| Pemalite said: The evidence is undeniable at this point. |
Your maths teacher from primary school is not amused. 
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Pemalite said: Not to mention you haven't even fucking read your own links! You have misquoted sciencedirect, they recognize that sea levels have risen! (Which contradicts all your prior statements on the issue!) |
He didn't misquote sciencedirect, the sentence that he quoted was indeed a 1:1 quote from the sciencedirect link that he posted. But his quote is a nice example how a quote taken out of context can give an impression that is almost the exact opposite of what the quoted source actually states.
On the other hand, what you've written about that sciencedirect link is not just misleading, but wrong. The short abstract available under that sciencedirect link does not state that sea levels have risen instead of falling. Basically, it just states that after some team of scientists found that sea levels in the maldives have fallen about 30cm in the decades before 2000, another team of scientists came to at least slightly different conclusions, that the fall in sea levels at least wasn't as high as 30cm, and that they believe rise in sea levels in the maldives in the future to be the most reliable scenario.
numberwang probably simply copy-pasted that quote and the link from somewhere else without even reading it. Apparently, you didn't read it either, at least not carefully. numberwang probably didn't intentionally give a false impression - he could have just linked to this scientific paper instead as "proof":
https://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/MornerEtAl2004.pdf
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4. Conclusions In the region of the Maldives, a general fall of sealevel occurred some 30 years ago. The origin of this sea level fall is likely to be an increased evaporation over the central Indian Ocean linked to an intensifi-cation of the NE-monsoon. Furthermore, there seems no longer to be any reasons to condemn the Maldives to become flooded in the near future. Besides, at about 1000–800 BP, the people of the Maldives survived a higher sea level by about 50–60 cm. |
Some scientists wrote a paper that came to this conclusion, other scientists wrote another paper that came to another conclusion, and ultimately neither of these papers is ultimate proof of anything. When it comes to the maldives, we just know for sure that those politicians and scientists who a few decades ago warned that they would be sunk by 2020 were utterly wrong. I still remember fearing the Maldives would already be sunk by the time I was finally able to visit them when I was a kid in the 80s.
Last edited by ArnoldRimmer - on 18 February 2020
