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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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1 posted on 06/23/2017 9:27:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So I’m guessing the price of private islands should drop like a rock then...


2 posted on 06/23/2017 9:29:55 AM PDT by chrisser
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And penguins and polar bears. Don’t forget them.


3 posted on 06/23/2017 9:30:14 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh bull crap.

US is already cleaner than anyone. China and India are the polluters.

This hogwash about islands is crap. They’re just pissed they’re not getting our money.

I laugh at their foolishness!


4 posted on 06/23/2017 9:30:22 AM PDT by Principled (OMG I'm so tired of all this winning....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah, right!


5 posted on 06/23/2017 9:30:44 AM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Total bs. Man-made global warming is not causing any island nations to disappear. In any event, it was already acknowledged that the Paris Accords were going to have zero effect on man-made pollutants. In fact so-called greenhouse gases were still going to increase.


6 posted on 06/23/2017 9:31:00 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s time we started calling climate change hysteria what it is... Superstition.


7 posted on 06/23/2017 9:31:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Some people consider government to be a necessary evil, others their personal Ponzi scheme.)
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To: chrisser

My first thought exactly. I can’t wait to snatch up a slice of paradise for pennies on the dollar when the chicken littles have a fire sale on private islands.

Heck, Johnny Depp might need to sell his to cover his financial woes. I’ll take that for $50K.


8 posted on 06/23/2017 9:31:40 AM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( It's time to classify progressives as a hate group. ))))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah but didn’t Guam already tip over?


9 posted on 06/23/2017 9:31:57 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
But President Trump isn't going to be President for a 100 years...unfortunately...
10 posted on 06/23/2017 9:32:02 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“experts warn” = “according to unnamed sources” = “our news room says”


11 posted on 06/23/2017 9:32:59 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Uh, floaties? Just sayin’.


12 posted on 06/23/2017 9:33:07 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The question all men of a certain age must answer ... Mary Ann or Ginger? (Mary Ann!!!).


13 posted on 06/23/2017 9:33:19 AM PDT by katana
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Trump's climate change decision has doomed small islands around the world, experts warn globalist wet dream of getting trillion of dollars from US taxpayers.
14 posted on 06/23/2017 9:33:33 AM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever! “Laughing my #Ossoff)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Do you see the price of beach properties crash? Nope.


15 posted on 06/23/2017 9:33:34 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It’s time we started calling climate change hysteria what it is... Superstition.

More insidious, EPU. It's a cult religion bowing at the altar of Al Gore and the rest of his globalist minions.

16 posted on 06/23/2017 9:33:42 AM PDT by ssaftler ("Keep your hands to yourself, leave other people's things alone, and be kind to one another.")
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To: Williams

When Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty shoreline changes, let me know.
100+ years, same level.


17 posted on 06/23/2017 9:34:03 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not to worry, coconuts can migrate.


18 posted on 06/23/2017 9:34:12 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: Chgogal

Well $4 billion or whatever we WERE (past tense)going to spend would have built a lot of sea walls. Well, maybe lined a lot of pockets of people with “good intentions”.


19 posted on 06/23/2017 9:34:51 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: katana

Definitely, Mary Ann!


20 posted on 06/23/2017 9:36:28 AM PDT by The Working Man
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