In 2003, Nils-Axel Mörner and his colleagues (see below) pub-
lished a well-documented paper showing that sea levels in the
Maldives have fallen substantially – fallen! – in the last 30 years.
I find it curious that we haven't heard about this.
"The Maldives in the central Indian Ocean consist of some
1,200
individual islands grouped in about 20 larger atolls," says Mörner.
In-as-much as the islands rise only three to seven feet above sea
level, they have been condemned by the IPCC to flooding in the
near future.
Mörner disagrees with this scenario. "In our study of
the coastal
dynamics and the geomorphology of the shores," writes Mörner,
"we were unable to detect any traces of a recent sea level rise.
On the contrary, we found quite clear morphological indications
of a recent fall in sea level."
Mörner’s group found that sea levels stood about 60 cm
higher
around A.D. 1150 than today, and more recently, about 30 cm
higher than today.
"From the shape and freshness," Mörner says, "one
would assume
that the sea level fall took place in the last 50 years, or so."
In the last 50 years!
I find it difficult to understand how the IPCC
could have missed
this information - unless they did it deliberately.
All they had to do was ask the locals.
"Local people report that the dhonis (local fishing boats) could
pass
straight across theMaduvvare Falhus thila in the 1970s and 1980s,"
Mörner reports, "whilst they in the last 15 years have had to make
a detour around the thila, because it is now too shallow. The thila
has not grown, so it must be the sea that has fallen."
"In the IPCC scenarios," Mörner concludes, "the
Maldives were
condemned to disappear in the near future." "Our documentation
of actual field evidence contradicts this hypothesis."
From "New perspectives for the future of the
Maldives"
Nils-Axel Mörner, Michael Tooley, and Göran Possnert,
Global and Planetary Change, Vol. 40, Issues 1-2,
Jan 2004, pp 177-182
Nils-Axel Mörner, Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics,
Stockholm University, Sweden
Michael Tooley, Geography and Archaelogy,
University of Durham, Durham, UK
Göran Possnert, The Angstrom Laboratory,
Uppsala University, Sweden
Read entire paper (for a fee) at:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
See also:
Sea levels
are also falling in Tuvalu (in the Pacific Ocean)
See
Falling Sea
Levels
.
Sea levels are also falling in the Arctic Ocean
See Arctic Sea Level Falling
.
Sea levels are
also falling in the Atlantic Ocean
See
Atlantic Sea Level Falling
.
.
Claim that sea level is rising is total fraud
So says Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner, head of the Paleogeophysics
and
Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden.
See
Rising Sea Level
Claim a Total Fraud
.
.
See also Antarctic Ice Sheet
Growing – Sea Levels Falling
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