4 thoughts on “ABC confirms Tuvalu is growing not sinking”
I give Fact Check a lot of credit for publishing it.
I liked these facts –
“Between 1971 and 2014, it showed, the country grew by more than 73 hectares, or 2.9 per cent.
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.”
and this –
“Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga criticised the research, claiming it had not considered the habitability of the new land area.
But Professor Kench told Fact Check this was not the case:
“These islands are essentially deposits of gravel and sand,” he said.”
His previous research demonstrated similar growth in the atoll islands of Kiribati.
Yes Jeff. very surprising. A first impulse would normally be that the “fact checking” unit had slipped up.
Bob, I think their initial motivation and hope was to prove Craig Kelly was wrong, but once they had done all the hours of work, they had to use it.
Further tips for ABC Fact Check investigations:
– Are polar bears going extinct, or are there far more of them than 40 years ago?
– Is the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at an all-time high, or has it been more than ten times higher during the history of the earth?
– Did global warming theory pioneer Svante Arrhenius think warming would be a good thing or a bad thing?
– Do IPCC models consistently predict a “tropical hotspot” in the mid-troposphere, and is this hotspot observed in reality or not?
– Have the five IPCC assessment reports since 1990 shown a consistent tendency to overpredict increases in carbon dioxide and methane, and in temperatures and sea levels?
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Primarily exposing faulty methodologies behind global temperature trend compilations
I give Fact Check a lot of credit for publishing it.
I liked these facts –
“Between 1971 and 2014, it showed, the country grew by more than 73 hectares, or 2.9 per cent.
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.”
and this –
“Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga criticised the research, claiming it had not considered the habitability of the new land area.
But Professor Kench told Fact Check this was not the case:
“These islands are essentially deposits of gravel and sand,” he said.”
His previous research demonstrated similar growth in the atoll islands of Kiribati.
Yes Jeff. very surprising. A first impulse would normally be that the “fact checking” unit had slipped up.
Bob, I think their initial motivation and hope was to prove Craig Kelly was wrong, but once they had done all the hours of work, they had to use it.
Further tips for ABC Fact Check investigations:
– Are polar bears going extinct, or are there far more of them than 40 years ago?
– Is the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at an all-time high, or has it been more than ten times higher during the history of the earth?
– Did global warming theory pioneer Svante Arrhenius think warming would be a good thing or a bad thing?
– Do IPCC models consistently predict a “tropical hotspot” in the mid-troposphere, and is this hotspot observed in reality or not?
– Have the five IPCC assessment reports since 1990 shown a consistent tendency to overpredict increases in carbon dioxide and methane, and in temperatures and sea levels?