{"id":351416,"date":"2024-11-16T16:20:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T15:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=351416"},"modified":"2024-11-16T16:20:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T15:20:51","slug":"new-study-bangladeshs-coast-has-expanded-seaward-by-2677-square-kilometers-since-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=351416","title":{"rendered":"New Study: Bangladesh\u2019s Coast Has Expanded Seaward By 2677 Square Kilometers Since 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From NoTrickZone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Kenneth Richard<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another alarmist sea level rise\/coastal flooding narrative collapses under the weight of observational evidence.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1989, the year the U.N. assembled what was to become the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a \u201csenior U.N. environmental official\u201d\u00a0warned<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that world leaders, or politicians, needed to enact policies to \u201csolve the greenhouse effect\u201d by the year 2000. If governmental policies were not implemented to reverse the global warming trend within ten years, \u201centire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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A concerning regional setting at the time was Bangladesh, a country with 90 million people residing near coastal areas. The warning specified that \u201cone-sixth of Bangladesh could be flooded, displacing a fourth\u201d of its coastal population (20-25 million people).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the alarmist warnings were, of course, wildly wrong. The opposite has happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new study<\/a><\/strong>, utilizing remote sensing and geographic information system data, finds the total land surface of Bangladesh has expanded from 134,382 km\u00b2 in 1990 to 137,656 km\u00b2 by 2022, a 3,274 km\u00b2 net increase in land area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vast majority of this land area expansion has been the consequence of receding relative sea levels along the coasts and synchronous seaward coastal land growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1990, the Bangladesh coasts measured 17,653 km\u00b2 along the Bay of Bengal. By 2022, the Bangladesh coasts had expanded to 20,330 km\u00b2, a 2,677 km\u00b2 (13.2%) seaward coastal expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only have coastal populations not been displaced by rising sea levels, now thousands of more square kilometers of land is above sea level. Bangladesh\u2019s population has swelled to 173 million (2023).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Coastal land area growth has been occurring not just in Bangladesh, but satellite data reveal<\/a><\/strong> that since the 1980s \u201cthe coasts are growing all over the world<\/a><\/strong>\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sample reef island in the Coral Triangle (between SW Sulawesi and the Strait of Makassar) shows \u201coverall shoreline advance has led to a total island area of nearly 23 ha, indicating an increase of ~13% over the last 24 years\u201d (Kappelmann et al., 2024<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A comparison of how relatively smaller the island was in 1897 vs. 2023 (lower right image) demonstrates how much more land area is above sea level today than 125 years ago in this region.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Deltaic regions are home to over 40% of the world\u2019s mangroves. And now another new study<\/a><\/strong> indicates \u201c80% of the mangroves\u2019 shorelines are expanding seaward\u201d from 1986 to 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe found that the total area of mangrove forests display a significant gain with average change rate of 80.8 ha\/yr during 1986-2020.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFurther, the mangrove forest shorelines present an expansion rate of 18.9 m\/yr over the past 35 years.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Image Source:\u00a0Dai et al., 2024<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The alarmist narrative claims global warming means \u201centire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels\u201d in the 21st century. Observations do not support this alarmist narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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