But they can sure act like one:
From the BBC: Maldives government complains of spoof atlas omission
The government of the Maldives has complained after the London Daily Telegraph website carried a satirical blog post saying the island nation is to be omitted from the Times Atlas of the World.
The supposed omission was said to be due to impending climate change.
The low-lying islands of the Maldives are at risk from rising sea levels.
The spoof blog post was taken seriously by several media outlets in the Maldives.
The Telegraph blog post was written by a climate change sceptic, James Delingpole.
Oh, the hilarity!
Here’s some WUWT posts on the joke that is the Maldives concern over sea level rise:
Despite popular opinion and calls to action, the Maldives are not being overrun by sea level rise
Oh and the best indicator yet, the government there is building 11 new airports
11 new airports to be constructed in Maldives
Obviously, they need them to evacuate people from the sea level rise threat /sarc
Follow the money.
h/t to WUWT reader ANH
Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud
http://www.climatechangefacts.info/ClimateChangeDocuments/NilsAxelMornerinterview.pdf
Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner is the head of the Paleogeophysics and
Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden.
He is past president (1999-2003) of the INQUA Commission
on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, and
leader of the Maldives Sea Level Project. Dr. Mörner has
been studying the sea level and its effects on coastal areas for
some 35 years.
Dr Nils Axel Morner :
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/05/21/sea-level-rises-what-sea-level-rises/
“Morner was a former reviewer on the IPCC report and when he was first made a reviewer he said he was “astonished to find that not one of their 22 contributing authors on sea levels was a sea level specialist: not one.”
It just keeps getting funnier! hahahahahaha Diminishing beaches? How about diminishing gene pool?
The Maldives are not sinking says:
Ok we get it, don’t thread bomb
Peer reviewed scientific paper, by Dr Morner, showing that Maldives sea levels are not rising:
“New perspectives for the future of the Maldives”
http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/MornerEtAl2004.pdf
“Novel prospects for the Maldives do not include a condemnation to future flooding. The people of the Maldives have, in the past, survived a higher sea level of about 50–60 cm. The present trend lack signs of a sea level rise. On the contrary, there is firm morphological evidence of a significant sea level fall in the last 30 years. This sea level fall is likely to be the effect of increased evaporation and an intensification of the NE-monsoon over the central Indian Ocean.”
And the word ‘gullible’ is being removed from Maldivian editions of the Oxford English Dictionary. 😉
Ok, Anthony.
I’ve done my bit. Thanks and enjoy.
I think that article is the work of a genius. Because when people starts looking into it….they realise that it is not sinking after all !
And if the Atlas was to be true to its cause, it should really remove it… So the consequence to the Maldives, thanks to themselves trying to exploit the Warmista’s cause, would be to be removed from Atlas’es, but not sinking….
LOL – sounds like something you would see on The Daily Mash. Good on ya, Delingpole!
No sense of humour. All that worrying about climate crocodiles under the bed. Cannot hide the emotional consequences of overdosing on cortisol.
Another silly one today: Maldives Carbon Neutral plan, EXCLUDES air travel
Guardian: Maldives crowdsources 2020 carbon neutral plan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/22/maldives-help-carbon-neutrality-plan
Country launches website seeking help from world’s top experts on how to achieve carbon neutrality by 2020
😉 😉 the exclusions
Guardian: “Also excluded is air travel, which is crucial to Maldives’ tourism-based economy but – in the absence of realistic decarbonisation options – is not covered by the carbon neutrality plan.”
So, even as the islands are supposed drowing because of CO2 emissions, the Maldives tourist industry is EXPANDING, those 11 new airports are for EXTRA people, probably Chinese..
China becomes Maldives’ largest source of tourists
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/7378362.html
“The Maldives received 120,000 Chinese tourists in 2010, representing an increase of 96 percent from a year earlier and marking that China has become its largest source country of foreign tourists for the first time, Mariyam Zulfa, Maldives’ minister of Tourism Arts and Culture, said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency on May 11. ”
It’s the economy first, even whilst ‘sinking’
I’m afraid the Maldives are sinking under the weight of their newsmedia stupidity. We should count our luck and send supportive messages to all our news outlets, who keep us afloat thanks to their tireless pursuit of fairness in reporting and the truth.
Oh wait a moment…
ps isn’t a tad too much for you to put TWO links to WUWT in the right-side column, under “Skeptical views”? 😎
Yet at the Toronto International Film Festival, the propaganda documentary on the Maldives was awarded the Public Prize… Says a lot about the attendees of the TIFF… LOL
omnologos says:
September 22, 2011 at 2:05 pm
ps isn’t a tad too much for you to put TWO links to WUWT in the right-side column, under “Skeptical views”? 😎
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It just means WUWT is doubly skeptical…… 8^)
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James Delingpole really shouldn’t make jokes about Times Atlas of the World omitting the Maldives and Tuvalu 😉
April Fools’ Day or not. What characterizes a good joke is that smart people would have the ability to spot that this is satire. This is not the case with his joke in Daily Telegraph. Given the history of IPCC his story might easily have been true.
LMAO Every time I read about the Maldives sinking, it reminds me of this…
“However, he added that Maldivians had as strong a sense of humour as anyone.”
`Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor – even people who don’t.’ Vinnie Antonelli (Steve Martin)
The Maldives could well be sinking but I guess digging out sea level materials to build high rise towns has nothing to do with lowering anything.
Perhaps we should pay to perform a real experiment – Move everybody off the reefs and check, periodically, whether or not the reefs start to grow back once they cease to be part of a desperate, middle of nowhere, economy.
Can’t help but see the same “give us more money” scam in 2070 where the “president” speaks of “sea level rise” from his isolated 5000m ocean tower constructed of limestone blocks cemented together with coral sand.
While I don’t doubt for a minute that garbage is piling up on the islands faster than the sea rises, I can make no sense at all of Morner’s explanation for a drop in sea level. It would not matter if you dropped a teraton of mercury in the Indian Ocean, as long as it’s connected to the world ocean it will try to maintain a gravitational equilbrium not far off the geoid. How is denser, saltier water supposed to affect sea level, when it will only sink and be replaced by surface water from elsewhere?
We’ve seen other gaffs in theory by Morner: his claim that LOD influences geological processes and his claim that changes in LOD due to GIA result in lunar precession. I’ll accept his conclusions regarding a falling sea level , but not his explanation for it. –AGF
Oops. Make that lunar RECESSION.
It’s hard for the Maldives to take a joke when it’s the punchline