Posted on 06/23/2017 9:27:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
To small island nations where the land juts just above the rising seas, the U.S. pulling out of the Paris global warming pact makes the future seem as fragile and built on hope as a sand castle.
Top scientists say it was already likely that Earth's temperatures and the world's seas will keep rising to a point where some island states may not survive through the next 100 years.
That likelihood increases, they say, if the United States doesn't follow through on promised cuts in heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions.
President Donald Trump this month said he'd withdraw the United States from the climate deal , prompting leaders of vulnerable islands to talk about their future with a mixture of defiance, hope and resignation.
'If we really push into action, we can save some (small islands) but we may not be able save all of them,' said Hans-Otto Wanker, a German scientist who chairs the climate impacts study group for the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
'The chances are even less with the U.S. pulling out of the climate agreement in Paris.'
While calling Trump's announcement 'deeply disappointing,' Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine told The Associated Press
'I cannot give up on my people and my country and my culture. It's very important for us to be optimistic.'
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So I’m guessing the price of private islands should drop like a rock then...
And penguins and polar bears. Don’t forget them.
Oh bull crap.
US is already cleaner than anyone. China and India are the polluters.
This hogwash about islands is crap. They’re just pissed they’re not getting our money.
I laugh at their foolishness!
Yeah, right!
Total bs. Man-made global warming is not causing any island nations to disappear. In any event, it was already acknowledged that the Paris Accords were going to have zero effect on man-made pollutants. In fact so-called greenhouse gases were still going to increase.
It’s time we started calling climate change hysteria what it is... Superstition.
My first thought exactly. I can’t wait to snatch up a slice of paradise for pennies on the dollar when the chicken littles have a fire sale on private islands.
Heck, Johnny Depp might need to sell his to cover his financial woes. I’ll take that for $50K.
Yeah but didn’t Guam already tip over?
“experts warn” = “according to unnamed sources” = “our news room says”
Uh, floaties? Just sayin’.
The question all men of a certain age must answer ... Mary Ann or Ginger? (Mary Ann!!!).
Do you see the price of beach properties crash? Nope.
More insidious, EPU. It's a cult religion bowing at the altar of Al Gore and the rest of his globalist minions.
When Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty shoreline changes, let me know.
100+ years, same level.
Not to worry, coconuts can migrate.
Well $4 billion or whatever we WERE (past tense)going to spend would have built a lot of sea walls. Well, maybe lined a lot of pockets of people with “good intentions”.
Definitely, Mary Ann!
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