The constant media refrain that man-caused global warming is dooming many small Pacific islands to sink beneath rising sea levels continues, even as science – and in one case the former president of an "endangered" island – refutes the alarmists, as Andrew Holt of the Herald-Sun in Australia reports: [A] new paper by Virginie K. E. Duvat, of the Institut du Littoral et de l'Environnement, University of la Rochelle, France: A reanalysis of available data, which cover 30 Pacific and Indian Ocean atolls including 709 islands, reveals that no atoll lost land area and that 88.6% of islands were either stable or increased in area, while only 11.4% contracted[.] ...  Over the recent past, 29 atolls exhibited a stable land area, while one (South Tarawa, Kiribati) increased in size[.] The state-owned broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, is particularly relentless in its propagandizing over the purported...(Read Full Post)