Posted on 03/18/2019 7:14:07 AM PDT by TexasGurl24
UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ″eco- refugees,′ ′ threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.
He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.
As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.
Coastal regions will be inundated; one-sixth of Bangladesh could be flooded, displacing a fourth of its 90 million people. A fifth of Egypt’s arable land in the Nile Delta would be flooded, cutting off its food supply, according to a joint UNEP and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study.
″Ecological refugees will become a major concern, and what’s worse is you may find that people can move to drier ground, but the soils and the natural resources may not support life. Africa doesn’t have to worry about land, but would you want to live in the Sahara?″ he said.
UNEP estimates it would cost the United States at least $100 billion to protect its east coast alone.
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Also, PLEASE LOOK AT THE DATES BEFORE COMMENTING PEOPLE!!!!!
Yeah Yeah. They’ve been saying this crap for 30 years.
Where’s Goebbels?
It’s all BS.
Look at the date of the AP article and the date referenced in the excerpt. That’s the real point of this exercise.
Look at the dates.
WE’RE ALL DEAD!!!
The UN is still trying to get the $100 Billion a year Obama/Hillary promised them ,LOL
It was BS then, it’s BS now.
YES!!!! BINGO!!!!! We all died 19 years ago.
Notice how the same articles from 1989 are almost cut and paste in the AP today? They just replace 2000 with 2030.
Bangladesh was always a Floodplain
It is all the sun’s fault.
Y2k neutralized the threat temporarily but the great scientific minds of the AOC campaign , who have been monitoring things, have noticed a shift indicating the countdown has resumed.
Thanks!
So many elitist predict Rising sea levels, yet not a single one has sold their Beach property yet.
Back in ‘89, the “experts” said there was but a 10-year window to stop “global warming” before it goes out of control. Well.. it’s supposedly been “out of control” for 20 years.. why are they still squawking about it?
We must act now before it is too late again.
It’s amazing. Find any article from today touting the end of the world through global warming and it will read exactly like that one, written in 89. The ONLY thing that will change in it, will be the predicted year of doom.
And of course their solution to this destruction is to transfer trillions of dollars from advanced countries to third world countries. Somehow that’s supposed to defeat climate change.
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