Atoll islands are more dynamic then we realized....it seems. They don't disprove sea rise, but it does broaden our thinking about how sea rise impacts locations.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27639-small-atoll-islands-may-grow-not-sink-as-sea-levels-rise/?fbclid=IwAR1RAhcjEsPZHeLRggH86_uZ0RduPHfWDjwHIzaxUsN69xxKmYUc-HxkpC8
Which islands can disappear as a result of climate change?
Hog Island, NY, for one. It was a developed site off the southern coast of Long Island. An unusual number of hurricanes caused large storm surges - one reported at 25 feet - that first damaged the island and subsequently swept it away completely, in 1902.
Maldives and Kiribati are on the way out. The people of Kiribati are trying to find another country to take them in. The Maldives is consulting with the Dutch to try to engineer rings around some of the islands.
In the Marshall Islands, graves and anchoring trees are being washed into the sea at increasing rates.
A Hawaiian island was “wiped out”.
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