I find your user ID to be offensive......

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-06-03/pacific-islands-growing-not-sinking/851738

"Climate scientists have expressed surprise at findings that many low-lying Pacific islands are growing, not sinking.Islands in Tuvalu,

Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are among those which have grown, largely due to coral debris, land reclamation and

sediment."

http://www.bbc.com/news/10222679

Again, you can relax band......the islands are growing.

Every reason you give to be alarmed...... seems to be false.

Surely you meant to point out this little factoid from your link:

Adelaide University climate scientist Professor Barry Brook says he is surprised by the findings.

"Sea levels are obviously rising - I think in the short term [the study] suggests that there's maybe more time to do something about the problem than we'd first anticipated," he said.

"But the key problem is that sea level rise is likely to accelerate much beyond what we've seen in the 20th century."

Naomi Thirobaux, from Kiribati, has studied the shape of Pacific islands for her PhD and says no-one should be lulled into thinking erosion and inundation is not taking its toll and displacing people from their land.

"In a populated area what would happen was that if it's eroding, a few metres would actually displace people," she said.

"In a populated place people can't move back or inland because there's hardly any place to move into, so that's quite dramatic."

Both Dr Kench and Dr Brook and scientists agree further rises in sea levels pose a significant danger to the livelihoods of people living in Tuvalu, Kirabati and the Federated States of Micronesia.

And, yet.........

The people of Kiribati, a group of islands in the Pacific ocean particularly exposed to climate change, now own a possible refuge elsewhere. President Anote Tong has recently finalised the purchase of 20 sq km on Vanua Levu, one of the Fiji islands, about 2,000km away.

The Church of England has sold a stretch of land mainly covered by dense forest for $8.77m. "We would hope not to put everyone on [this] one piece of land, but if it became absolutely necessary, yes, we could do it," Tong told the Associated Press. Kiribati has a population of about 110,000 scattered over 33 small, low-lying islands extending over a total area of 3.5m sq km.

In 2009 the Maldives were the first to raise the possibility of purchasing land in another country in anticipation of being gradually submerged. At the time the government looked at options in India and Sri Lanka.

Now Kiribati has taken action. "Kiribati is just the first on a list which could get longer as time passes," says Ronald Jumeau, Seychelles ambassador at the United Nations, who took part in the international negotiations on climate change in Bonn last month.   http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/01/kiribati-climate-change-fiji-vanua-levu

One of the big problems in Kiribati is that rising sea water is contaminating fresh water sources.......you can have acres and acres of coral beaches, but without water...........all you're left with is the "elixir of life'...........CO2

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

 

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/10222679

 

Again, you can relax band......the islands are growing.

 

Every reason you give to be alarmed...... seems to be false.

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Great info and thanks for posting.  The warmists and greedy self interest claque can see their meal ticket, their free ride,  disappearing right before their eyes.

The carbon capture, wind turbines and all the other useless "global Warming" hysteria claptrap foisted on the poor taxpayers so that a few could become wealthy for not doing anything.

They don't really want to hear it. The'd rather stick to personal insult.

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-06-03/pacific-islands-growing-not-sinking/851738

 

"Climate scientists have expressed surprise at findings that many low-lying Pacific islands are growing, not sinking.Islands in Tuvalu,

 

Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are among those which have grown, largely due to coral debris, land reclamation and

 

sediment."

 

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Well, I see islands in the middle of Port Phillip bay that grow and shrink all the time, depending on a variety of factors.

And the same applies in other places.

Once an island is formed, it does tend to attract more sand, coral etc.

this one

Why do you find this   "I find your user ID to be offensive......"

??????

That is the most pathetic post I think I have seen on here.

Why do you find this   "I find your user ID to be offensive......"

He is offended by the word "deniers".......I am offended by his user ID.

"in India's part of the delta. "

Er, Delta's are never ending shifting sands and Mud, like all estuaries.

They are a bit different to Islands in the middle of the ocean !