From JoNova

By Jo Nova

Everything about the Tuvalu “climate visas” reeks of a marketing ploy

Satellites clearly show that if “climate change” has any effect on Tuvalu, it’s to make it bigger. Not only are beaches expanding, obviously in photographs, but we’ve known about this for years. And lest anyone wonders if Tuvalu is some freakish exception to the rule, the same thing is happening to 700 other Pacific Islands. Not one habitable island got smaller. Not one. 

After fifty years of man-made climate change the only things sinking in the Pacific are bulk carriers loaded with EVs.  Even the Blob Scientists have pushed back the “Tuvalu sinking” date until after they’ve safely retired and probably died, some 80 years from now.

So faced with a big nothing, the Australian government decides to offer 280 “Climate Visas” to be raffled off each year to the 10,000 people of Tuvalu, in case it sinks in 2100AD.  Naturally 3,000 people applied for the lottery, inspiring mass headlines that implied a third of the nation are so terrified of the seas rising that they want to leave.

For the price of 280 visas the government, the UN, The Blob, gets the kind of advertising that money can’t buy.

This has the added benefit that the merchants of panic can do this every year, and on other islands, at least until the word gets out that Tuvalu is not sinking and they all know it. It’s a pathetic marketing scam to drum up news headlines.

If the Australian ABC bothered to so some research and google search their own site, they’d know that even they had to admit Tuvalu wasn’t sinking, and Craig Kelly was right back in 2018. Imagine what the ABC could do if they had 3 million dollars a day to spend and a whole ABC Science Unit to make sure they weren’t pouring out misinformation?  I jest. (Don’t look now, but today’s top science story is “How deadly are sheep?”)

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to tell as many people as possible how dishonest and cynical everyone involved in this is. The Minister, the Scientists, the ABC, the Universities, they’re all pathetic.  Where are the Australian “sea level” experts to correct the ABC’s propaganda, and expose the Ministers absurd policy?

h/t Sambar and David Maddison.

REFERENCES

Duvat, V. K. E. (2018). A global assessment of atoll island planform changes over the past decades. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, e557. doi:10.1002/wcc.557

Kench et al (2018) Patterns of island change and persistence offer alternate adaptation pathways for atoll nations, Nature Communications (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-02954-1

Kench, P.S., Liang, C., Ford, M.R. et al. (2023) Reef islands have continually adjusted to environmental change over the past two millennia. Nat Commun 14, 508 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36171-2