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Flashback FAIL: A 30 year-old climate prediction of 'rising sea levels' proves to be a load of bunkum

Anthony Watts
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Wed, 03 Oct 2018 20:32 UTC

In 1988 there was this prediction via an article in the Canberra Times:

'Sea level is threatening to completely cover' Maldives' 1,196 islands within 30 years —

Well, it's 30 years later, and the Maldives is still there, all 1196 islands. Here's the article:

h/t to Tony Heller

Not only that, other Pacific islands similar to the Maldives, and also said to be threatened by sea level rise have been found to be GROWING in size.

Meanwhile, Maldives is expanding for more tourism. This article from last week says:

Malé International Airport carried out an overall airport expansion at the end of August this year, the expansion of Malé International Airport fully completed a waterproof project, which will soon meet the peak of tourism gold.

The Malé International Airport which is the gateway airport of Maldives is severely constrained by hardware facilities, with an annual throughput of only 4 million passengers.

The airport runway can only take off and land medium-sized passenger aircraft. Maldives Tourism Minister Moussa Zamil said: To achieve the upgrade of the Maldives tourism industry, the prerequisite is to upgrade the airport in Malé, and the airport upgrade construction is the most significant.

So much for them taking the threat of sea level rise seriously.

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Gnostic · 2021-01-14T00:29:15Z

Been waitin thirty years to post this story...

HVACTech · 2021-01-14T01:29:25Z

Gnostic thirty years ago, I began to question the 'Fossil Fuel' theory. which btw, remains a 'theory' to this very day.

Gnostic · 2021-01-14T03:17:55Z

Gnostic thirty years ago, I began to question the 'Fossil Fuel' theory. which btw, remains a 'theory' to this very day.

Yes, reminds of so many other theories. When I look at the vast amount of theories I see we don’t know shite. Kwazy man kwazy

HVACTech · 2021-01-14T03:30:49Z

Gnostic there are 2 types of 'electricity' . AC and DC. there are 2 types of 'heat ' 'sensible and latent'

how fun is it, that I invite query's to my own statements eh?

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balboa schwartz · 2021-01-16T00:34:05Z

HVACTech I had a petroleum geologist confirm to me, 10 or 12 years ago, that the dirty little secret about oil was that it is abiotic, constantly being produced deep in the planet by geologic processes..."but don't tell anyone...(wink wink)"

balboa schwartz · 2021-01-16T00:35:47Z

HVACTech geez....and here I thought there must be, oh, 57 types of electricity.....you know, like genders

HVACTech · 2021-01-16T00:51:45Z

balboa schwartz well, I am thinking that there is plenty of Hydrogen down there. and now that you mention it, carbon as well...Hydro-Carbons. pretty good name eh?

Petroleum = rock oil.

dude, apparently that is secret knowledge now... if you just search for 'petroleum' no reference will come up for 'rock oil'

you have to type in 'petroleum etymology' to get that information..

HVACTech · 2021-01-16T00:58:01Z

balboa schwartz there really are 2 types of heat, sensible and latent . latent heat of vaporization is the basis for all modern cooling systems. best to look it up now eh, while we can still talk?

balboa schwartz · 2021-01-16T01:22:30Z

HVACTech oh man, don't you know that understanding etymology and other languages marks you as.....EDUCATED!!! a THREAT!!

balboa schwartz · 2021-01-16T01:24:56Z

HVACTech I tried to explain this to my mother-in-law one day recently...didn't work.."but how does vaporization make things cooler?" she kind of got the sensible heat thing, because of the lack of phase change, though

HVACTech · 2021-01-16T01:52:43Z

balboa schwartz yah, 'Latent heat' is NOT easy to understand. but it really does exist.

heat pumps are neat.. yes, 'latent heat of vaporization' works in both directions sir. just like in our atmosphere..

it is the phase change that moves the heat. our sun inputs radiant heat energy, (sensible heat) latent heat is what distributes it about.

just to be clear, 'cold' does NOT exist.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-01-16T04:03:49Z

HVACTech Even at Zero K? Or is it that HEAT doesn't exist?

I'm being silly; I agree with you. (E.g., am aware of molecular motion et al.)

We damn sure listen to the same music, my friend.

RC

codis · 2021-01-14T06:33:25Z

Political agendas never cared about facts.

smertzasmert · 2021-01-14T12:22:08Z

timelines difficult

if trends continue ---ice melting in Greenland, arctic, antarctic, there will likely be sea level rise of 1+ meter in this century

balboa schwartz · 2021-01-16T00:31:28Z

smertzasmert does it take up a lot of your time to be this brainwashed?

Joyly · 2021-01-16T01:47:45Z

smertzasmert Well I’m confused: there was a recent report that there was more ice last year ( didn’t by remember which pole).

While I do not think that fossil fuels are causing the seas to rise; I think something is. More research needed. The seas are definitely warmer (and that could be the reason) killing off species of marine life. Kelp, and plankton.

HVACTech · 2021-01-16T02:14:37Z

Joyly 'ice' is a different type of latent heat Love. technically it is 'latent heat of fusion'

yes, I consider what 'heat' is and is not. to be pertinent to the conversation at hand.

when it comes to the earth mother. heat is imputed sensibly via radiant energy.

she distributes this heat in a latent fashion..

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HVACTech · 2021-01-16T03:26:14Z

HVACTech lets have some fun Love..

latent heat of fusion for water is 144 BTU's per pound, latent heat of vaporization is 970.3 btu's per pound.

want to know how you are being deceived?

convert this information to Joules .. and make it understandable.

yes, you have my permission to hate me...

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ReRan · 2021-01-14T22:27:26Z

Remeber Gore saying by 2020 snow would be a thing of the past? It's not.

Rowan Cocoan ·

ReRan Yup. RC

· 2021-01-15T18:47:13Z

Amerikagulag · 2021-01-16T00:16:35Z

Does this mean Gore has to give back his Academy Award?

balboa schwartz · 2021-01-16T00:39:21Z

Amerikagulag only if Greta lets him off the leash (nuck nuck)

Daniel Geery · 2021-01-16T18:33:07Z

Predictions are hard to make. Especially of the future. [Link]

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