Robert Ferry: Yes. Far too subtly for my liking and while I understand editors make headline decisions the top line was very misleading. I happen to be working with a community that is looking at relocation options and I read the article through that lens.

Another stunningly good @nytimes.com climate story from @zhonggg.bsky.social and colleagues. The mystery of the Maldives: The islands should be disappearing. Some aren't. A science mystery, beautifully explored. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Vanishing Islands That Failed to Vanishwww.nytimes.com Low-lying tropical island nations were expected to be early victims of rising seas. But research tells a surprising story: Many islands are stable. Some have even grown.

This will not be well received by the many communities that have already been relocated or are in the process of planning for relocation. Natural cycles of biomass formation on land and sea add land, but the pace of such formation is nothing compared to increasing storm surges and coastal erosion.

Information Sharing Session on Climate Relocation of Communities (CROC) Trust Fund - Fiji Climate Change Portal (FCCP)fijiclimatechangeportal.gov.fj Fiji is dealing with rising sea levels, coastal inundation, salt water intrusion and shoreline erosion, resulting in communities to request the Government to support them for […]

While beautifully designed and written, and while the science is certainly precise and well researched, the piece seemed tone deaf to me. We are staring down the loss of the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica which would make this research seem like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Zhong didn’t try to refute the horrors of climate change in any way, and points out that people are leaving— the last scene is a heartbreak. I’d suggest rereading the story for the clearer sense of what he’s saying.

As I said, it is a well-written article with a lot of interesting facts and stories. My problem is that is it seems to take the position that sea level rise in the future will be like sea level rise in the past. “Some islands will shrink, others will grow.” That part is likely not true at all.

This story clearly states, though perhaps too subtly for your liking, that the long-term prospects are bleak. "If atoll nations aren’t facing certain and imminent erasure, then what are they facing? For having a future is not the same thing as having a secure future."

Yes. Far too subtly for my liking and while I understand editors make headline decisions the top line was very misleading. I happen to be working with a community that is looking at relocation options and I read the article through that lens.

I wish that community luck. Climate change is bearing down on us all, but the pain is unevenly distributed. And the people least responsible for our crisis are the ones suffering the most.

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