Posted on 08/27/2024 11:23:48 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Highlighting seas that are rising at an accelerating rate, especially in the far more vulnerable Pacific island nations, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued yet another climate SOS to the world. This time he said those initials stand for “save our seas.”
The United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization Monday issued reports on worsening sea level rise, turbocharged by a warming Earth and melting ice sheets and glaciers. They highlight how the Southwestern Pacific is not only hurt by the rising oceans, but by other climate change effects of ocean acidification and marine heat waves.
Guterres toured Samoa and Tonga and made his climate plea from Tonga's capital on Tuesday at a meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum, whose member countries are among those most imperiled by climate change. Next month the United Nations General Assembly holds a special session to discuss rising seas.
“This is a crazy situation,” Guterres said. “Rising seas are a crisis entirely of humanity's making. A crisis that will soon swell to an almost unimaginable scale, with no lifeboat to take us back to safety.”
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Get the rope.
Most of the Tonga Islands are uninhabited. Any guess why?
Tonga sits at the junction of two major tectonic plates, the Pacific Plate and Indo-Australian Plate. Most of the islands have a limestone base that was formed from uplifted coral formations, while others have limestone on top of a volcanic base.
The eastern islands have older tuffaceous sediments, as well as Eocene-age rhyolites and Eocene-to-Quaternary-age limestones. (Tuff is composed of volcanic ash and fragmented particles.)
Rising oceans is a phenomenon that stems from the ongoing progress of the current interglacial period. Modern use of fossil fuels somehow caused the glaciers to melt and begin to raise the sea levels about 12000 years ago or so with a catastrophic rise about 7000 years ago that inundated Sundaland and left us the East Indies. The rise has been steady since, a few millimeters a year. Actually it is not entirely even as some parts of the world experience more rise than others. Coastal civilizations in areas of flat low land have adapted by abandoning old structures as the water rises around them and building more a tad farther inland. If man had never started using gasoline and coal this, of course, would never have happened. The northern hemisphere would still be locked in ice. So get rid of your refrigerators and Jeeps.
The Kenyan owns oceanfront mansions on both of the world’s biggest oceans...Massachusetts and Hawaii.When they sell I’ll know it’s time to worry. Until then...I’m off to the pool.
Guterres toured Samoa and Tonga
Some islands may be sinking, but it's not the sea level rising.
Im so worried about the Obamas and their two oceanfront mansions. And those poor stars in Malibu.
I just ran and flushed my toilet. TWICE!
I just discovered recently that they were left there by a 3/4 mile deep glacier that enveloped what is now Manhattan about 10,000 years ago. Somehow that huge glacier completely disappeared *long* before cars...air travel...central heating...gas stoves...
Fake news.
“Tide comes in, tide goes out...”
And our bathtubs, like the oceans, slosh.
Seas are not rising. However, some land masses are rising and some are lowering. That’s why the “sea” seems to be rising in some places but not others. It’s the land, not the sea, that’s moving.
I am from Guam. It’s still there
Again? Wake me when the Obama’s Sea side estate is under water.
Tonga is nothing but a series of islands, or what I call glorified sand bars. It’s not rising sea levels that are affecting them, it’s the natural tidal erosion of the beaches.
They COULD put a pipe and FILL to Sea Level the Dead Sea.... And also put a pipe, and make electricity to flood Death Valley. More water could be retained in lakes, as well as desalination plants could pump some of the water to the great Deserts..refill the Great Salt Lake. We are getting that close to any calamity really are we?
:I just discovered recently that they were left there by a 3/4 mile deep glacier that enveloped what is now Manhattan about 10,000 years ago.”
The northern half of Long Island is glacial deposits. Elsewhere in Central Park you can see the striations in the rocks caused by the glacier.
This guy can go pound sand.
Yes, and 95% of that comes from nature and 5% is man made........ .002%
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