Is Tuvalu sinking

Over the last few years the BBC have been pushing the narrative that Tuvalu (amongst other countries) is sinking and its the fault of Man Made Climate Change. Here a few examples:
This from December 2009's Copenhagen Conference tells us that:

'Ian Fry of Tuvalu, a tiny Pacific island that is threatened by rising sea levels, told the conference that he could not accept the agreement.'

This from the same month tells us that:

'Annie, 15, from Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, explains how a woman from Tuvalu, an island under threat of disappearing beneath the Pacific Ocean, inspired others to stand up for her homeland.'

This from the BBC's environment correspondebt, Richard Black, tells us that:

'The UN climate convention sets the principle that poor countries likely to be hardest hit by climate change are able to negotiate deeper carbon cuts in the wealthy world.

In brutal terms, if Tuvalu is going to disappear under the sea, it can tell the US, Japan and so on that they must cut emissions faster than they've pledged to, and have some expectation that it will be listened to.'

Here is the same Richard Black telling us that:

'Tuvalu said it couldn't accept the deal, because it amounted to "30 pieces of silver to sell our country".'

Finally here is the same Richard Black telling us all that:

'According to Tuvalu's negotiator Ian Fry...

"I have the feeling that we are on the Titanic and sinking fast; but we can't launch any lifeboats because a member of the crew has decided we're not sinking and has decided to launch informal consultations."

Shipwreck or safe arrival? Bizarrely, just two days before governments are supposed to solve a problem that so many claim as a huge threat to the human race, the Titanic struggles of the negotiators are in danger of being swamped by the fast and loose launches of political expediency.'

All this coverage comes after Pacific islands (including Tuvalu) became the tragic poster children of Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth and the BBC called the Maldives "a paradise faced with extinction".


I wonder if Richard Black will report that the news that:

'Huge compensation claims filed by Pacific states including Tuvalu have been hit by a three-year old study, dramatically "rediscovered" by New Scientist magazine today. The study concluded that many Micronesian islands are growing, not shrinking.

“It has been thought that as the sea level goes up, islands will sit there and drown. But they won’t," Professor Kench at the University of Auckland in New Zealand told the mag.

Kench has been saying us much for a while, but most editors shunned the news.'

And here's another inconvenient truth for Al Gore and his fan-boys at the BBC:

'In written evidence to Parliament in 2005, the former president of the INQUA Commission on Seal Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, Nils-Axel Mörner, concluded there had been no acceleration in sea level rises, and no net rise since 1970.'

So let's see if the BBC cover this story with the BLARING HEADLINES that normally accompany the scare stories about global warming; somehow I doubt it...