It’s apparent sea levels are rising but Tuvalu is compensating for it by growing larger

Scott Morrison is damaging Australia’s reputation, Greens leader Richard Di Natale, Wednesday:

The Australian Greens have backed the Pacific Island leaders in slapping down the Morrison government’s climate fund bribe … Di Natale said Australia’s global reputation was being damaged by Scott Morrison’s dogged determination to follow the fossil fuel industry into the grave.

Environment reporter Nick Kilvert, ABC, August 6:

In a study published in Nature on Tuesday, researchers have used historic tide gauge data combined with modern satellite and Argo float data to reconstruct sea-level rise throughout the 1900s to the present. They concluded that the jump in the rate of sea level rise in the 1960s was mostly caused by thermal mass expansion — the expanding of the oceans as they warm up. And if trends continue, Australia’s region could be hit harder than most … Global sea levels rose by an average of 3.1mm per year between 1993 and 2015 … The average rate of sea-level rise increased from 2.1mm to 3.4mm per year during that period. But that hasn’t been uniform worldwide. The waters off the east of Australia have undergone some of the greatest sea-level rise.

Ciara O’Rourke, PolitiFact website, Monday:

When an iceberg melts, it doesn’t raise sea levels, said Walt Meier, a research scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Centre. But, he said, that’s because the iceberg already raised sea levels when it moved from the land into the ocean.

Yale’s Climate Connections website, Tuesday:

As the ice sheets of Antarctica melt, seas are rising, threatening cities like Miami. For resident and artist Xavier Cortada, the reality sank in when he travelled to Antarctica. “I was horrified to understand that the very ice that I was standing on was the ice that threatened my city.”

Research revised, Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, January 4:

Two years ago, the glaciologists Robert DeConto and David Pollard rocked their field with a paper arguing that several glaciers in Antarctica were much more unstable than previously thought. The glaciers … could increase global sea levels by more than (a metre) by 2100 … Such a rise could destroy the homes of more than 150 million people worldwide. They are now revisiting those results. In new work … (they) have lowered some of their worst-case projections … Antarctica may only contribute about 30cm of sea-level rise by 2100, they now say.

Some Pacific islands are growing, ABC, December 21 last year:

Liberal MP and climate sceptic Craig Kelly made headlines in November when he was caught on tape mocking “lefties” for exaggerating the effects of climate change … Kelly set out to debunk several justifications for climate change action, including the argument that Tuvalu, the Pacific island nation, was slipping beneath the sea. “The science tells us that Tuvalu, which I often hear about, is actually growing not sinking,” he told colleagues. Is Tuvalu growing? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates. The verdict: Mr Kelly’s claim checks out. In the four decades to 2014, Tuvalu’s total land area grew by 73 hectares.

Damian Carrington, Guardian Australia, July 18:

Spraying trillions of tonnes of snow over west Antarctica could halt the ice sheet’s collapse and save coastal cities from sea-level rise … The project would need energy from at least 12,000 wind turbines to power giant seawater pumps and snow cannons.