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Trump's climate change decision has doomed small islands around the world, experts warn
Daily Mail ^ | June 22, 2017

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.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boogedyboogedy; dailyfakenews; dailymail; fakescience; globalism; globalwarming; hoax; socialism
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To: chrisser
So I’m guessing the price of private islands should drop like a rock then...

Those islanders can always take a page from Trump's book and build a wall around their islands. After all, they have up to 100 years to start work on a wall.

61 posted on 06/23/2017 10:55:03 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I am not believing anything stated by a man called “Wanker!” Just sayin’.
These “islands” will be around long after all of the living beings now on this planet have departed/died. This foolishness by the IPCC has to stop.
Waste of time, ink and paper.


62 posted on 06/23/2017 11:08:24 AM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Back in the 70’s there was a lot of talk about erosion in textbooks, magazine articles and even on the news.

Now it’s been replaced with climate change and sea level rise.


63 posted on 06/23/2017 11:30:43 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Hack-proof tagline.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I live in Rhode Island. (Yeah I know, we’ve got lots of commies.). We may only be 60 by 40 miles big, but we’ve got hundreds of miles of coastline. It’s called Narragansett Bay. It’s been here for quite a while. I have maps going back to the 1700’s. Very accurate nautical charts. The water level hasn’t changed one inch in all that time.

Why don’t they ever talk to about Venice, Italy? I’ll bet they’ve got pretty good records of sea levels.

It’s all a lie.


64 posted on 06/23/2017 11:34:59 AM PDT by The Public Eye
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To: GOPJ

Gore doesn’t know schist about geology.


65 posted on 06/23/2017 11:49:08 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug
Gore got much richer off of the Dummycrat Snowflakes. He ain't that stupid.
66 posted on 06/23/2017 11:51:01 AM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: bar sin·is·ter
Not to worry, coconuts can migrate.

I thought they were carried...

67 posted on 06/23/2017 12:28:05 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Why is it we never hear the anguish about small islands BEFORE Trump pulled the plug? 😆
68 posted on 06/23/2017 12:40:43 PM PDT by FrankR (FULL REPEAL, OR NO DEAL)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Reality to the rescue of small islands...

Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud

Sea levels began to rise 18k years ago at the end of the last glacial period. They have risen about 135 meters since then which is an average of 7.5 millimeters per year. That is an average of 750 mm per century (29.5 inches) which is far more than the average over the last century.

From 1880 to 2000 sea level rose about 20 cm or just under 8 inches. Far less than the nearly 30 inches per century average over the last 18,000 years.

69 posted on 06/23/2017 12:43:10 PM PDT by TigersEye (Investigate the Awan brothers and Wasserman Schultz)
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To: bar sin·is·ter

As long as swallows are available.


70 posted on 06/23/2017 12:49:39 PM PDT by Ingtar (.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hans Otto Wanker? Now THERE’s a name to command unquestioned acceptance of his pronouncements./S


71 posted on 06/23/2017 1:20:31 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Known as the Father of modern agriculture)
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To: Principled

Notice their sly claim; that if the U.S. doesn’t pony up $3 Trillion to be spread all around the planet NOW, some minuscule islands may have a problem 100 years from now. Well; To quote the song “Bloody Mary” from the film SOUTH PACIFIC, “Now, ain’t that too damn bad?!”


72 posted on 06/23/2017 1:26:48 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Known as the Father of modern agriculture)
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To: katana

Both, but just one at a time.


73 posted on 06/23/2017 1:34:13 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

2/10ths of 1 degree over 80 years and the world is doomed??


74 posted on 06/23/2017 1:39:38 PM PDT by eyeamok (Idle hands are the Devil's workshop)
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To: Bernard Marx
It ain't science if it doesn't use the scientific method.

Such a simple concept, in an age reason.

This ain't that.

75 posted on 06/23/2017 3:06:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Some people consider government to be a necessary evil, others their personal Ponzi scheme.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dear Small Islands Around the World:

Please call The Netherlands for advice on pushing back the sea and staying afloat.


76 posted on 06/23/2017 3:12:15 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

77 posted on 06/23/2017 3:27:38 PM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Such a simple concept, in an age reason.

I question whether we still live in an age of reason. Seems to me we've been slipping back into a semi-Dark Age since the introduction of postmodernism into mainstream education. The New Man says "Facts are what I want them to be!"

78 posted on 06/23/2017 5:08:10 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Bernard Marx

That was my point.


79 posted on 06/23/2017 5:09:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Some people consider government to be a necessary evil, others their personal Ponzi scheme.)
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To: Chgogal

Oh, yes he is. It’s just that ~50% of America is even stupider these days. Public education has done, and is doing us a number.


80 posted on 06/23/2017 5:52:16 PM PDT by onedoug (KEK)
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