For decades it has been an indisputable, hard and fast, “scientific” fact that the Maldives and other low-lying islands are being reclaimed by the ocean, and that the complete submersion of the islands due to rising sea levels was imminent, all caused by man-made global warming, of course. Well at least that is what the government / media / educational complexes have been propagandizing for four decades.
To deny this assertion about the Maldives’ awful fate made one not only a “climate denier”, but also a “science denier.” Well, I have long been proud to identify as a “climate denier,” and as one who detests politically-mandated “science,” I have also been a proud, junk-science denier.
Finally, however, after decades of the Maldives refusing to sink below the waterline as long prophesied, the climatistas have had to acknowledge that the Maldives are not only not sinking, but their land mass is actually growing. This is from the New York Times last week:
Then, not very long ago, researchers began sifting through aerial images and found something startling. They looked at a couple dozen islands first, then several hundred, and by now close to 1,000. They found that over the past few decades, the islands’ edges had wobbled this way and that, eroding here, building there. By and large, though, their area hadn’t shrunk. In some cases, it was the opposite: They grew. The seas rose, and the islands expanded with them.
By the way, “the seas rose” by just a few centimeters over the past few decades, if NOAA can even be trusted to be honest about those measurements. But remember, we were promised in the 1980s and 1990s that seas would have risen several feet by now. OK, but back to the fact that the islands are now expanding, and the climate hustlers are in a bind because their nightmare scenario is not playing out as promised.
Scientists have come to understand some but not all of the reasons for this. Which is why a team of them recently converged in the Maldives, on an island they’d spend weeks outfitting with instruments and sensors and cameras.
Whatever was going on, it clearly wasn’t as simple as oceans rise, islands wash away.
Yet we were told that a near-unanimous consensus of scientists agreed that the future was as simple as ”oceans rise, islands wash away.”
In other words, “scientists” recommending de-carbonization as a cure for the “climate crisis” have acknowledged that they don’t understand what they’re currently talking about, and more importantly, that they NEVER knew what they were talking about. At best it was all a poorly reasoned hypothesis that served the interests of politicians and globalists pushing for command and control of all human activity. Stating authoritatively that these islands were about to drown when that was not a scientifically known truth proves it all to be a massive fraud. We were lied to, and they called it science. That makes me a proud “science denier” when it comes to this religio-cultist “science.”
Rest assured, this being the NY Times, that this article still gets around to stating the need for leaders to come up with a solution to a climate problem that they can’t actually specify, other than that there are a growing number of inhabitants on the islands, and that people are an affront to nature. Therefore, they are still predicting an apocalyptic intersection of people and climate change at some future date in the Maldives, and therefore action of some sort must be taken.
“They’ve got a bit of time, but they need to be thinking about it quickly,” Dr. Kench said. “To me, that’s the challenge: How do you coexist with the change that’s coming?”
Finally, here is a quick look back at some of the awful propaganda and fear-mongering that has spread about the ocean reclaiming island nations.
The Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported in 1988 about the Maldives that “A gradual rise in average sea level is threatening to completely cover this Indian Ocean nation of 1196 small islands within the next 30 years, according to authorities.”
Not only were island nations about to be submerged, but the media made it clear that it was selfish westerners like you and me that were causing all this misery.
“You’re Making This Island Disappear” [CNN – June 2015]
“…the United States is the largest aggregate polluter of carbon dioxide. So why not hold the United States liable? Maybe climate change is the new nuclear testing. Slow moving, and less intentional. But just as threatening.”
This is a despicable slander, based on a politically-influenced lie. But this is also the propaganda that your kids have been getting in their education, and that we all must suffer through with government and media.
One more thing, now that the “scientific” prediction of island nations being submerged due to climate change has been officially retired, it should also be assumed that every other climate “fact” and prediction put forth by the climate cultists is as fraudulent as the Maldives story. Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus. The “climate crisis” is a hoax that has reached its expiration date.
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