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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If this is true they should move. Who would take-in these whiney losers?
I think that if this hoax of global warming,oops,I mean climate change,is actually true and the planet is destroyed and we all die we actually deserve it Because the American people have voluntarily for decades elected democrats.
Gore failed math in college didn’t he? Or is that rumor?
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