Posted on 05/15/2019 7:10:46 AM PDT by Olog-hai
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said Wednesday that hes traveling to three South Pacific island nations to see the effects of climate change firsthand.
Speaking in Fiji, the U.N. leader said he wanted to learn about the work being undertaken by island communities to bolster resilience.
He said the Pacific needs stronger international support because climate change is taking place faster than efforts to address it.
The last four years were the hottest on record. The loss of ice in Greenland and Antarctica is accelerating, meaning that sea levels will rise a full meter (over 3 feet) by 2100 if nothing is done to avoid it, Guterres said. Here in the Pacific, sea-level rise in some countries is four times greater than the global average and is an existential threat to some island states.
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“”The loss of ice in Greenland and Antarctica is accelerating””
He learned his lines well - we’ve only been hearing this for the past 30 years. Tell us something new - IF YOU HAVE IT!
It sounds like he just wanted a vacation on the UN’s dime.
It sounds like he just wanted a vacation on the UNs dime.
I find it amusing how they claim hottest ever, when the precision with which they claim hottest ever (0.01 degrees) is not only not achievable with the instrumentation used to measure the temperature in the first place, but the variance of the temperature in a single room is Several orders of magnitude higher than the supposed difference in worldwide temperature between this year and last years record
And why did the Vikings Name it Greenland?? Was it covered in Ice back then or was it Ice Free and Green??
So ... is this directed to President Xi and President Modi as well as President Trump? If not, STFU.
Will he be traveling by magic carpet? Because otherwise his silly trip will be contributing to Global Warming.
The relative sea level trend is 6.34 millimeters/year with a 95% confidence
interval of +/- 1.21 mm/yr based on monthly mean sea level data from
1972 to 2016 which is equivalent to a change of 2.08 feet in 100 years. (with the following caveat)
Station relocated in March 1989
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?id=742-012
I can see the hurry to pull off a UN paid junket. (I also believe Fiji is seismically active so how does one balance this out?)
Since we’re still the biggest contributor to the UN, it’s basically on our dime.
Absolute PROOF the China Sea/Pacific Ocean area(s) are evaporating !
Global warming is back in the news.
You needs to get edjumacated like all the Gaia worshipers, all them now that the name 'Greenland' has nothing to with flora, it was named after it's discoverer Sven Greenhard!
Well my land that I bought 9 years ago which is 7 inches above sea level at high tide (river side leading straight out to the Atlantic Ocean in Newport NC) is still 7 inches above sea level. What gives?-)
Did he stop by Hawaii to see the 30 year lave flow?.
I will support further efforts to reduce carbon emissions in the USA when China, India and other countries have increased their efforts to equal ours.
It was named Greenland as a marketing ploy because that was before they discovered the wonders of “this one weird trick” to get people to move there.
America’s dime, your dime. Bon voyage!
It is an outright lie. The earth has cooled the last two years. You have to search NASA to find that tidbit though.
Spot on.
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