Posted on 05/15/2019 7:10:46 AM PDT by Olog-hai
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said Wednesday that he’s 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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What caused the ice to be there in the first place?
Maybe the plane this international parasite will experience “problems”...I hope not. What an oaf.
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