“Climate Change Castaways” Have Long Years To Wait

by William Teach | January 7, 2012 8:44 am

This story jumped up and hit me when I took my morning perusal of Memeorandum[1], seeing what the big stories of the day are, so, I didn’t have to hunt around for an unhinged Warmist story

(Sydney Morning Herald[2]) THE President of what could be the first country in the world lost to climate change has urged Australia to prepare for a mass wave of climate refugees seeking a new place to live.

The Maldivian President, Mohamed Nasheed, said his government was considering Australia as a possible new home if the tiny archipelago disappears beneath rising seas.

”It is increasingly becoming difficult to sustain the islands, in the natural manner that these islands have been,” he told the Herald in an interview in Male, the Maldives capital.

In other words, a bit of hysterical hyperventilation designed to produce a shakedown, because the Earth has apparently been stagnant for the last 4.5 billion years…..say, how did the Maldives come into creation in the first place? What’s that? You say that the sea level was much higher, thereby allowing corals to create the 1200 islands, then the seas retreated? And have done that many times? Well, blind me with science.

Eighty per cent of the Maldivian land mass – a string of more than 1200 islands, 200 inhabited, running 750 kilometres north-south in the Indian Ocean – is less than a metre above sea level. The highest point in the entire country is 2.4 metres above sea level, and already, 14 islands have had to be abandoned because of massive erosion by the sea.

Well, yeah, they are islands. They erode. The ocean is always doing something. That’s the nature of the planet. Nothing anthropogenic about it.

Tim Blair[3] points out that a) President Nasheed just attended a ceremony to make the construction of a new airport (hey, aren’t planes bad for globull warming?) and b) they sure like themselves some heroin in the Maldives. Also, the Maldives have a rising Islamist issue.

Oh, and as The Hockey Schtick[4] points out, sea level rise is pretty much within the norm of the last 7 thousand years.

Crossed at Pirate’s Cove[5]. Follow me on Twitter @WilliamTeach[6].

Endnotes:
  1. Memeorandum: http://www.memeorandum.com/120106/p109#a120106p109
  2. Sydney Morning Herald: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-change-castaways-consider-move-to-australia-20120106-1pobf.html
  3. Tim Blair: http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/global_warming_causes_junkie_muslims
  4. The Hockey Schtick: http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-paper-shows-sea-level-rise-of-less.html
  5. Pirate’s Cove: http://www.thepiratescove.us/
  6. @WilliamTeach: http://twitter.com/WilliamTeach

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