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4 Jul 05 - The tiny country of Tuvalu is not
cooperating with global warming models. In the early 1990s, scientists
warned that the Pacific coral atoll of nine islands - only 12 feet above
sea level at their highest point - would vanish within decades, swamped by
rising seas. Sea levels were supposedly rising at the rate of 1.5 inches
per year.
Understandably, the residents of
Tuvalu were concerned, so Tuvalu's official meteorological agency began
measuring sea levels.
Ten years later they were shocked to discover that sea levels had fallen
2.5 inches during that time. Similar sea-level declines have been
recorded in Nauru and the Solomon Islands. (London Telegraph, 6
Aug 2000)
Tuvalu somehow “lost” those record, and has started the measurement
process again.
Update:
Tuvalu sea levels STILL falling
4 Dec 09 - All this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal
scare story, says Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner,
formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level
Change.
When running the International Commission on Sea Level Change, Mörner launched a special project on the Maldives, whose leaders have for 20 years been calling for vast sums of international aid to stave off disaster. Six times he and his expert team visited the islands, to confirm that the sea has not risen for half a century. Before announcing his findings, he offered to show the inhabitants a film explaining why they had nothing to worry about. The government refused to let it be shown.
Similarly in Tuvalu, where local
leaders have been calling for the inhabitants to be evacuated for 20
years, the sea has if anything dropped in recent decades.
(italics added)
If there is one scientist who knows more about sea
levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and
physicist Nils-Axel Mörner. His findings are based on "going into
the field to observe what is
actually happening in the real world".
See
Rising sea levels 'the greatest lie ever told'
Sea levels
are also falling in the Maldives! (in the Indian Ocean)
See Sea
levels are falling!
Sea levels are also falling in the Arctic Ocean
See Arctic Sea Level Falling