{"id":6329,"date":"2024-12-23T03:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=6329"},"modified":"2024-12-23T03:43:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T16:43:42","slug":"tuvalu-may-move-on-to-foreign-soil-10-may-1990-its-still-there-after-34-years-despite-their-claims-that-its-both-sinking-and-threatened-by-rising-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=6329","title":{"rendered":"Tuvalu May Move On To Foreign Soil. 10 May 1990. It\u2019s still there and growing after 34 years despite their claims that it\u2019s both sinking and threatened by rising seas."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/blogs\/andrew-bolt\/abc-disappearing-islands-claim-proved-false-again\/news-story\/3fcaf6b1187d279f06f0bcb9e794db84\">https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/blogs\/andrew-bolt\/abc-disappearing-islands-claim-proved-false-again\/news-story\/3fcaf6b1187d279f06f0bcb9e794db84<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tuvalu may move on to foreign soil (1990, May 10). <i>The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 \u2013 1995)<\/i>, p. 7. Retrieved December 23, 2024, from <a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/122246178#\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/122246178#<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Current pictures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=tuvalu&amp;client=firefox-b-d&amp;sxsrf=ALeKk03akQkk0HuAXxECFoboNFlMSD7gDA:1607272931738&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiNz5yh5rntAhUpwTgGHYxMDCoQ_AUoAnoECAwQBA&amp;biw=1211&amp;bih=613\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=tuvalu&amp;client=firefox-b-d&amp;sxsrf=ALeKk03akQkk0HuAXxECFoboNFlMSD7gDA:1607272931738&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiNz5yh5rntAhUpwTgGHYxMDCoQ_AUoAnoECAwQBA&amp;biw=1211&amp;bih=613<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FUNAFUTI: A leading politician from the Pacific island state of Tuvalu has suggested the outside world consider donating rock and soil to his tiny low-lying nation in a bid to beat possible rising sea levels from the greenhouse effect.<br \/>\nIn an interview on the capital atoll of Funafuti, Works and Communications Minister Ionatana Ionatana said he believed scientific predictions that Tuvalu could be swamped within 40 to 50 years. He said few of Tuvalu\u2019s 9000 people would want to leave the country, which is made up of eight inhabited coral atolls more than 1000km north of Fiji.<br \/>\n\u201cWe must acquire material to build up the islands,\u201d he said. \u201cHow else can we ensure the safety of this nation?\u201d Mr Ionatana said a study was needed to ensure the concept, which he had yet to put to the country\u2019s Cabinet, was viable. Other possibilities included the sacrifice of outer islands to add to the size of more populated ones.<br \/>\nSoil dredged from the bottom of lagoons could also be used. This was being examined currently as part of another land reclamation project, funded by Australian aid, to fill in large pits left by US troops who needed material to build Funafuti\u2019s airstrip in World War II. However, Mr Ionatana said he favoured the idea of importation of foreign rock and soil using bulk carrier ships which now ply the Pacific with minerals and other goods.<br \/>\n\u201cWe should start doing that right now. Within 10 years the islands may be high enough to safely accommodate our people from the rising sea level. If you start now, I think it\u2019s not too late.\u201d Although he admitted the idea would be a massive engineering and logistical exercise, he suggested the area contained by Funafuti\u2019s 18-by-20km lagoon could be filled in to a height of 10m above its current water level, giving the country ample room.<br \/>\nHe said that without a solution to the greenhouse problem, the Polynesian people of Tuvalu would have to leave, possibly to an island donated by Australia or New Zealand.<br \/>\n\u2013 AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/blogs\/andrew-bolt\/abc-disappearing-islands-claim-proved-false-again\/news-story\/3fcaf6b1187d279f06f0bcb9e794db84 Tuvalu may move on to foreign soil (1990, May 10). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 \u2013 1995), p. 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