Re: Threat of rising seas looms over the minds of ignorant propagandists
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> On Dec 20, 12:02 am, Bret Cahill <Bret_E_Cah...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > From Reuters, 12/18/09:http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSCOC86277820091218?type=marketsNews
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> > > Threat of rising seas looms over coastal Afric
> > > By Tim Cocks
> > > ABIDJAN, Dec 18 (Reuters) -
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> > > Africans living on the coast, who face the loss of their cities, homes
> > > and livelihoods to rising seas, are less interested in haggling over
> > > greenhouse gas emissions than getting aid to move to higher ground.
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> > > Speaking as talks on a global climate deal in Copenhagen ran into
> > > disagreements over how to share the burden of emissions cuts, some
> > > residents of low-lying coastal Africa said they had more pressing
> > > concerns.
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> > > Rising sea levels caused by the melting of polar ice caps are seen by
> > > climate experts as largely unavoidable for centuries to come, even if
> > > substantial cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are made.
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> > > "Like a slowly boiling kettle, the oceanic system has very long
> > > response time to changing conditions and the seas will go on slowly
> > > rising for centuries even if all greenhouse gas emissions stopped
> > > tomorrow," wrote Mark Lynas, a British climate expert and author who
> > > advises the government of the Maldives.
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> > > The U.N.'s climate change panel in 2007 predicted global warming would
> > > raise sea levels by between 18 and 59 cm (7 and 24 inches) this
> > > century.
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> > > Many climate scientists believe the estimate is conservative, and a
> > > rise of a metre or more is likely.
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> > > Either way, it could spell disaster for much of coastal Africa,
> > > especially densely populated tropical West Africa whose economic
> > > centres sprawl along the coast.
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> > > The United Nations estimates Africa has 320 coastal cities and about
> > > 56 million people living in "low lying" coastal zones, those less than
> > > 10 metres above mean sea level.
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> > > ENCROACHING TIDE
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> > > Some expects say sea levels have risen by about 20 cm since the start
> > > of the Industrial Revolution in northern Europe.
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> > > That is no surprise to residents of Abidjan's Port Bouet, where
> > > abandoned concrete shacks litter the beach.
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> > > Some have lost their front walls.
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> > > Scaffolding is all that remains of others.
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> > > ...........................................................................................................
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> > > In Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, millions may have to move.
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> > > The city is home to 15 million people spread over creeks and lagoons.
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> > > The Lagos state government has been battling to reinforce the long
> > > sand spits that protect the mouth of the main lagoon from the
> > > Atlantic.
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> > > ....................................................................................................................
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> > > Africa's island paradises such as the Seychelles could be among the
> > > first to suffer.
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> > > Rolph Payet, an adviser to the government who won the Nobel Peace
> > > Prize in 2007 with former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore for his work on
> > > climate change, told Reuters half of the Seychelles' islands were
> > > barely two metres above sea level.
•• At the current announced rate it would take 2,000 years.
To increase the pressure the AGW alarmists propaganda
honchos declared a projected rise of 3mm pa which would
take 668 years
•• Of course it is not going to happen because even the
announced 1mm per year is not happening and the
polar ice sheets are not melting neither are the
Northern Glaciers. There are a couple of South
American glaciers in some trouble but when the
neighbouring volcanos settle down, probably by
winter, a few heavy snows will straighten
everything out.
> > > "All of our infrastructure, telecommunications, fuel, ports, airports,
> > > are located on the coast," he said, adding that tourist resorts in
> > > outlying islands risked being submerged.
•• You have nothing will happen -- you have, at the
worst, an 886 year cushion
> > > "The most frustrating thing is that we can do something. If an
> > > asteroid hits the planet, fine, we will all be doomed, but we are in a
> > > situation where we can actually solve the problem."
• Their problem is that there is no problem
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