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UN predicts disaster if global warming not checked (Look when it was published)
AP ^ | June 29, 1989 | Peter James Speilman

Posted on 05/25/2022 2:39:38 PM PDT by dynachrome

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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More than 30 years ago and they still lie.
1 posted on 05/25/2022 2:39:38 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

Gaia mixed with Technology & AI will be the new forced religion of the world with the Pope right on board with it.


2 posted on 05/25/2022 2:41:31 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: dynachrome

Same old story.


3 posted on 05/25/2022 2:42:38 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: dynachrome

They take their marching orders from Satan, the father of lies. It really is that simple.


4 posted on 05/25/2022 2:43:12 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: dynachrome

“UN predicts disaster if global warming not checked”

Well, we didn’t stop Global Warming, and now we have a stolen election possibly leading to WW3. So it was a valid prediction.


5 posted on 05/25/2022 2:43:24 PM PDT by BobL (Putin isn't sending gays into our schools to groom my children, but anti-Putin people are)
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To: dynachrome

Around 1970 there was a cottage industry of apocalyptic books telling us that we were all going to freeze to death in 20 years.


6 posted on 05/25/2022 2:47:16 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: dynachrome

The UN and it’s Crystal balls ,LOL


7 posted on 05/25/2022 2:49:11 PM PDT by butlerweave
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#4: "They take their marching orders from Satan, the father of lies. It really is that simple."

That's it in a nut shell. Yes it truly is that simple.

8 posted on 05/25/2022 2:49:41 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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9 posted on 05/25/2022 2:50:30 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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To: dynachrome

Guess New Orleans is a swimming pool now.


10 posted on 05/25/2022 2:52:20 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Born in 1950

Perhaps Mr Noel Brown, director of the New York office of UN Environmental Project now is a toilet attendant .


11 posted on 05/25/2022 2:54:15 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Climate Change Prevention Policies are already doing more global damage than actual climate change (if indeed there is any) can ever do.

But that’s a feature, not a bug.

Never forget that “global warming” was invented by the neo-malthusian Club of Rome, whose prophet is Maurice Strong, as a tool to accomplish their true agenda, which is the drastic reduction of human population.


12 posted on 05/25/2022 3:02:11 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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To: dynachrome
He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control. And 10 years ago John Kerry was banging the fear drum. And 10 years before that Al Gore was the fearmonger.

They invoke that threat every year. Recall just 2 years ago, AOC was claiming we only had 10 years.

Some of us remember the hysteria over the hole in the ozone 60 years ago. They were trying to come up with all kinds of solutions to fix it. They were blaming hairspray and spray-on deoderant. A few decades later, they came to discover that the opening and closing of the hole -- was a natural occurrence.

I fear, some day, some of these nutcases WILL end up doing something to cause irreparable damage.


13 posted on 05/25/2022 3:20:33 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I remember being terrified of that as a kid!


14 posted on 05/25/2022 3:25:18 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: packagingguy

Close. Its a cesspool.


15 posted on 05/25/2022 3:26:03 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: When do we get liberated?

Last time I was there some guy high on something, it wasn’t weed, walking real fast on the sidewalk, just bumping into people. His eyes were huge and he was just staring off into space like nothing else was around but himself.


16 posted on 05/25/2022 3:29:39 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Al Gore said if the Federal government didn’t invest in his carbon credit company global warming would be irreversible in 2004.


17 posted on 05/25/2022 3:30:02 PM PDT by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: dynachrome

Their predictions are making them look like the fools they are


18 posted on 05/25/2022 3:30:24 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: dynachrome

The climate extremists never answer my simple question.
Which is.....what caused last ice age to end? There is solid evidence of many miles high glacier ice sitting on top of where Chicago is today along with all of the mid-west. Melting all that ice required a doozy of a global warming.
Which human activity caused that global warming????


19 posted on 05/25/2022 3:34:12 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA are the only way to keep USA viable.)
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To: packagingguy

How about Venice?


20 posted on 05/25/2022 3:34:41 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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