This study, by Mark Sidall of the University of Bristol, projected that the Atlantic Ocean would rise as much as 2.7 feet*, by the year 2100 -- all caused by Global Warming. This report supported another report in 2007 by the UN's IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) which also suggested that the Maldive Islands in the Pacific would disappear as well
since the Maldives has an average height above sea level of only 4'11.
Understandably, this report was so alarming to the Maldivan President that he has stated:
"We do not want to leave the Maldives, but we also do not want to be climate refugees living in tents for decades," so the Maldivan Government has begun looking for land (primarily in India) to relocate their citizens, when the catastrophe starts. (Funding for such a purchase of course would come from the countries causing the warming, which was the big flap at the Copenhagen Conference.)
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Criticism of the 2009 report began shortly after it was published in Nature Geoscience, a new but respected magazine. Finally, the report was retracted -- much to the embarrassment of Nature Geoscience -- with a statement as follows:
"One mistake was a miscalculation; the other was not to allow fully for temperature change over the past 2,000 years. Because of these issues we have retracted the paper and will now invest in the further work needed to correct these mistakes."
Now, why aren't we seeing these retractions on Global Warming being reported by Newspapers and Television in our country? Why is it only European papers carry this category of news? I leave that answer to you, Dear Reader.
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* The sea level around the Maldives in 1970 mysteriously dropped 12 inches. Hopefully this was taken into their account as well. Sea level has since raised up to a "normal" level.
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There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science
on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.
~~ John Coleman, Founder of The Weather Channel
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