Others point to rubbish – simply put they are running out of places to dig holes and bury the stuff.But I do want to bring Willis’ essay in here regarding the dynamics of fresh ground water in the coral environment – this bit I really like:-,I find Willis’ explanation of why such islands will not be inundated by sea-level variations equally fascination – this time Willis relies upon none-other than one Charles Darwin:-,More on Darwin’s Atoll theory from our friends at Wikipedia.And, as Willis sums up, there are significant stress factors affecting relative sea-level and fresh water salinity.Does it make sense then for Kiribati to buy (via grant no doubt) 23 Sq Km of Fiji – especially given Fiji’s tumultuous political regime – and would it have a hope of supporting 100,000+ people there? Atolls require a sea level fall to form. Villages are now joined, forming a near continuous strip of urbanisation along the roadside and down to the sea.A shortage of land means there is very little agriculture and the population is now heavily reliant on imported and predominantly processed food.Many people come from the rural outer islands to the urban centre of South Tarawa. One of the victims on the Kiribati ship was a woman who died while giving birth after the sinking. … That should help get people out of their situation and I don’t want to seem greedy. Just one example of many is the Houtman Abrohlos Islands, off central Western Australia. They’re listed on page 4 of the September report which you can find at the reports page. Published in these hallowed pages just over two years ago as “.As background, I would thoroughly recommend a re-read – however I will borrow bits and pieces from Willis’ work – heck, you may as well assume that (towards the end) I have plagiarised much from Willis’ excellent post.Sitting eating breakfast under the golden arches, a very rare event for me, I was drawn to something in the local newspaper here, the,As reported in print at the Dom, online at the Beeb,According to the Kiribati Government Website,So whilst we have here what looks to me to be a resurrection of the “Give us more cash” doctrine, I can’t actually blame them – no more than I can blame the beggar who can make more money from his trade than getting a real job (I once knew a guy who earned twice what I did just by begging part-time on London’s Oxford Street – but that’s another story).If just by creating these stories, the West gives them heaps of dosh – why would they not come back for more – stands to reason.But is this a valid call or not – well I suppose it depends on your point of view.Way back in September 2011, Kiribati’s President Anote Tong and the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a joint statement [emphasis mine]:-.Yep, sounds just like “give us the cash” to me – but again is there a clear and present danger?If you have read Willis’ essay by now, you probably already know the answer, but I’ll just quote a bit of what others have to say:Just as Mannian climatology would use proxies, so I regret I will have to do – there just is insufficient data (or I am too inept to find/mine it), that reference has to be made to nearby Island Nations who do have readily accessible tide-gauges (if you can help me out here please do so in comments below),The graph below was so faint, I’ve had to Photoshop it – but this originally for the Maldives from British Oceanic Data Centre (BODC).Apart from the obvious disconnect in the early 90’s, which may be a location problem, certainly from 1995 to 2004 shows no real trend using my eye-ometer.And don’t take my word for it, a paper in New Scientist by Paul Kench and Arthur Webb entitled.So just why are the Kiribatians looking to relocate? The I-Kiribati people risk losing their homes, country, and heritage.

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