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To: IC720 who wrote (1162273)	9/6/2019 3:41:35 PM
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"UN said entire nations would be wiped off the face of the Earth by year 2000 due to sea level rise. Misguided? Or lying?" I'll go with willfully mangling the English language, just to be kind. Pay no attention to this; the change is temporarily transient. But, I digress; what he said... June 29, 1989 UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ?eco- refugees,' ' threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP. He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control. apnews.com Did they solve it? They may have found the key to solving it; the 1st IPCC report was in '90, and Kyoto Accords in '97. Is it beyond control? I'm hoping we can keep it down to 2 degrees C, but I'm not sure we can. Refugees in Syria created a war, refugees in Europe created unrest, and refugees on our southern border created concentration camps. I'd call that the early onset of political chaos. Will Island nations be destroyed by non-transient sea level rise? Yeah. How to save a sinking island nation Weather-related events are estimated to displace 143 million people by 2050 – but rising seas are already threatening tiny tropical nations. Can anything be done to help them? 15 August 2019 bbc.com

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