher as rising sea levels and strong wave action washed sand and gravel toward it. They say this shows the islands may be more resilient than we thought as they may be able to change shape to adapt to the climate."

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/sea-level-rise-may-not-spell-the-end-for-low-lyi...

So we have satellite mapping and models confirming that.

I didn't bother to read your BBC piece.

BTW - I am not saying islands don't disappear, merely that SLR is not to blame.

philperth2010 wrote on Aug 15^th, 2019 at 1:44pm:



poor petal So obtuse.

lee wrote on Aug 15^th, 2019 at 12:42pm:


Most.

islands will always disappear. They are a part of a dynamic environment. Storm surge etc will do that.

Now if most increase and some decrease - it can't be Sea Level Rise. It is also along the Pacific Plate which causes subsidence in some areas. Again not SLR.

You now get your science from Readers Digest?

The paper the ABC cited is at -

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02954-1

And the later paper  -

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-reef-islands-resilient-climate.html

Go back to drooling over Noddy and BigEars.

lee wrote on Aug 15^th, 2019 at 2:05pm:


Poor snowflake thinks Tuvalu is the only Islands in the Pacific....Only 101 Islands snowflake....The Solomon's has over 1000 Islands under threat....You said most Islands and have once again used bullshit siting only one group of Islands whilst ignoring the rest....How pathetic and typical!!!

The article you posted states the sea level is rising....Were did you come to the conclusion it cannot be sea level rising when that is exactly what is happening....Are you denying sea levels are rising snowflake???

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philperth2010 wrote on Aug 15^th, 2019 at 4:36pm:



Yes petal . That's three peer reviewed studies and you have provided Readers Digest.

So we know you can't count. We know according to you peer review is Readers Digest.

And you want to be taken seriously?