Note:
Amazing
photographs
follow the
article !
BACKGROUND:
Sea levels have been
rising for about 20,000
years, since the peak
of the last glaciation.
Sea level is up
about 400 feet
in those years.
Perhaps
a few inches
of the 400 feet
rise were
caused by
global warming,
from humans
burning
fossil fuels
-- no one
knows
for sure.
SUMMARY:
Back in 2009,
Republic of
Maldives President
Mohamed Nasheed
may have been
the first world leader
to request financial
"reparations",
through the U.N.,
for anticipated
future flooding,
due to sea level rise,
from human-caused
climate change.
The Maldives islands
did "get" lots of money --
far more than they could
have imagined in 2009 !
But not UN handouts --
they got a decade
of huge investments,
building new resorts
on the islands !
DETAILS
If sea levels
actually rose
as fast as
the always
inaccurate
UN claimed
in 2000,
then many
evacuation flights
for the region’s
200,000 inhabitants
would be needed
over the
next decade,
or two, before
rising sea levels
submerged
everything,
including the
two-mile-long
sea level runway,
at its brand new
$400 million
international
airport.
Meanwhile,
back to reality:
Global sea levels
have been rising
at a relatively
constant rate,
of six to nine
inches per century,
without acceleration,
since the mid-1800s.
During the December 2019
Madrid COP-25, a letter
presented by Chile’s
environmental minister
Carolina Schmidt
called for
"the creation of a
comprehensive
financing facility,
including
debt relief, for
developing countries
experiencing such
[climate change]
disasters."
Supported by
more than
150 signatories,
the proposal
argued that
the new fund
should be financed
at the rate of about
$50 billion annually,
by 2022, and
$300 billion annually,
by 2030.
That money
would be donated
by wealthy countries,
in combination
with global taxes on
financial transactions,
international air travel,
and fossil fuels.
"Knowing" the Maldives
will soon be underwater,
why have rich investors
been building resorts there,
at an unbelievable rate ?
Resorts that are meant
to stay above sea level !
Why would rich people
be so careless with their
money ?
Well, maybe they are
not so careless
-- but are smart enough
to ignore climate alarmists ?
Research conducted
by University of Auckland,
New Zealand scientists,
between 1971 and 2014,
indicated that the Maldives,
and other coral island
land areas in the region,
are actually getting larger
— not shrinking.
