by Chris Morrison, Daily Sceptic:
In February 2023, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that rising sea levels will cause a “mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale”, noting in particular the effect around the river basins at the foot of the Himalayas. Rising sea levels have been the poster alarm scare for decades with their associated riff of billions of climate refugees on the move in the near future. As is usual, it is a shame that mere facts get in the way of unhinged political rants. In 2016, a Dutch research project found that since 1985 the world had actually gained more land than was lost to water. So far as the river basins of the Himalayas are concerned, a recent science paper discovered that Bangladesh had experienced a 13.7% growth in its coasts since 1990.
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Commenting on the net growth of Earth land mass, National Geographic noted that it amounted to an area the size of Lake Michigan. The changes are spread across the planet and are both natural and man-made. The Dutch researchers at the Deltares Research Institute used Landsat satellite data to map the changes around the world. The mapping scientists were “surprised” at their results. according to National Geographic. More surprise was expressed by the magazine that “coastal areas across the globe had a net gain of more than 13,000 km2”.
With his ludicrous “global boiling” trope, Guterres is little more than a high status ranting fool. But he is plugged into the sea level scare that is ubiquitous throughout the Net Zero narrative. As early as 1989, UN activist Noel Brown was talking about entire nations being wiped off the map by 2000. One sixth of Bangladesh would be flooded and this would displace a quarter of its coastal population, amounting to up to 25 million people. The online science publication No Tricks Zone notes that the opposite has happened, with the total land surface of the country expanding from 134,382 km2 to 137,656 km2. The coasts around the Bay of Bengal have grown by 13.7% to 20,330 km2, while the population has swelled to around 173 million.
Of course, human activity can increase land mass with many reclamation projects seen across the world. But natural processes are often downplayed in the rush to promote mass psychosis and push populations to accept the Net Zero fantasy. Many small island states in the Pacific are growing in size due to natural accretions but that doesn’t stop a worldwide green campaign to divert huge amounts of cash to pay for climate ‘reparations’. These obvious shakedowns, much favoured by planet-saving types who attend COP meetings, are sometimes referred to as poor people in rich countries paying rich people in poor countries. Land itself is often on the move and in many places across the northern hemisphere the gradual post-glacial retreat of the ice sheets has led to substantial and continuing rebounds.
