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24/03/24

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Originally posted by Tarvold: ↑

Why are you fixating on cyclones?

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Because cyclones/typhoons are classed as “extreme weather events” be they category one or five.

Even you might agree that not all storms are extreme weather events?

Not to mention that the CC crazy bed wetter’s have been claiming that mmco2 will cause more cyclones with higher intensities since the 1980’s and yet our history shows the exact opposite.
Less cyclones and less intense cyclones over the last 40 odd years.

Originally posted by Bananabender1: ↑

Some light reading for you Zipper if education is something you embrace. If not then you cannot be helped.

What about other Pacific islands?In his speech, Mr Kelly went on to say "sinking Pacific islands" were getting bigger.Simon Albert, an expert in marine ecology and climate change at the University of Queensland, told Fact Check that the threat to low-lying Pacific islands was not the possibility of sinking but of erosion.He said that although Tuvalu's experience was largely true of the Pacific, the Solomon Islands offered a bleaker window into the future. There, sea levels had risen much faster than the global average.Between 1994 and 2014, according to Dr Albert's research, the Solomons experienced sea level rises averaging 7-10mm per year.Meanwhile, between 1993 and 2018, the global average was 3.2mm per year.While Tuvalu recorded a total rise of 15cm over four decades, the Solomons managed that in just two.Dr Albert said that in parts of the Solomons, rising seas had combined with wave exposure to cause "dramatic coastal erosion leading to recession of coastlines and in some cases the loss of entire islands".His research has shown that some of the Solomons' uninhabited reef islands, similar in structure to those in Tuvalu, had completely disappeared due to erosion.The country's volcanic islands, generally larger and steeper than atoll or reef islands, had also experienced coastal erosion. As a result, local indigenous communities — some of which had inhabited the islands for over 100 years — had been destroyed or displaced.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-19/fact-check-is-the-island-nation-tuvalu-growing/10627318

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So you’re back to saying that the ocean is rising faster in some places than others?

I remember reading about the Solomon Islands, specifically the few that sunk/have lost a great deal of dry land.

The one common factor is that their coral reefs have been severely compromised by human activities (specifically to their locality).

Blasting and poisoning the surrounding reefs to be more specific.
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