Sea Level Scare Debunked: Study Shows Overall Growth of Low-lying Maldives Islands
A study released earlier this year shows that the low-lying Maldives — a small archipelagic country in the Indian Ocean, long thought to be at risk from catastrophic sea-level rise associated with global warming — has actually grown in geographic size on a majority of its islands.
The study, done by Dr. Virginie Duvat of the University of La Rochelle in France, showed that 97 percent of the country’s islands either grew (59 percent) or have not changed (38 percent) since 2005. The study would seem to confirm Duvat’s own findings from 2018 when she concluded:
“Over the past decades, atoll islands exhibited no widespread sign of physical destabilization in the face of sea level rise.”...
