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A LARGE swath of Pacific Island nations are slowly being eaten away until residents will be forced to evacuate and the islands eventually sink into the sea — and it’s coming sooner than we think.
'The science tells us that Tuvalu, which I often hear about, is actually growing not sinking,' he told colleagues.Is Tuvalu growing? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
It's a place in discussions about climate change and rising seas, given its 101 low-lying islands.Indeed, Mr Kelly wrote about this link in a lengthy in February 2018:'A tenet of faith for Climate Alarmism devotees and anti-coal zealots is the belief that Pacific Islands such as Tuvalu are sinking beneath the seas.' The Australian Government has itself announced worth $300 million to help its Pacific neighbours, among them Tuvalu, to combat the effects of climate change. The source of the claimContacted by Fact Check, Mr Kelly stood by his recorded words and said the claim was based on from the University of Auckland.This peer-reviewed study used satellite imagery to measure Tuvalu's changing land area over four decades.Between 1971 and 2014, it showed, the country grew by more than 73 hectares, or 2.9 per cent.Each period of the study experienced net increases in land area, including the most recent decade.Of Tuvalu's individual islands, 73 had increased in land area while 28 had decreased. Just one had eroded entirely.Tuvalu's population is spread across nine of its largest islands, with about 50 per cent of its people living on Fogafale, in the Funafuti atoll.These larger islands generally experienced the greatest increases in land size, while Tuvalu's smaller, uninhabited islands fared the worst.
Notably, Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga, claiming it had not considered the habitability of the new land area.But Professor Kench told Fact Check this was not the case:'These islands are essentially deposits of gravel and sand,' he said.' The accreted material is no different to the older material.' His previous research demonstrated in the atoll islands of Kiribati.
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