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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Gore doesn’t know schist about geology.
I thought they were carried...
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.
As long as swallows are available.
Hans Otto Wanker? Now THERE’s a name to command unquestioned acceptance of his pronouncements./S
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?!”
Both, but just one at a time.
2/10ths of 1 degree over 80 years and the world is doomed??
Such a simple concept, in an age reason.
This ain't that.
Dear Small Islands Around the World:
Please call The Netherlands for advice on pushing back the sea and staying afloat.
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!"
That was my point.
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.
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