Posted on 06/05/2008 8:29:44 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault
The president of the low-lying Pacific atoll nation of Kiribati said Thursday his country may already be doomed because of climate change.
President Anote Tong said communities had already been resettled and crops destroyed by seawater in some parts of the country, made up of 33 coral atolls straddling the equator.
Although scientists are still debating the extent of rising sea levels and their cause, Tong told a press conference marking World Environment Day that changes were obvious in his country of 92,000 people.
"I am not a scientist but what I know is that things are happening we did not experience in the past," Tong said.
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But can it get up ?
*running away*
Maybe if the president switches to driving a Prius and build a shrine to Algore, it might help save his island.
At least they are technically above sea level. Unlike New Orleans' 9th ward. I'm sure Bush will be blamed.
For third world nations struggling with "climate change", I have a word of advice. If you are below sea level or if you are in a region of perpetual desert, no amount of carbon offsets can save you. You need to move. Georgia is nice, and above sea level, and we don't have a desert. Come on over. We have pork barbecue here. I won't tell anyone that you liked it.
We are all gonna die alert...
Kirbati made the statement and then flew home in his corporate jet and road to his beach house on stilts in a stretch limo.
I’ll give him a thousand dollars for the country.
http://www.globalwarming.org/node/714
Even Stephen Schneider!
http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/MornerEtAl2004.pdf
And here’s the rest of the story:
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3846
Tell him to go and talk to the Chinese..they are rapidly increasing their carbon ass print and don’t intend to stop.
Once he convinces them to stop and gets Al Gore to fly commericial and live in a 1200 sqft house with no AC..then I will listen to his complaints.
Maybe he and his people can move in with Al Gore and John McCain and Geo. Bush and all the rest of these yokels who believe this Global Warming BS.
Either the seas are rising everywhere, or they are rising nowhere. There is no way for one island or set of islands to be jeopardized by rising seas but the neighboring ones to be just as they were. The fact that this problem appears to affect Kiribati and Tuvalu, while Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu, Hawaii, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and a thousand other islands don’t have a problem means the seas aren’t rising, and therefore, they aren’t rising because of Climate Change.
coral atolls
Coral Atolls.
Doesn’t coral grow UNDER WATER?
IF the water is rising, wouldn’t it make sense that these islands are simply returning to their normal state and everything above the water is there by accident?
Makes more sense the the pap spewed by the Gorons.
I bet the residents of the “Doomed” atoll of Kiribati will be surprised when it starts snowing.
Truth does not matter. What matters is the per capita payout from the "developed" countries to the Kiribatians. The Bekins bill to move them is going to be a Duzie.
Stop right there. Not one of these hysterical GW articles ever states how high sea levels have risen or over what period of time.
You forgot anthrax and West Nile virus.
Build canoes. Lots and lots of canoes.
I think his islands are either sinking or eroding away.
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