ttbn and Hassy,

What is it about Islanders that brings the hatefulness out in you fellas. Then again what non white fellas do you actually like? NONE!

Come on Hasbeen, do try and keep up, coral expands outwards not upwards! And only as far as the new low tide mark. What are you suggesting? That the inundated build on stilts like in parts of overcrowded and impoverished Asia?
Alan B.

Alan B,
What did they do before Global Warming when sea levels rose ?

Indy. They moved to higher ground, other islands etc. One thinks that was how NZ was settled. It's another island chain and has significant high ground.

You're right, since the dawn of time there has been tectonic plate shifts and some land subsidence. and we have natural climate change as the sun goes through wax and wane phases. And as our elliptical orbit moves us closer or further from the sun.

And given we've been in a waning phase since the mid-seventies (NASA) the joint has been getting progressively and rapidly cooler and sea levels are dropping.

At least that is what should be happening given our current orbital position from a waning sun. Instead, we've had record heat waves, accompanied by record deaths by heat stroke, the longest and most enduring droughts in living memory.

Coal-fired enthusiasts may lie to protect coal-fired financial interest, but the peer reviewed science doesn't! 97% of the world's CLIMATE SCENTISTS, agree that what we are experiencing is largely down to manmade climate change and therefore reversable.

MSR thorium is not just the cheapest cleanest and safest power source available to us, it's also carbon-free.
Alan B.

I love the islands, in real life. Tell me, just what have you done for islanders, other than talk about them.

I have made 6 trips at about 50 miles a day in my yacht, dragging 50+ft logs from high [volcanic] islands to atolls, because canoe building logs don't grow on atolls.

I have built a number of jetties on atolls to make it easier to ship copra.

I have traveled as mother ship for fleets of canoes traveling to special fishing grounds they can no longer visit since they stopped making the big double hulled sailing canoes.

I have swum with the shark callers of the Solomons, but only once. I decided they are too crazy for me.

What have you done?

MSR thorium
Alan B,
Would this employ as many people as the coal industry ? Would it be economic enough to introduce 3-day working weeks to offset the coal job losses ?
I'd really hope it would. The trouble is that so much spare time would lead to even more stupid masses. Somehow, maybe even by legislation, the population growth needs to be curbed or it'd all be for nothing !
When you have people who object to a petty 12 months Service to the benefit of the Nation for unemployed & unemployables then what is it really all about ? Maybe we could have raffles for morons to score a seat on Penny Wong's jaunts ?