The May 8 New York Times Magazine ran a piece by Nicholas Schmidle titled “Wanted: A New Home for My Country”, repeating debunked mythology about atoll nations being submerged by rising sea levels as a result of Man-made global warming.

Scmidle writes: “Even a slight rise in global sea levels, which many scientists predict will occur by the end of this century, could submerge most of the Maldives.”

However, there is no evidence of sea level rise around the Maldives, at all. This claim was popularized in “An Inconvenient Truth”, prompting the only court to examine its merits (Dimmock v. Secretary … Continue Reading