7 thoughts on “Report on Maldives from 1837 waxing & waning”
Certainly not Global Warming or cooling from Carbon Dioxide. See this paper by Nils Morner: doi.org/10.15344/2456-351X/2017/137
Our Oceans-Our Future: New Evidence-based Sea Level Records from the Fiji Islands for the Last 500 years Indicating Rotational Eustasy and Absence of a Present Rise in Sea Level — in which The Maldives gets a mention.
Abstract of 2017 paper by Nils-Axel Morner
Previously, no study in the Fiji Islands had been devoted to the sea level changes of the last 500 years. No serious prediction can be made unless we have a good understanding of the sea level changes today and in the past centuries. Therefore, this study fills a gap, and provides real observational facts to assess the question of present sea level changes. There is a total absence of data supporting the notion of a present sea level rise; on the contrary all available facts indicate present sea level stability. On the centennial timescale, there was a +70 cm high level in the 16th and 17th centuries, a -50 cm low in the 18th century and a stability (with some oscillations) in the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries. This is almost identical to the sea level change documented in the Maldives, Bangladesh and Goa (India). This seems to indicate a mutual driving force. However, the recorded sea level changes are anti-correlated with the major changes in climate during the last 600 years. Therefore, glacial eustasy cannot be the driving force. The explanation seems to be rotational eustasy with speeding-up phases during Grand Solar Minima forcing ocean water masses to the equatorial region, and slowing-down phases during Grand Solar Maxima forcing ocean waster massed from the equator towards the poles.
The full pdf is easy to download – if you search the author in our left hand side there are blogs from a decade ago quoting his work.
And then there’s Charles Darwin’s ‘Structure & Distribution of Coral Reefs” 1842.
Do I recall something about a remnant coastal tree being cut down in the Maldives?? Years ago.
Maldives is the immediate past Prime Minister of Australia.
Lost and found section help required in 1865?
Oh and check out the cyclone.
“It will perhaps surprise many of our readers to learn that one of the Maldive Islands has lately disappeared, without leaving the slightest vestige to indicate the locality where it had existed.” trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/150403972
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Primarily exposing faulty methodologies behind global temperature trend compilations
Certainly not Global Warming or cooling from Carbon Dioxide. See this paper by Nils Morner:
doi.org/10.15344/2456-351X/2017/137
Our Oceans-Our Future: New Evidence-based Sea Level Records from the Fiji Islands for the Last 500 years Indicating Rotational Eustasy and Absence of a Present Rise in Sea Level — in which The Maldives gets a mention.
Abstract of 2017 paper by Nils-Axel Morner
Previously, no study in the Fiji Islands had been devoted to the sea level changes of the last 500 years. No serious prediction can be made unless we have a good understanding of the sea level changes today and in the past centuries. Therefore, this study fills a gap, and provides real observational facts to assess the question of present sea level changes. There is a total absence of data supporting the notion of a present sea level rise; on the contrary all available facts indicate present sea level stability. On the centennial timescale, there was a +70 cm high level in the 16th and 17th centuries, a -50 cm low in the 18th century and a stability (with some oscillations) in the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries. This is almost identical to the sea level change documented in the Maldives, Bangladesh and Goa (India). This seems to indicate a mutual driving force. However, the recorded sea level changes are anti-correlated with the major changes in climate during the last 600 years. Therefore, glacial eustasy cannot be the driving force. The explanation seems to be rotational eustasy with speeding-up phases during Grand Solar Minima forcing ocean water masses to the equatorial region, and slowing-down phases during Grand Solar Maxima forcing ocean waster massed from the equator towards the poles.
The full pdf is easy to download – if you search the author in our left hand side there are blogs from a decade ago quoting his work.
And then there’s Charles Darwin’s ‘Structure & Distribution of Coral Reefs” 1842.
Do I recall something about a remnant coastal tree being cut down in the Maldives?? Years ago.
Maldives is the immediate past Prime Minister of Australia.
Did Australian scientists/students pull down this tree in the Maldives ? 25Jun2007
phew – some ancient blog history here
Lost and found section help required in 1865?
Oh and check out the cyclone.
“It will perhaps surprise many of our readers to learn that one of the Maldive Islands has lately disappeared, without leaving the slightest vestige to indicate the locality where it had existed.”
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/150403972