An increase in the pace at which sea levels are rising threatens “a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale” and whole nations could be drowned under the waves, the UN Secretary General has warned. The Guardian has more.
The climate crisis is causing sea levels to rise faster than for 3,000 years, bringing a “torrent of trouble” to almost a billion people, from London to Los Angeles and Bangkok to Buenos Aires, António Guterres said on Tuesday. Some nations could cease to exist, drowned under the waves, he said.
Addressing the UN Security Council, Guterres said slashing carbon emissions, addressing problems such as poverty that worsen the impact of the rising seas on communities and developing new international laws to protect those made homeless – and even stateless – were all needed. He said sea level rise was a threat-multiplier which, by damaging lives, economies and infrastructure, had “dramatic implications” for global peace and security.
Significant sea level rise is already inevitable with current levels of global heating, but the consequences of failing to tackle the problem are “unthinkable”. Guterres said: “Low-lying communities and entire countries could disappear for ever. We would witness a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale. And we would see ever fiercer competition for fresh water, land and other resources. People’s human rights do not disappear because their homes do,” he said. “Yes, this means international refugee law.”
The International Law Commission is assessing the legal situation. In 2020, the UN Human Rights Committee ruled that it was unlawful for governments to return people to countries where their lives might be threatened by the climate crisis.
A new compilation of data from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) shows that sea levels are rising fast and the global ocean has warmed faster over the past century than at any time in the past 11,000 years. Sea levels rise as warmer water expands and ice caps and glaciers melt.
Read the full article here.
In fact, sea levels are not accelerating and have continued rising at a modest 10-12 cm a century – not something that is going to give any nation an existential crisis any time soon. I somehow think that countries might be able to adapt to a one metre rise per millennium.
But why let facts get in the way of a good disaster narrative that justifies lots of Government intervention and control?
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Further proof that this is all about controlling us so that the rich can go wherever they want without bumping into plebs all over the place.
He is Elite don’t you realise that? he is so much more impotant than us plebs, Know your place just pay your taxes so they can live off you like the parasites they are.
“Impotent”.
Small but significant typo I presume.
If only that were the case, but these bu**ers want to pass their riches on to their offspring.
Nuff said!!
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
I’m left wondering what work was so vital that he had to fly in to do it in person, but only took one day.
Aside, does anyone know the cargo capacity of a Gulfstream G650, expressed in sacks of gold?
yes, or telling someone something (or hearing from someone) that there couldn’t be an electronic or paper trail for
ie backhanders/corruption/you scratch my back etc
anything else can be done on zoom
About £130 Million at todays price. Only about 33 gallons of gold though.
Well that’s my ready made excuse for not ever quarantining. Don’t you know I run a massive bank? Get out of the way peasant.
Well, I can tell you, I really DO have a large bank (at the far end of my garden)!
And yet even Santa had to prove his Covid status to get into the Tesco ad.
The only miracle there is that he wasn’t black like everyone else on TV ads is now.
i am running a competition with my friends to see who spots the first one, but maybe that is one step too far for even wokey-blokeys.
I think Kwanzaa involves the veneration of Saint George.
Zwarte Piet on ads?
banking is simple
you borrow money at one timescale and lend at another
make money off the interest rate difference
what these people do is investment banking. convince you they are clever then invest your money. take a cut whether you win or lose. shysters
Don’t forget also packaging debts up into incomprehensible financial instruments to hide the risk!
“Money talks, virus walks”
Rules for thee but not for me.
Hong Kong was the birthplace of HSBC, a competitor to JP Morgan. It would have been fun to watch Hong Kong quarantine the head of a competitor “for health and safety reasons” for, say, several weeks. 😉 A missed opportunity!
Rich person avoids rules, as old as history
There is an ivermectin panic on the big tech and MSM right now. Massive articles from MSM on Ivermectin trying to push a danger narrative and also negative press on Americans Frontline Dr’s, again, to keep the Covid narrative alive. Just go to the Goog and type ivermectin then look at all the panic news articles. We are over the target. Big-Pharma is panicking. This medicine has been widely used by humans without any problems for 40 years. It’s inventor won a Nobel Prize after 20 years of successful use and after 100 million people were cured of a broad spectrum of problems without any side effects. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Our PM would be OK then, he’s always been a great big banker
Nice. One rule for me, one rule for thee.
In other words the NWO working with China is breaking down HK. the thousands of entrepreneurs who live and work there will gradually go bankrupt and only the big China affiliated banks will be allowed to survive. Taiwan will also be totally controlled by CCP within the next couple of years and Tibet will be completely broken. This is Communism taking over and many of our own Globalists want this system in the West.
Amazing, isn’t it, that this virus has the intelligence to avoid infecting Very Important Persons (or very rich ones)?