Charles Darwin did the initial research on atolls over 150 years ago . His research and conclusions in this area of science was thorough and those conclusions still stands today with subsequent verification from plate tectonics , volcanism and weathering . I have to say it is not at all clear the same can be said about science in practice, and "Questions without Answers" at ABCTV.
ABC TV on Sunday night , did a report on the Kiribati islands, suggesting the sea level is rising on them .( after 9pm 9th October 2011) The reporters collected all the information that suited their theory in a way which reminded me of Margaret Meads mistaken efforts some decades earlier on an island nearby - Conveniently in both cases , these real situation is some distance away from the audience.
The clever reporters have ignored Darwin's discovery - the atolls are formed by subsidence
The ABC presumably dug up this report in preparation for this week in parliament( with its grand ambition of changing the world with yet another tax) ,
The greatest environmental risk on Tuesday morning in Parliament was the risk from Carbon Dioxide.
By Tuesday evening " the greatest environmental risk ever " has been changed to oil leaks from a ship near New Zealand .
Does anyone believe the reporters at the ABC? More quickfizzers here
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