Maldives Will Avoid Extinction

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The Maldives is an icon of climate catastrophe and extinction. But
it won´t happen says Swedish professor Niels-Axel Moerner: ”Sea levels has declined more than 20 centimeters the last 35 years, and the archipelago will survive the next 100 years as well”. No catastrophe will spoil the lives of the people from the Maldives”

In an open letter to President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives Niels-Axel Moerner takes a strong stand against the presidential scary scenario for the future.
Read the open letter that can be found here as .pdf.

More about Nils-Axel Moerner you get here.

Nils-Axel Moerner

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:13:37 +0000

Professor Nils-Axel Moerner is a Swedish professor of Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics. He has been leading several field expeditions to the Maldives to study sea level changes:

Nils-Axel Mörner was president for the INQUA commission on Sea Level Changes and CoastalEvolution (1999-2003). His research group spent much effort on the question of present-to-future sea level changes. After intensive field studies, deliberation within the commission and discussions at five international meeting, they agreed on a “best estimate” for possible sea level changes by the year 2100. Their estimate was +10 cm ±10 cm. This estimate was later revised at +5 cm ±15 cm. Such changes would imply small to negligible effects. Mörner states: “From our sea level curve we can directly see that such a small rise would pose no threat for the Maldives. Rather, it would be a natural return to the conditions existing from 1790 to 1970; i.e. to the position before the sea level fall in the 1970s. The same non-rising sea level story is recorded for all other areas claimed to be under a flooding already in progress; viz. Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Venice (Mörner, 2007b).

See Nils-Axel Moerner’s trip to the Maldives.

The open letter to President Mohamed Nasheed from the Maldives can be found as a .pdf here.

Möerners Biography:
Head of Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics at Stockholm University, Sweden (1991-2005)
President of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution (1999-2003)
Leader of the Maldives Sea Level Project (2000 on)
Chairman of the INTAS project on Geomagnetism and Climate (1997-2003)
Awarded the Golden Condrite of Merit from Algarve University (2008) “for his irreverence and contribution to
our understanding of sea level change”

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