{"id":91237,"date":"2019-09-24T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=91237"},"modified":"2019-09-24T14:42:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T18:42:03","slug":"in-regard-to-tarawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=91237","title":{"rendered":"In Regard to Tarawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_86108\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86108\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Map-of-Pag-asa-Island-showing-the-north-south-east-and-west-shores-with-recommended-300x237.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Map-of-Pag-asa-Island-showing-the-north-south-east-and-west-shores-with-recommended-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Map-of-Pag-asa-Island-showing-the-north-south-east-and-west-shores-with-recommended-768x607.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Map-of-Pag-asa-Island-showing-the-north-south-east-and-west-shores-with-recommended-421x333.png 421w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Map-of-Pag-asa-Island-showing-the-north-south-east-and-west-shores-with-recommended.png 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of Pag-asa Island &#8211; China&#8217;s property<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I ran across this on another site, regarding the notion that rising seas are a threat to the atoll that embraces the island of Tarawa, the scene of some intense fighting between the US military and the Japanes in the Pacific during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>The hysterics about climate change have degraded into finger-pointing, ridiculous acts of public idiocy by people gluing themselves to sewer covers or moving doors using an acrylic glue that has to be dissolved in order to get off those spots, or lose some skin. Anything made with acrylics, including some of the paints I used to use for works on canvas, are derived from petroleum byproducts, which is why these idiotic activities don&#8217;t impress me and a lot of other people.<\/p>\n<p>In regard to Tarawa, the World War II battle for it, and how it is NOT going to disappear under the alleged rising seas of the Pacific: it is a coral reef.\u00a0 \u00a0And if you know even a smidgeon of anything about coral reefs, you know that they grow UPWARD, constantly building upward-bound volume to be at the level of the most oxygenated waters available, which are near the ocean surface. If you know anything about increased water volume on a planetwide basis, a 1.5mm rise in overall sea level can be determined by looking at a ruler with inch and metric measurements on it. I have a tape measure with both.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2019\/09\/20\/tarawa-and-the-war-against-sea-level-rise\/\">https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2019\/09\/20\/tarawa-and-the-war-against-sea-level-rise\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you know anything about the battle for possession of Tarawa, you know that the fighting was so intense that it should have shredded that island. Now, 70-plus long years later, it is more solidly supported by its own reef-building surroundings, but has changed its outlines just slightly as the reef critters continue to add to the atoll&#8217;s volume of land mass. There are aerials, old and new, at the link.<\/p>\n<p>Also, please look at the image of Pag-asa island, which is a manmade island in the South China Sea, built by the Chinese government. Anyone still think Tarawa will be inundated by 1.5 millimeters of water? Anyone?\u00a0 Bueller?<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me while I fall down laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across this on another site, regarding the notion that rising seas are a threat &hellip; <a title=\"In Regard to Tarawa\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=91237\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Regard to Tarawa<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91238,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91237\/revisions\/91238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}