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Maldives Government Holds Undersea Cabinet Meeting
Hugh Pickens writes "The president of the Maldives and 11 ministers, decked out in scuba gear, held a cabinet meeting 4m underwater to highlight the threat of global warming to the low-lying Indian Ocean nation. While officials said the event itself was light-hearted, the idea is to focus on the plight of the Maldives, where rising sea levels threaten to make the nation uninhabitable by the end of the century. President Mohamed Nasheed and his cabinet spent half an hour on the sea bed, communicating with white boards and hand signals and signed a document calling for global cuts in carbon emissions. The Maldives has already begun to divert a portion of the country's billion-dollar annual tourist revenue to buy a new homeland as an insurance policy against climate change that threatens to turn the 300,000 islanders into environmental refugees. Emerging out of the water, a dripping President Nasheed removed his mask to answer questions from reporters and photographers crowded around on the shore. 'We are trying to send a message to the world about what is happening and what would happen to the Maldives if climate change isn't checked,' he said, bobbing around in the water with his team of ministers. 'If the Maldives is not saved, today we do not feel there is much chance for the rest of the world.'"
Apparently they were under a lot of pressure.
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No one's listening, OK. Perhaps you might considering enriching uranium instead. Squeaky wheel gets the grease and all that. You words might have more urgency if they were backed by NUCLEAR FORCE. That's all I'm saying...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Davey Jones' Locker?
They should totally pick the Middle East. Lots of land, friendly people...
i guess its gods punishment for being them being gay? or european? or something.
extra tree growth (which will come to haunt us later when those trees decay and the limit of extra tree growth caused by higher CO2 levels is reached)
You're right! lets cut down all the rain forests to prevent that disaster from happening.
Darling it's better, down where it's wetter, take it from me.
If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
Am I the only one who thought of a supervillain hideout while reading the title? Maybe if they had some flame throwing, robotic dinosaurs they could battle global warming.
Well shit, maybe you should tell the leaders of the Maldives about that! I mean, they've spent, like, millions of dollars trying to find a solution. I guess if they only thought to ask you they could have saved a lot of money!