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Kiribati likely doomed by climate change: president
Breitbart ^ | Jun 5, 2008 | Breitbart

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atoll; climatechange; doomed; kiribati; rising; sea; warming
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This guy is full of it. The ocean isn't rising at all. In fact it has been falling.
1 posted on 06/05/2008 8:29:44 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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"The ocean isn't rising at all. In fact it has been falling."

But can it get up ?

*running away*

2 posted on 06/05/2008 8:32:46 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Right Wing Assault

http://www.bigempire.com/sake/kiribatisea.html

Here’s another article.


3 posted on 06/05/2008 8:33:06 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Maybe if the president switches to driving a Prius and build a shrine to Algore, it might help save his island.


4 posted on 06/05/2008 8:34:27 PM PDT by max americana
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33 coral atolls straddling the equator

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.

5 posted on 06/05/2008 8:36:43 PM PDT by Sender (Never lose your ignorance; you can never regain it!)
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country may already be doomed because of climate change.

We are all gonna die alert...

6 posted on 06/05/2008 8:40:24 PM PDT by John123 (Obama said that he has been in 57 states. I will now light myself on fire...)
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To: John123

Kirbati made the statement and then flew home in his corporate jet and road to his beach house on stilts in a stretch limo.


7 posted on 06/05/2008 8:42:16 PM PDT by Patrick1
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To: Patrick1

I’ll give him a thousand dollars for the country.


8 posted on 06/05/2008 8:44:15 PM PDT by Patrick1
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To: Sender

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


9 posted on 06/05/2008 8:44:56 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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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.


10 posted on 06/05/2008 8:49:19 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Right Wing Assault

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.


11 posted on 06/05/2008 8:54:45 PM PDT by wastoute
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To: Right Wing Assault

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.


12 posted on 06/05/2008 8:56:07 PM PDT by coloradan (The US is becoming a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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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.


13 posted on 06/05/2008 9:00:52 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg ("Shut the hell up, New York Times, you sanctimonious whining jerks!" - Craig Ferguson)
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I bet the residents of the “Doomed” atoll of Kiribati will be surprised when it starts snowing.


14 posted on 06/05/2008 9:07:39 PM PDT by R_Kangel (`.`)
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"The president (Anote Tong) of the low-lying Pacific atoll nation of Kiribati said Thursday his country may already be doomed because of climate change. "

Well, A-note...if ol' Algore was right, you've got about 100 years in which to call Mayflower, and move the hell OFF the atoll.

A couple few years ago we were all going to "die of aids"...that didn't happen...

Then the bird flu was going to get us, for sure...that didn't happen either.

Then it was the mad cow disease, tuberculosis, Saddam's mustard gas, or contaminated dog food. But we're still here.

I think the "the-climate-is-falling" bunch should just go over with a U-haul "freighter", and pack these guys up and get'em off the island. I know Gilligan was very happy to get off his island, that lagoon got gradually larger every season....whew, just made it.

Personally, I'm going down to Albany, Georgia, and buy some land, so when Florida "sinks", I'll have some ocean front property.
15 posted on 06/05/2008 9:19:13 PM PDT by FrankR (OBAMA is the VAST WRIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY...)
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This guy is full of it. The ocean isn't rising at all. In fact it has been falling.

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.

16 posted on 06/05/2008 9:58:08 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid ... even by congressional standards.)
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Although scientists are still debating the extent of rising sea levels ...

Stop right there. Not one of these hysterical GW articles ever states how high sea levels have risen or over what period of time.

17 posted on 06/05/2008 10:33:46 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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To: FrankR

You forgot anthrax and West Nile virus.


18 posted on 06/05/2008 10:42:37 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Build canoes. Lots and lots of canoes.


19 posted on 06/05/2008 11:02:54 PM PDT by Hugin (Mecca delenda est!)
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To: coloradan

I think his islands are either sinking or eroding away.


20 posted on 06/05/2008 11:12:34 PM PDT by neb52
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