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 ...
I always hear this but they never seem to name them or what their fields are.
These “scientists” can’t tell what the weather will be in a week, let alone what the climate will be in a 100 years.
Bravo Sierra.
5.56mm
I think that says it all.
Dolphins and Porpoises are gonna drown...
.17 degrees will doom small islands, eh?
Fake News,,,
with real assets .
He he...The scientist’s name is Wanker. Even worse, it sounds like auto wanker, which is something a scientist might invent, as he will never have a girlfriend.
“Well $4 billion or whatever we WERE (past tense)going to spend would have built a lot of sea walls.”
This shows how idiotic this whole argument is. They are claiming they need trillions to save these small islands from Climate Change(excuse me...it’s called erosion), but try to save your oceanfront home in the US from the same Climate Change(excuse me...it’s called erosion) and the EPA won’t let you build a seawall or touch a blade of seagrass.
They are using a small island the same way they used the picture of a polar bear stranded(taking a break) on a piece of ice. They never did tell people that polar bears love to swim and they use the blocks of ice to stalk sea lions.
Climate “change” has jack to do with islands. 80% are growing land mass. A few are subducting because new land masses are appearing out of the ocean and that’s geology.
What the real problem is, most of these islands were never capable of supporting much more than a cursory population in the first place. (As Capt. Cook discovered two hundred years ago, fresh water access was a widespread problem, and cannibalism was the primary solution to sustainability throughout Oceania). Overpopulated islands need to be permanently subsidized, or the islanders need to find another island capable of supporting life.
“reef islands change shape and move around in response to shifting sediments, and that many of them are growing in size, not shrinking, as sea level inches upward. The implication is that many islands—especially less developed ones with few permanent structures—may cope with rising seas well into the next century.
But for the areas that have been transformed by human development, such as the capitals of Kiribati, Tuvalu, and Maldives, the future is considerably gloomier. That’s largely because their many structures—seawalls, roads, and water and electricity systems—are locked in place.”
A romp or two with Ginger, then the rest of my life with Mary Ann (providing she never finds out about the couple of romps with Ginger!)
I felt my coconuts migrate a bit.
Ginger all the way. Yeah, she’ll leave you when she’s rescued, but it would be worth it.
Australians get out now!
Australians get out now!
#1 cause of sea level rise are wells and ground water extraction, followed by thermo expansion and melting glaciers.
From May 2012:
“A team of researchers reports in Nature Geoscience that land-based water storage could account for 0.77 millimetres per year, or 42%, observed sea-level rise between 1961 and 2003. Of that amount, the extraction of groundwater for irrigation and home and industrial use, with subsequent run-off to rivers and eventually to the oceans, represents the bulk of the contribution.”
http://www.nature.com/news/source-found-for-missing-water-in-sea-level-rise-1.10676
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I remember when this genius made that statement. Ignorant doesn’t begin to cover it!
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!! In less than 125 years, every man, woman and child now living on Earth will be dead! Womyn and minorities will be hardest hit.
It’s all Trump’s fault.
“So I’m guessing the price of private islands should drop like a rock then...”
Nah. I ask liberals to find me liberals selling soon-to-be-submerged land in the Florida Keys at low prices. They’d be ripping off a conservative and can laugh at me when I’m underwater. So far, no luck.
Guam’s gonna definitely tip over!
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