Four Weeks Left Until The Maldives Drown


26 Sep 1988 – Threat to islands
On September 26, 1988, climate experts said all 1,196 Maldives Islands would drown in 30 years. That is only four weeks away.
So far, they are batting 0.000 with their forecast.  This is what the Maldives looks like this morning.


maldives 2018

In 1997, the President of the Maldives pleaded for help. He said Island countries were about to disappear under the seas.


25 Jun 1997, Page 1 – Standard-Speaker at Newspapers.com
Ten years ago, The Guardian said the Maldives were packing up and moving out.


Maldives seek to buy a new homeland | Environment | The Guardian
Now the Guardian says the Maldives is the moral leader on climate change and is adapting by taking in tens of billions of dollars of big oil money to expand their resorts to bring in millions of more tourists.


‘We need development’: Maldives switches focus from climate threat to mass tourism | Environment | The Guardian
It takes moral courage to survive expanding islands.


Low-lying Pacific islands ‘growing not sinking’ – BBC News
In climate science, islands expand as the disappear under the sea.


‘Sinking’ Pacific nation is getting bigger: study
The Guardian says if you don’t believe the Maldives will be gone in four weeks, you are evil and must be silenced.


Climate change is not a matter for debate. We must not offer credibility to those who deny it | Letters | Environment | The Guardian
It is unfortunate the Guardian didn’t take their stance on silencing skeptics 180 years ago, when CO2 was 280 PPM and Maldives Islands actually were disappearing.

17 Feb 1837 – ACCOUNT OF THE MALDIVES

Source