Experts say the 1200 islands of the Maldives will disappear by 2018.
This is probably not going to happen, but the Maldives were disappearing in 1837.
Experts also say that Manhattan will drown by the year 2018.
One might come to the conclusion that climate experts are complete morons.
Never let a good opportunity to cash in with help of alarm go wasted:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/climate-change-talks-our-last-chance-say-pacific-islands-this-is-not-politics-its-survival-10490376.html
The Maldives have 11 airports now and are planning about 2000 new beds for tourists.
Anyone can see how worried the residents are about global warming.
Science has lately been catching up with the dynamic nature of atolls:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/05/12/told-ya-so-new-paper-proves-that-coral-atolls-keep-up-with-sea-level-rise/
Geologists have understood this for hundreds of years. It forms the basis of much of Geology.
On the pacific islands, Coral had always been used for
building. Back in the 1970s tourism took off, by the 1990s it had been noted that had the use of coral continued with the increase in building the coral would disappear in another 30 years. A ban was put on using coral for building.
Recent observations have shown that 80% of the islands in the Pacific are now stable or growing.
Assuming everyone here is aware of Caleb Rossiter out of American U
writes about the Maldives and climate policy
as I recall he got himself into a bit of a pickle for not toeing the “Maldives are drowning” party line