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
Didn’t these parasites bring this on themselves with the underwater stunt (coupled with a vague demand for reparations).
RAVEENDRAN NARAYANAN has his heart in the right place. Without increased efforts to save the ice shelves in Antarctica, the Antarctic polar bears will die off.
“Here’s some WUWT posts…”
*sigh*
Well if the Maldives is becoming inundated by the sea, generally it is because they like Tuvalu have interfered by taking sand from the foreshores to build. Tuvalu has done this. Atolls are renown for being effected by storms and high seas. It causes erosion for starters. Coral islands are not so effected. Bermuda where I once lived has a very low sea level I think the highest was were I lived, on Blue Hole Hill. They have expensive houses built right on the ocean front. When they start to slide into the sea, then we might say, ‘Ohhh, those multi million dollar people are in trouble’. Let’s give them money from the UNCCF to help them out. NOT?
Many poor nations are in need of assistance, if you watched Tonga on that blokes 24 hour comedy show, they had genuine environmental problems. But they wanted sea walls built, and help with their gardening fertility (I do not say this without respect, gardening is a term used for small scale market gardeners) however, they were on the gang wagon blaming their environmental problems on climate change saga.
> He said the post had implied that his country’s climate change plight was a con-trick, and this, he said, was despicable and hurtful.
And true.
That’s what really hurts.
Tell the Maldives: ” It’s time to think or thwim”
The Maldives have always sounded to me like that bad bar scene from Star Wars…. just sayin’….. Their strange SCUBA scene didn’t help their cause either.
Unfortunately scientific mockery isn’t the only thing the Maldives administration is intolerant about:
http://religiousatrocities.wordpress.com/tag/maldives/
A G Foster says:
September 22, 2011 at 2:58 pm
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
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Instead of taking pot shots at him, Tamino, or whoever you are, why don’t you address him yourself??
He is very responsive. His email is morner@pog.nu
He’s a great guy…and very VERY smart.
Take it up with him personally…as opposed to just talking about him indirectly.
I’ll bet you both would have a productive conversation.
BTW….check out his research before you label him/them as “gaffes” [correct spelling].
Last time I checked…this is what science is all about.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Pamela Gray
LOL
I wish Ibrahim Didi-man all the best when taking his low-carbon economy to the levels enjoyed, in the past, by the wealthy, western plutocrats that gave him the financial muscle to (a) invest in Scuba and AV gear (b) to suck at the teat of first world guilt and (c) to throw up those decadent symbols of capitalist power – airports!
This is clearly a man who does the best for his nation unlike our politicians who feed him such largesse.
Most of the Maldives is about 3 feet above sea level. Lucky coincedence? NO. If they destroy their coral reefs then the islands will erode away. Protect them and the coral will keep up with any sea level rise.
One tale that always really bugged me involved a salt-tollerant tree (mangrove?) that stood out on a reef, sticking out like a sore thumb and very annoying to Alarmists, for it was something like 50 years old, and was visual proof the sea wasn’t rising. Therefore an Alarmist, for the good of humanity, cut the tree down.
Has anyone heard of that tree, and was it located in the Maldives?
Actually, the perimeter coastline of the Maldives defines what the sea level is, so they can’t possibly sink.
Dr Sally Baliunas described the Maldive situation in a paper. The islands sit in a very deep ocean basin, out of the main ocean current flows, so there is a huge body of cold deep water, and the surface layers can’t retain heat for any depth because of that underlying cold sink, so the thermal expansion effect is minimal. I believe the sea level is actually falling near the Maldives.
Caleb says:
Has anyone heard of that tree, and was it located in the Maldives?
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I have located the video containing that tree.
If is from a documentary called Global Warming – Doomsday Called Off (2004).
at this link:
the tree is mentioned.
The rest of the series, and more details can be found here:
http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/04/cbc-global-warming-doomsday-called-off.html
Why blame the rest of the world for some sandy islands… IF they are sinking they should’ve thought better before colonizing those islands.
“However, he added that Maldivians had as strong a sense of humour as anyone.”
LOL!
The report that Dr Morner presented to the Maldives Government was supressed by that government because they still want the handouts from the West. Their population still lives in fear of inundation because of their governments action in suppressing the report.
Currently, there are 89 resorts in the Maldives, they’ve plans to build 64 more.
http://www.letsgomaldives.com/maldives/news/sri-lankan-companies-to-tap-the-billion-dollar-contruction-industry-in-the-maldives.html
I hope they’re building them on stilts!
Well I’ll put the Maldivian governments fear to rest, I’ll never visit their islands since they think they’re sinking due to anthropogenic CO2 induced global warming which melts the poles and I don’t want to be the reason for them getting sunk.
I bet that if every tourist out there showed some proper respect and never again visited the maldives, the Maldivian government will be tremendously happy for not fearing the sinking island syndrome. Maybe UN can chip in to cover the financial losses, but at the very least UN soldiers will be wearing green helmets when patrolling to keep the peace. :p
Someone is proposing to build a £300 million golf course in the Maldives, so maybe they have a future after all?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2040584/Maldives-floating-golf-course-complete-islands-linked-ocean-tunnels.html
Well the Fens are the lowest point in the UK…4m below sea level. The Maldives however are 1.5m above sea level….But no problem. Dave Cameron will save us with his new poster campaign. Putting the Grate back in Britain…
http://fenbeagleblog.wordpress.com/
The Maldives Government knows that there is no such thing as bad press (as long as it gets them attention)
Caleb says:
September 22, 2011 at 9:11 pm
“One tale that always really bugged me involved a salt-tollerant tree (mangrove?) that stood out on a reef, sticking out like a sore thumb and very annoying to Alarmists, for it was something like 50 years old, and was visual proof the sea wasn’t rising. Therefore an Alarmist, for the good of humanity, cut the tree down.
Has anyone heard of that tree, and was it located in the Maldives?”
That tree is also mentioned in Page 35 here;
http://www.climatechangefacts.info/ClimateChangeDocuments/NilsAxelMornerinterview.pdf
As an engineer, I also find it difficult to understand how there can be a sustained low sea level in a local area due to evaporation. I was taught water (as well as other substances) flows downhill. I understand sea level and its measurement is a complex thing due to tidal bulges ,wave action etc. but with all of those conditions being the same I do not understand the local evaporative drop in sea level proposed by the dear doctor. Maybe I need to think globally, not locally, to borrow a phrase.