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As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland
Peace Corps Online writes "The Maldives will begin to divert a portion of the country's billion-dollar annual tourist revenue to buy a new homeland as insurance against climate change. Rising sea levels threaten to turn the 300,000 islanders into environmental refugees as the chain of 1,200 island and coral atolls dotted 500 miles from the tip of India is likely to disappear under the waves if the current pace of climate change continues to raise sea levels. The UN forecasts that the seas are likely to rise by up to 59 cm by the year 2100. Most parts of the Maldives are just 150 cm above water so even a 'small rise' in sea levels would inundate large parts of the archipelago. 'We can do nothing to stop climate change on our own and so we have to buy land elsewhere. It's an insurance policy for the worst possible outcome,' says the Muslim country's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, adding that he has already broached the subject with a number of countries and found them to be 'receptive.' India and Sri Lanka are targets because they have similar cultures and climates; Australia is worth looking at because of the immense amount of unoccupied land in that country. 'We do not want to leave the Maldives, but we also do not want to be climate refugees living in tents for decades.'"
...Right?
Right!
Rising ocean levels *proves* that *man* causes rising ocean levels.
Your logic is inescapable.
So why are Maldivians packing their bags?
Don't they know that the Democrats now have total control of the US government
and will sign the Kyoto Protocol, thus lowering sea levels?
Only Christians (specifically fundamentalists) are that dumb. Muslims and Jews take matters into their own hands and fix their own problems.
>>>Global Warming is just a myth!
No it's real (probably), but it's not man-made. The previous two warming events (3000 BC) and (300-1200 AD) were not caused by man, and it's unlikely this one is either. It's just a natural cycle... same as the glaciers retreating north 10,000 years ago, or the dinosaurs living without ANY ice (not even the poles) 200 million years ago. Warming happens.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
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How about the UN offering them Israel as their new homeland? After all, there is precedent.