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THE KYOTO PROTOCOL: TUVALU AND OTHER SINKING ISLANDS: WHAT DOES AMERICA KNOW? |
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Feb. 15 -/E-Wire/-- The old saying "Out of sight out of mind" is, without a doubt, true in many cases. It is particularly applicable to "Global Warming", "The Kyoto Protocol" and the Tuvalu Islands.
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The fate of the Tuvalu Islands has been publicized worldwide in all the media. The encroaching sea is being attributed to Global Warming. Many documentaries have been made of the situation at Tuvalu and the plight of the inhabitants there. Their Islands are being swamped by the rising ocean. The Global Warming proponents are adamant that Carbon Emissions and the burning of fossil fuels are the cause of rising seas. The debate espouses that all the C02 produced from these emissions is causing the icecaps to melt. The conclusion of the argument is that the melting icecaps are causing the sea levels to rise.
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Tuvalu has been used as an example of what is going to happen to low lying countries around the world as the ice caps melt. Tuvalu is, therefore, being used to keep our minds on rising sea levels supposedly caused by Global Warming? Tuvalu is a prima facie case in the Global Warming debate. But is the evidence conclusive? Just how conclusive it is we will see? The Carteret Islands are a part of Papua New Guinea located 86 miles north-east of Bougainville in the South Pacific at 4-45S, 155-24E. The Atoll is horseshoe shaped scattered along a 24 mile chain of low lying islands. The Islands run in a north-south direction with a maximum elevation of 5 feet and a total land area of less than a square mile. The Carteret Islands have much in common with Tuvalu. The media has, however chosen to ignore their dilemma. Why has the media spotlighted rising seas at Tuvalu and ignored the tragedy of the Carteret Islands. The only logical conclusion one can draw is that the Carteret Islands are being kept 'out of sight by the media in order to add support to the rising sea level arguments of the Global Warming lobby. In other words it is and inconvenient truth.
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If the situation at the Carteret Islands is exposed it will most definitely weaken the "Global Warming" hypothesis. This explanation seems plausible because the Carteret Islands are also sinking into the Pacific. "Global Warming" is already under grave suspicion i.e. as far as sea level rise is concerned. As I said before "Global Warming" is a fact of life, and the heat has been increasing over many years. Global Warming is not however, causing sea levels to rise. On the contrary sea levels are falling. The melting of the icecaps and their fresh water contribution to the seas will not make any difference to sea levels. Sea levels are falling constantly and will continue to do so even if all the ice caps melt. So the real moot point is…….What causes "Global Warming"? In my article 'TUVALU STATE OF FEAR" I suggested that the Tuvalu Islands were sinking because of tectonic activity on the Pacific Ocean Floor.
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