Sorry, no, I did not venture beyond the paywall. You are correct that
Kiribati and Tuvalu are not mentioned in the abstract. However, TV New
Zealand covered this piece
<http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/nz-research-shows-pacific-islands-not-shrinking-3577883>
and reports specific data for Tuvalu and Kiribati. I have also read
other reports which discuss some of the detail in the full paper. Most
of the islands of Tuvalu have small increases in size. The three main
urbanized islands of Kiribati have had significant size increases
ranging from 12.5 to 30 percent.
From the abstract it should be apparent that tectonic activity is not
seen as the cause.
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/8/2011 7:08 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Nothing I can say would sway you so i'll discontinue after this - I
> suspect you'd be looking for other causes as the water lapped your
> toes. However, the link you posted was to an abstract that had no
> mention of Kiribati or Tuvalu - many islands in the Pacific are
> rising due to tectonic activity - AFAIK, those two chains are not and
> the effect of rising water and increased storm activity is having a
> serious effect. Does this paper mention these two nations? Have you
> purchased it? Andrew Fildes afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 09/08/2011, at 6:51 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> However, even if your image were to display some glacial melt (and
>> I'm sure some of it is occurring there) it has absolutely nothing
>> to do with Andrew's concerns about Kiribati and Tuvalu. The
>> Pacific there is rising at about 2mm/year and has been doing so for
>> many, many years. Yet these islands are growing in land area. They
>> are not being submerged by the sea. See the link I posted in my
>> reply.
>
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