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In 1989, a senior UN environmental official named Noel Brown warned that entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend was not reversed by the year 2000.
Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of “eco-refugees,” threatening political chaos, according to Brown, who was the director of the New York office of the UN Environment Programme (“UNEP”) at the time.
Brown stated that governments had a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it went beyond human control. He also mentioned that as the warming melts polar ice caps, ocean levels could rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations.
Needless to say, his “predictions” didn’t come to pass. But this hasn’t stopped them from playing the same record again and again. For example, see: ‘Sea Level Rise Could Drive 1 in 10 People from Their Homes, with Dangerous Implications for International Peace, UN Secretary General Warns‘, Inside Climate News, 14 February 2023.
The following is the original article published by AP News in 1989. You’ll find it’s the same climate catastrophe rhetoric being used today.
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UN Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked by the Year 2000
By AP News, 29 June 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.
As the warming melts polar ice caps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.
Coastal regions will be inundated; one-sixth of Bangladesh could be flooded, displacing a fourth of its 90 million people. A fifth of Egypt’s arable land in the Nile Delta would be flooded, cutting off its food supply, according to a joint UNEP and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study.
”Ecological refugees will become a major concern, and what’s worse is you may find that people can move to drier ground, but the soils and the natural resources may not support life. Africa doesn’t have to worry about land, but would you want to live in the Sahara?’’ he said.
UNEP estimates it would cost the United States at least $100 billion to protect its east coast alone.
Shifting climate patterns would bring back 1930s Dust Bowl conditions to Canadian and U.S. wheatlands, while the Soviet Union could reap bumper crops if it adapts its agriculture in time, according to a study by UNEP and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
Excess carbon dioxide is pouring into the atmosphere because of humanity’s use of fossil fuels and burning of rain forests, the study says. The atmosphere is retaining more heat than it radiates, much like a greenhouse.
The most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years, said Brown.
The difference may seem slight, he said, but the planet is only 9 degrees warmer now than during the 8,000-year Ice Age that ended 10,000 years ago.
Brown said if the warming trend continues, ”the question is will we be able to reverse the process in time? We say that within the next 10 years, given the present loads that the atmosphere has to bear, we have an opportunity to start the stabilizing process.’’
He said even the most conservative scientists ”already tell us there’s nothing we can do now to stop a … change’’ of about 3 degrees.
”Anything beyond that, and we have to start thinking about the significant rise of the sea levels … we can expect more ferocious storms, hurricanes, wind shear, dust erosion.’’
He said there is time to act, but there is no time to waste.
UNEP is working toward forming a scientific plan of action by the end of 1990, and the adoption of a global climate treaty by 1992. In May, delegates from 103 nations met in Nairobi, Kenya – where UNEP is based – and decided to open negotiations on the treaty next year.
Nations will be asked to reduce the use of fossil fuels, cut the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases such as methane and fluorocarbons, and preserve the rain forests.
”We have no clear idea about the ecological minimum of green space that the planet needs to function effectively. What we do know is that we are destroying the tropical rain forest at the rate of 50 acres a minute, about one football field per second,’’ said Brown.
Each acre of rain forest can store 100 tons of carbon dioxide and reprocess it into oxygen.
Brown suggested that compensating Brazil, Indonesia and Kenya for preserving rain forests may be necessary.
The European Community is talking about a half-cent levy on each kilowatt-hour of fossil fuels to raise $55 million a year to protect the rain forests, and other direct subsidies may be possible, he said.
The treaty could also call for improved energy efficiency, increasing conservation, and for developed nations to transfer technology to Third World nations to help them save energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions, said Brown.
Featured image: The Leaders of These Sinking Countries Are Fighting to Stop Climate Change. Here’s What the Rest of the World Can Learn, TIME, 13 June 2019 (left). UN: Rising sea levels disaster for all, BBC, 28 August 2024 (right).
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The only things these expert climate ppl is bullshit
Yes they are, but when bullshit is the key to make a lot of money, who cares. More bullshit = more money.
You all know very well, that this world is full of people who don´t have ability to think. They are the important vast majority, which scam artists need to keep lies alive.
We are just stupid deniers.
The UN —–USELESS and we need to get out of it!!!!!!!
Facts and reality play NO ROLE whatsoever in leftist ideology. The U.N. has been taken over by globalist scum.
If anyone believes this BS then they need their heads read, this scam warning has been about for the last 50 odd years and the sea still hasn’t risen FFS
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I would like to discuss this further but I have to load the bananas and coconuts I grow in Scotland into my submarine and deliver them to East Anglia which is of course underwater since the ice caps melted as promised by Al Gore the climate where who built his MANSION on the SHORE….as did Obama….I used to write that on every pro climate change post I came across…please steal if you like it….and don’t forget these loonies also said snow would be something our children would only get told about…they wouldn’t see it….
Guess what? NOTHING has happened. Period!
Check out the elevation of Obama’s property.
Can someone find this retard and make him answer to this BS?
Don’t listen to the “experts”. They are just paid operatives of the evil demons. They deliver the messages and have all sorts of false credentials. These are some of the scare tactics to traumatize society to the point the evil demons can completely take over society because the society is reduced to a numb nut trembling mass of maniacs. That evidence not given by an expert (me) can be seen all over nowadays.
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Sea levels are the lowest they’ve been for 500 million years. General rule of thumb-look out your window, if you can’t see anything different it ain’t happening-more lies.
Every ten years for the last 50 they tell us the earth has only 10 years to live. Nobody, but nobody ever pulls them up. They just repeat this nonsense and we are supposed to swallow it. It used to be that people standing on street corners wearing sandwich boards saying the end is nigh were regardless as simple. Now they are running the place.
The UN are consummate liars and ANTICHRISTS! Let it be known THE RAINBOW IS GOD’S COVENANT THAT HE WOULD NOT FLOOD THE WORLD AGAIN! Now if The UN want to lie their heads off they will come under THE ANGER OF GOD! The criminals are not the ISRAELIS THEY ARE THE UN. GUETERRES When have you EVER told the truth that HAMAS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CARNAGE IN GAZA YOU NEVER HAVE, EVER! May God reward you according to YOUR WORKS!