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Climate change leaves future of Pacific Islands tourism 'highly uncertain'
BBC News ^ | Sep 9 | Phil Mercer

Posted on 09/08/2024 7:42:06 PM PDT by RandFan

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To: RandFan

I think this year is the hottest and then it reduces. It usually lags about 2 decades. The sun really dropped 2 decades ago, but I don’t know how the tonga explosion and this Atlantic cooling is affecting things as well.

But global warming/climate change is like that, there’s just too many variables.


21 posted on 09/08/2024 9:20:43 PM PDT by struggle
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To: Nateman
Back in the earlier days of the global warming hysteria I was on a boat docked in San Diego talking to a few friends and the topic of global warming and sea rise came up.

The insisted that the oceans had risen almost foot or more since the 1970s.

I grew up on a boat in San Diego and I knew for fact that the sea level had not changed significantly so I was not having any of that.

They would not listen and insisted the seas had risen and were rising so rapidly coastal areas would soon be under water.

Their was pier close by that had been built by the WPA back in the 1930’s and along with the WPA commissioning info, they had marked the waterlines from the 1930s.

We went over and looked and the water lines had not changed significantly since the 1930s.

They still would not agree the oceans were not rising.

These were guys from Stanford, MIT and Princeton and all had PhDs’. There is something about global warming that makes otherwise sane people go crazy.

22 posted on 09/08/2024 9:52:02 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: rdcbn1

bttt


23 posted on 09/08/2024 9:57:45 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: RandFan

I’ve been scuba diving every year or two for more than 40 years on a spit of land in the Caribbean called Klein Curacao that’s about 20 feet above sea level at its highest point. I’ve got photos going back all those years and if the shore line has moved a foot, you can’t tell it.


24 posted on 09/08/2024 10:06:37 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: RandFan
It's horrible. The Caribbean has been devastated by a record number of hurricanes and tropical
storms. Vacation destinations of been washed away or blown into the sea.

Oh, wait a minute. Sorry my bad. Almost no hurricanes or tropical storms this year! Mea culpa!

25 posted on 09/08/2024 10:14:00 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: RandFan

Climate change is the least of their problems.

There’s the matter of governments actively trying to destroy this planet and prevent travel through crashing the economy and restricting travel.


26 posted on 09/08/2024 10:42:18 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: RandFan

The only reason would be the environazis and their globalist corporate puppet masters will outlaw air travel. For us, of course. Not themselves.


27 posted on 09/08/2024 11:05:44 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: RandFan

Well, if history is any guide the oceans will rise another 100’ before the start of the next ice age. That’s what happened 2.5 million years ago before the start of the last ice age.

There are a lot of north-south ridges in FL about 60’ above MSL. They are the shallow water reefs of the last inter-glacial period, 2.5 mya.


28 posted on 09/09/2024 1:10:41 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: RandFan

The peeps at Pavlopetri succumbed to the sea long before the internal combustion engine.....


29 posted on 09/09/2024 1:16:50 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: RandFan

I guess the MSM (BBC) doesn’t realize the islands are actually ancient reefs which were once underwater. So the reefs are just returning to the natural habitat from which they originated. The mouthy interlopers, colonizers, occupiers, need to move off!

But I guess there’s more money to be made by hustling the mainlanders.


30 posted on 09/09/2024 1:21:15 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: RandFan

replace climate change with racism, social justice, DEI and any one of the dozen or so phobias same sh##


31 posted on 09/09/2024 2:08:38 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: RandFan

BBC= bumbling, bigheaded, clowns.


32 posted on 09/09/2024 2:14:13 AM PDT by exnavy
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To: rdcbn1

Its easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled!


33 posted on 09/09/2024 2:38:48 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: RandFan

BS, more leftist propaganda and fear mongering.


34 posted on 09/09/2024 3:27:36 AM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: RandFan

The ruling class is telling us what island paradise they intend to keep as their own.

We all know “climate change” is just a ruse to get the undesirables out of the way so the elites can keep the beaches and the skies to themselves.


35 posted on 09/09/2024 3:28:40 AM PDT by Thorium90
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To: Flag_This
Maybe they could learn from the Dutch and claim land from the sea.

That would involve sticking one's finger in a dyke.......no thanks.

36 posted on 09/09/2024 3:50:01 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: RandFan

If these islands are that bad off, I think the inhabitants should be moved to higher and drier place for their safety. FEMA can build them some nice trailers somewhere inland that is high and dry..In Florida they actually build houses way tall, up on posts with big stairs.


37 posted on 09/09/2024 4:34:31 AM PDT by armourenthusiast (I capitalize everything related to South)
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To: RandFan

Maybe government can arrange the forced sale of these worthless coastal properties to some generous billionaires. /s


38 posted on 09/09/2024 4:50:50 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: RandFan

If Hawaii drowns, do we remove their star off the Flag?, Asking for a friend.


39 posted on 09/09/2024 5:11:42 AM PDT by wetgundog
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To: RandFan

Relax it’s just the Weather


40 posted on 09/09/2024 5:54:56 AM PDT by butlerweave
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