re: #457 Alberta Oil Peon

or probably more correctly, an uplift of the seabed beneath the Maldives.

Which is exactly why it was the chosen spot. Morner might be right in that the Maldives aren’t sinking (being in one of the more geo-active areas of the earth, an area rising as India continues to push into Asia…) however he’s probably way wrong in his conclusion that the oceans aren’t rising at all.