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in 2004...

The Maldives, well, the BBC, British Broadcasting Company, in 2004 ran a segment about the Maldives that said that, quote, it was soon to be uninhabitable because sea levels were rising at 0.9 centimeters per year and 80 percent of the islands could vanish within a century.

So the resort we stayed at this past year – this past February, I looked out my window and I see an island off the – in the horizon.

It's probably a couple of miles out in the middle of the ocean.

And I know that island wasn't there because we had visited the same resort a couple of years ago.

The island wasn't there because I remember.

So I asked one of the people.

I'm like – What is that? And they said, oh, that's going to be a new Atlantis.

They built the island for it.

I said, what do you mean they built the island? They said, yeah, they've been dredging for a year and pumping sand up to make their own island to build this resort.

And I said, how many of those resorts, how many of these resorts out here like this, like do they have where they've made the island? Well, the one we were at happened to be a man-made island.

It was not, it didn't exist before they started to develop it.

At the time, the Maldives government held an underwater, they all scuba dived and held an underwater meeting trying to ask for all of this foreign aid because they had to save the Maldives from sinking.

Not only did they have to not save the Maldives from sinking, the Maldives haven't sunk.

They've exploded with growth.

They've got 12 new airports now.

They've expanded international terminals.

They've got record tourism over 100 or 2 million visitors.

I'm sorry.

And there's 170 resorts now.

Instead of drowning, they've shown no statistical difference in sea level rise since the 1980s, according to satellite data.

None.

None.

And yet in 2004, since the 80s, they'd shown no difference from the 80s to 2004 because they've shown no difference in sea level rise from the 80s to now.

And so why are you pushing this panic button that an entire country is going to be gone simply because the sea level is rising when it's not rising? Do you remember hearing about the polar bears and how the polar bears were going to be extinct because of global warming? I do.

in 2004...

The Maldives, well, the BBC, British Broadcasting Company, in 2004 ran a segment about the Maldives that said that, quote, it was soon to be uninhabitable because sea levels were rising at 0.9 centimeters per year and 80 percent of the islands could vanish within a century.

So the resort we stayed at this past year – this past February, I looked out my window and I see an island off the – in the horizon.

It's probably a couple of miles out in the middle of the ocean.

And I know that island wasn't there because we had visited the same resort a couple of years ago.

The island wasn't there because I remember.

So I asked one of the people.

I'm like – What is that? And they said, oh, that's going to be a new Atlantis.

They built the island for it.

I said, what do you mean they built the island? They said, yeah, they've been dredging for a year and pumping sand up to make their own island to build this resort.

And I said, how many of those resorts, how many of these resorts out here like this, like do they have where they've made the island? Well, the one we were at happened to be a man-made island.

It was not, it didn't exist before they started to develop it.

At the time, the Maldives government held an underwater, they all scuba dived and held an underwater meeting trying to ask for all of this foreign aid because they had to save the Maldives from sinking.

Not only did they have to not save the Maldives from sinking, the Maldives haven't sunk.

They've exploded with growth.

They've got 12 new airports now.

They've expanded international terminals.

They've got record tourism over 100 or 2 million visitors.

I'm sorry.

And there's 170 resorts now.

Instead of drowning, they've shown no statistical difference in sea level rise since the 1980s, according to satellite data.

None.

None.

And yet in 2004, since the 80s, they'd shown no difference from the 80s to 2004 because they've shown no difference in sea level rise from the 80s to now.

And so why are you pushing this panic button that an entire country is going to be gone simply because the sea level is rising when it's not rising? Do you remember hearing about the polar bears and how the polar bears were going to be extinct because of global warming? I do.