By Jo Nova
Everything about the Tuvalu “climate visas” reeks of a marketing ploy
Satellites clearly show that if “climate change” has any effect on Tuvalu, it’s to make it bigger. Not only are beaches expanding, obviously in photographs, but we’ve known about this for years. And lest anyone wonders if Tuvalu is some freakish exception to the rule, the same thing is happening to 700 other Pacific Islands. Not one habitable island got smaller. Not one.
After fifty years of man-made climate change the only things sinking in the Pacific are bulk carriers loaded with EVs. Even the Blob Scientists have pushed back the “Tuvalu sinking” date until after they’ve safely retired and probably died, some 80 years from now.
So faced with a big nothing, the Australian government decides to offer 280 “Climate Visas” to be raffled off each year to the 10,000 people of Tuvalu, in case it sinks in 2100AD. Naturally 3,000 people applied for the lottery, inspiring mass headlines that implied a third of the nation are so terrified of the seas rising that they want to leave.
For the price of 280 visas the government, the UN, The Blob, gets the kind of advertising that money can’t buy.
This has the added benefit that the merchants of panic can do this every year, and on other islands, at least until the word gets out that Tuvalu is not sinking and they all know it. It’s a pathetic marketing scam to drum up news headlines.
If the Australian ABC bothered to so some research and google search their own site, they’d know that even they had to admit Tuvalu wasn’t sinking, and Craig Kelly was right back in 2018. Imagine what the ABC could do if they had 3 million dollars a day to spend and a whole ABC Science Unit to make sure they weren’t pouring out misinformation? I jest. (Don’t look now, but today’s top science story is “How deadly are sheep?”)
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to tell as many people as possible how dishonest and cynical everyone involved in this is. The Minister, the Scientists, the ABC, the Universities, they’re all pathetic. Where are the Australian “sea level” experts to correct the ABC’s propaganda, and expose the Ministers absurd policy?
h/t Sambar and David Maddison.
Examples of island change and dynamics in Tuvalu from 1971 to 2014. a/ Nanumaga reef platform island (301 ha) increased in area 4.7 ha (1.6%) and remained stable on its reef platform. b/ Fangaia island (22.4 ha), Nukulaelae atoll, increased in area 3.1 ha (13.7%) and remained stable on reef rim. c/ Fenualango island (14.1 ha), Nukulaelae atoll rim, increased in area 2.3 ha (16%). Note smaller island on left Teafuafatu (0.29 ha), which reduced in area 0.15 ha (49%) and had significant lagoonward movement. d/ Two smaller reef islands on Nukulaelae reef rim. Tapuaelani island, (0.19 ha) top left, increased in area 0.21 ha (113%) and migrated lagoonward. Kalilaia island, (0.52 ha) bottom right, reduced in area 0.45 ha (85%) migrating substantially lagoonward. e/ Teafuone island (1.37 ha) Nukufetau atoll, increased in area 0.04 ha (3%). Note lateral migration of island along reef platform. Yellow lines represent the 1971 shoreline, blue lines represent the 1984 shoreline, green lines represent the 2006 shoreline and red lines represent the 2014 shoreline. Images ©2017 DigitalGlobe Inc
REFERENCES
Duvat, V. K. E. (2018). A global assessment of atoll island planform changes over the past decades. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, e557. doi:10.1002/wcc.557
Kench et al (2018) Patterns of island change and persistence offer alternate adaptation pathways for atoll nations, Nature Communications (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-02954-1
Kench, P.S., Liang, C., Ford, M.R. et al. (2023) Reef islands have continually adjusted to environmental change over the past two millennia. Nat Commun 14, 508 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36171-2
Oh no! Now we will have to give thanks to the leaders of Tuvalu, past, present and future to welcome ourselves to their allegedly sinking country. And now a third flag to display our contrition for using fossil fuels and reparations for ancient slavery. At 9,816 people Tuvalu is three times the population of the Tiny oppressed Torres Strait islands who now own 53% of Australia. And we wont have to buy them a flag as well. They have had one since independence in 1978, but now desperate drowning refugees.
And the Principality of Hutt River is gone too. Oh, the humanity! The sooner fossil fuels are replaced by Chinese guilt free windmills the better.
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More ‘labor voters’, there must be a dozen actions the govt could have taken before offering citizenship.
They’ll ALL have their hands out now.
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North America is sinking.
I live in Montana, 3,000 feet above sea level.
I’m terrified and my wife and children are in danger.
I want a visa
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Go west, young man! The east coast is sinking faster.
Or to the Gulf of Alaska, where land rises fastest of all. Yes, rises!
Though perhaps that portends Earthquakes and Tsunamis.
Which might indeed erase Tuvalu.
Oh, the Horror!
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After 50 years… the only things sinking are planet-saving EV-laden bulk carriers.
Brilliant commentary, Jo. Hilarious, poignant, accurate – with a pinch of tongue-in-cheek pith-take humour thrown in for good measure.
With this visa scam, does that mean Cantberra will be soon flying the Tuvaluan flag as well, all things being equal, above your parliament of fools?
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Snap! TdeF. Obviously great minds think alike all at the same time. 😃
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‘After 50 years…the only things sinking are planet-saving EV-laden bulk carriers.’
I read that out to my husband just a few minutes ago. It’s one of Jo’s wonderful turns-of-phrase!
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Another great expose`of Australia’s “leadership”.
Possibly a small correction to TdeF’s comment on welcome to country, based on the evidence:
“we will have to give thanks to the leaders of Tuvalu, past, present and emerging“.
There’s also the possibility that if too many leave it will lead to a rebound effect with negative sea level rise and that could be embarrassing.
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And the negative sea level rise has already exposed the “brains” in Canberra.
Still good news for some Tuvaluan getting an entry into Australia.
Is this transferable? Would this lead to a market around the Pacific, with one entry visa being traded, say in 15 countries? I doubt that the Canberran Bureaucracy would ever discover this discrepancy or allow it to be publicised.
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emerging or submerging?
Need to get with the communist subversion agenda KK!
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Past, present and immersing ??
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Fine, but how do you ’emerge’? From eggs? I would love to know. It must be something they did in the dream time, associated with the rainbow serpent. Is the process hit and myth?
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Well, I was told that the answer to why did the chicken cross the road was for some fowl reason
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Tdef, and that fire bush burning thingy !!!!
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And all Labor voters!
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Having met a teacher who lived and worked there for several years and found the work very “challenging” I thought I’d better have a look at literacy and numeracy of our new chums. In classic bureaucrat speak, Tuvalu Literacy Rate:
. Oh good, future scientists and engineers. I read on,
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And 3000 people have completed a complicated visa application?
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Place your mark where I show you….
And the brown paper bag moves one more step up the ladder.
Who really won the lottery?
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I expect the people are highly compatible modern people, English speaking, educated, hard working and very welcome. It’s just the absurdity of the immigration policy based on fantasy science and history. The same number from Gaza worry me greatly. These are people no one in the Middle East wanted because of previous deadly behaviour and refusal to integrate, as if integration was a dirty word.
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Granting visas to the Tuvalu population is madness and based on a lie, however, allowing Gazans into our country is absolute insanity on a grand scale. No country in their region want these people because they are trouble.
Most western countries are currently making decisions and introducing policies which their populations do not want to happen. No wonder the voters are rejecting mainstream parties when casting their vote.
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When politics and science mix, science always takes a back seat to politics and becomes ‘political science’. Also known as ‘the science’ or ‘settled science’ (or my personal favorite ‘the Fauci’, since he is ‘the science’).
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Politically strategic.
‘Tuvalu is one of just 12 states that still have formal diplomatic relations with Taipei rather than Beijing.’
A reciprocal arrangement would be nice, as a member of the Denialati I put my hand up to retire in Tuvalu.
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The truly amazing thing about Tuvalu expanding is that even without the dreaded ‘sea level rise’, you would expect it to be sinking due to subsidence from the sheer weight of all the concrete slabs being laid down all over the island for airports and roads, the construction of buildings and other infrastructure, plus the draining of aquifers to provide for the needs of a steadily growing population. Yet somehow, the islands have managed to not only keep up with sea level rise and subsidence, they have consistently beat them both. The coral and parrotfish are putting in overtime.
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To be fair, the opportunities for young people on a dreamy Pacific island in Paradise are very limited and depressing. Zero resources, limited water and with the highest point only 4.6 metres above the water, it’s hard to aspire to heights or anything else. The only country with a lower maximum elevation is in the Maldives, a series of sandbars off India. They have recently added seven airports for the tourist trade, despite demanding cash for a drowning country. So it’s boom and bath.
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None of these clowns seems aware that water finds its own level, ie, it can’t be higher over here than over there.
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How can you be so cruel? Our PM, Albanese, is the first invertibrate to rule from the Lodge and his good friend, Chris Bowen, is the first minister to run a department without the benefit of a brain.
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Ha! The first time a spineless brainless communist jelly fish has been called an invertebrate. It’s probably an undeserved libel for jellyfish and I apologise in advance for offence to the jellyfish community. In Canberra.
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“The first time a spineless brainless communist jelly fish has been called an invertebrate.”
I wonder how the “spineless jelly fish” managed to get 94 seats in a Federal election especially an election in which the “jellyfish” was expected to lose and the Opposition was expected to win. The reality is that the Opposition leader lost his seat, the LNP lost 15 seats and the ALP gained 17 seats’ Seems as if most Australians voted in a landslide for the “jellyfish” .
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Title of Prime Minister obviously far more important and valued more than being a leader and governing for the people in our best interests.
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Ronin,
Beware of all estimates of ocean level change, its causes and its future.
All current work that I have read assumes that there is no change to the rock walls in which the water sits. The basin size is assumed constant, despite seafloor spreading, the emergence of new islands, new walls forming as river delta sediments become new sandstone.
It is very poor science to ignore basin change.
Geoff S
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TedF
I think you mean our 4th flag?
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The only thing that is shrinking is the IQ of the ABC, Labor politicians and OUR tax dollars.
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We posted essentially the same thing at the exact same timestamp!
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After 50 years of the climate change scam the only thing sinking is global intelligence levels.
True.
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Obviously the phone is smarter than those who use it.
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The Dutch Deltares satellite study proves that more global coastal land now exists and is greater than their dreaded SLR. This is over the last 30 + years.
I linked to this Landsat NASA article showing the global Deltares data years ago.
https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/tracking-surface-water-changes-over-the-past-30-years/
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As I have mentioned many times before, this sort of thinking by wamists/Leftists that any form of change to the environment is unnatural relates to their Aristotlean view of the world that it is static and unchanging.
It is a profoundly ignorant view, just like how they keep calling carbon dioxide “carbon”.
They simply don’t understand that the entire earth system (and elsewhere) is in a constant state of flux.
Sea levels rise, fall or remain static throughout the depth of time.
And it’s never a good idea to live on a fundamentally unstable coral atoll or associated reef islands like Tuvalu.
The idea that the earth and universe is static is a very primitive one and articulated by Aristotle in “In the Heavens” 350BCE.
Of course, Aristotle can be forgiven for thinking that given the limited amount of information he had access to.
When I was in primary school, back in the day, in geography lessons they used to teach how the earth was constantly changing, for example changes in the course of rivers, and changes in sea level as discernable by erosion patterns on cliff faces. Now, instead of science-based geography they teach the religion of climate catastrophism.
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Your last paragraph is scarily true.
The gerbil warming indoctrination begins in the class room.
When these yougsters become our future leaders I wonder how quickly they’ll be able to destroy our economies while policing their ideological policies?
That’s assuming that Bowen hasn’t already destroyed our economy by 2030.
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I understand that at the end of the sermons at the High Church of Climate Change the congregation say God Willing Weather Permitting.
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“It is a profoundly ignorant view, just like how they keep calling carbon dioxide “carbon”. ”
It is a good indicator when a low knowledge more on is talking, such as ‘xyz windmill plantation can supply x homes, or ‘ unreliables supplied 101% of power for 2 3/4 minutes at midday today.
I just lose concentration.
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I saw a snippet of this story yesterday and thought it was a joke. But no, it’s fair dinkum. As big a joke as the Premier of Victoria announcing all state owned buildings will be running on renewable energy by July 1st. State presently in a 5 day period of cloudy windless days. Yikes!
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Jacinta proves that a human can function without the benefit of a brain.
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They already claim trams run on ruinables.
Of course, it’s an obvious lie and accounting trick.
Just like they do with Canberra.
If anything truly runs on ruinables, it wouldn’t need access to any power produced in power stations.
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Speaking of trams and electricity, I had a day out in St. Kilda, Melbourne, yesterday and whilst seated by a restaurant window, noticed the frequency of arriving and departing trams. It was so frequent that I remarked on it to my wife. Trams arrived and departed every 10 minutes and these were large vehicles with three articulated carriages on each. The number of passengers disgorged at any time did not seem to exceed a dozen.
I don’t know how much energy each tram consumes, but from East Brunswick to St. Kilda is a long way. It was a very still, cool day, so not much replaceable energy around. I realise more passengers would travel to the beach in Summer, but perhaps we could give the planet a break in the Winter, eh?
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I still haven’t been able to locate this filter which separates green electrons from all the black and brown ones.
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Apparently as long as those unreliable remain installed everything runs on electricity attributable to that equipment regardless of AEMO Capacity Factor for wind of 30-35% of Installed Capacity.
And the sales and marketing is based on could power so many houses, etc.
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Also note that many of the areas on Pacific islands that are claimed to be sinking are in fact World War 2 airfields, sometimes built with soil and gravel shipped from Queensland.
As with any reclaimed land, such areas are fundamentally unstable and are gradually being recovered by the sea.
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If soil and rock wasn’t imported it was removed from pits dug on the islands as a souce of soil and rock or coral fill called “borrow pits”. They themselves created their own problems such as altering drainage patterns or the locals using them as rubbish pits.
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I first heard of the impact of “rising sea levels” causing problems was way back in the noughties. Even then it was pointed out that the apparent damage to human habitat was because of increased population due to medical improvements for the locals. This meant that newer generations built on marginal mangroves because that’s all that was available. In addition there has been pumping of limited fresh water from sub-surface, which, on depletion results in salty water being encountered. This contributed to the “rising sea levels” myth.
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Let’s note in our diaries to check in a few months that Their ABC hasn’t removed their own “fact check” which contradicts the Official Narrative.
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The question should be: why would anyone want to move from Tuvalu to Australia?
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Has anyone told them they’ll be 10,000th in line for a house.
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“why would anyone want to move from Tuvalu to Australia?”
Free stuff. Well free to some paid for by others using the government as the middle man.
So, new free stuff to some starting on the 1/7. More free child care, once again I have to pay for other peoples life style choices. If you want kids do what you are supposed to and look after them.
Additional superannuation “topped up” by the government for people on maternity leave
The bloody hand outs are endless.
Whatever happened to paying your own way, if you can’t afford it, don’t do it.
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How many Labor Trotskyite Marxist MPs will there be in Federal Parliament in 2100 to accept the blame for being wrong?
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Only the left fools could remove security intelligence officers from the security committee and replace them with climate change office people.
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Oh look! its northern hemisphere summer and there is a COP meeting coming up. What a coincidence!
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If Tuvalu goes under, so have many major capital cities.
Is it a reciprocal programme – can we get an ‘escape the lunacy’ residence lottery we can enter too?
How many would enter a lottery for the 280 places….
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Or, maybe a raffle to decide who gets to go and settle that new island that popped up near Tonga?
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How to work well with the neighbours: https://www.lusakatimes.com/2025/06/27/zambias-energy-move-from-importing-fuel-to-co-owning-the-source/
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“Climate Science” isn’t about the climate, and it isn’t about science. It’s about moving public money around until it gets to the required destinations.
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Here’s a challenge: ask your favourite AI tool whether Pacific Islands are in danger of disappearing (or something similar). If it replies with the standard “consensus” answer, ask it to summarise the 3 references given in this blog post. Then challenge it to reconsider the first answer.
I’ve done that with Claude (and the same about Great Barrier Reef) and got:
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Visas for islanders??? The ALP calls this mob..VOTE HERD!
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