Climate Fears Are Driving 'Ecomigration' Across Globe

[Crabtownboy]

Adam Fier recently sold his home, got rid of his car and pulled his twin 6-year-old girls out of elementary school in Montgomery County. He and his wife packed the family's belongings and moved to New Zealand -- a place they had never visited or seen before, and where they have no family or professional connections. Among the top reasons: global warming.

Halfway around the world, the president of Kiribati, a Pacific nation of low-lying islands, said last week that his country is exploring ways to move all its 100,000 citizens to a new homeland because of fears that a steadily rising ocean will make the islands uninhabitable.

The two men are at contrasting poles of a phenomenon that threatens to reshape economies, politics and cultures across the planet. By choice or necessity, millions of "ecomigrants" -- most of them poor and desperate -- are on the move in search of more habitable living space.

There were about 25 million ecomigrants in the world a little more than a decade ago, said Norman Myers, a respected British environmental researcher at Oxford University. That number is now "a good deal higher," he added. "It's plain that sea-level rise in the wake of climate change will inundate the homelands of huge numbers of people."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/22/AR2009022202378.html?hpid=topnews

 

[sag38]

Hopefully, all the global warming nut cases like the one who moved to New Zeland will soon leave this country. We will be much better off. Good luck in New Zeland.

 

[Revmitchell]

Foolish..........................

 

[Crabtownboy]

Hopefully, all the global warming nut cases like the one who moved to New Zeland will soon leave this country. We will be much better off. Good luck in New Zeland.

What about the ones who live on the islands of Kiribati whose homes will soon be under water?

 

[carpro]

What about the ones who live on the islands of Kiribati whose homes will soon be under water?

Their "fears" can rule their lives if they wish and they should move if they're afraid.

They just shouldn't expect sane people to buy into the fearmongering of the global warming nutballs with them.

As for the U.S. , the sooner all those fruitcakes move out of the country, the better off we'll be.

 

[sag38]

What about the ones who live on the islands of Kiribati whose homes will soon be under water?

Where does it say that thier homes will soon be under water? They are making plans based on "fears" that sea levels will rise. What a bunch of bunk and to think that supposedly intelligent people are moving based on theory rather than solid scientific evidence.

 

[sag38]

Well???? ?????

 

[Crabtownboy]

What about the ones who live on the islands of Kiribati whose homes will soon be under water?

Already, two of the islands that make up Kiribati (a Pacific island nation) have gone under the waves, and in early 2005 others were inundated by a high spring tide that washed away farmland, contaminated wells with saltwater, and flooded homes and a hospital.

Notice two islands have already disappeared.

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache...e+Kiribati+sea+level&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

The leader of the South Pacific island nation of Kiribati laid out an extraordinary plan Monday (Sept. 22) that would scatter his people through the nations of the world as rising sea levels submerge the islands they have called home for centuries.

President Anote Tong said the half-meter sea level rise projected by climate scientists over the next century would submerge a significant proportion of the land on which his people live. Salinization of ground water due to rising seas would render even more land uninhabitable.

Kiribati is made up of 33 islands that straddle the equator in the vast South Pacific Ocean. Most of Kiribati’s islands are coral atolls — low, circular islands built on reefs that remain above water when the original mountainous islands they surround erode into the sea. Consequently, most of Kiribati’s territory lies within two meters of sea level.

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache...l+Kiribati+sea+level&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us

Where does it say that thier homes will soon be under water? They are making plans based on "fears" that sea levels will rise. What a bunch of bunk and to think that supposedly intelligent people are moving based on theory rather than solid scientific evidence.

The people of Funafti in Tuvalu and on Kiribati island are lobbying to find new homes: salt water intrusion has made groundwater undrinkable and these islands are suffering increasing impacts from hurricanes and heavy seas. In the village of Saoluafata in Samoa, villagers have noticed that their coastline has retreated by as much as 50 metres in the last decade. Many of these people have had to move further inland as a result.

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache.../+Kiribati+sea+level&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us

 

[sag38]

And, where is the definitive proof that this is caused by "global warming?"

 

[targus]

Sea levels are NOT rising.

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles 2007/MornerInterview.pdf

 

[Crabtownboy]

Sea levels are NOT rising.

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles 2007/MornerInterview.pdf

Well your fellow in the link isn't quite up to date. Shucks, even the Chesapeake Bay, where I live, has seen rising levels.

But today, water levels in the Bay are increasing by about 3 millimeters a year - twice the global average. Scientists believe that is likely because the sea is not only rising, but the coastal areas in the Mid-Atlantic are slowly sinking at the same time.

[QUOTEWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sea levels on the United States' mid-Atlantic coast are rising faster than the global average because of global warming, threatening the future of coastal communities, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday.

Coastal waters from New York to North Carolina have crept up by an average of 2.4 to 4.4 millimeters (0.09 to 0.17 inches) a year, compared with an average global increase of 1.7 millimeters (0.07 inches) a year, the EPA said in a report.
\http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE50F6ZJ20090116

[/QUOTE]

Rising or falling sea level can reshape the world’s coastlines and affect some of the most densely populated areas on Earth. Not surprisingly, scientists want to understand sea level as thoroughly as possible. They have discovered that the ocean’s behavior is not uniform all over the world; neither are the factors that affect sea level. When sea level rises, it can do so for a few reasons. It can rise due to thermal expansion—the tendency of warm water to take up more space than cooler water. It can rise due to the addition of water, for instance from melting glaciers. It can also rise due to changes in salinity; fresh water is less dense than salt water and therefore takes up slightly more space than an equal mass of salt water.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6638

Rising Sea Levels
Warming Winds, Rising Tides, Bangladesh

Asia's largest rivers, the Ganges and the Bramaputra, join in the world's most extensive delta and flow into the Bay of Bengal. There lies Bangladesh, a nation of 140 million people beset by poverty and the floods of the rivers, and now also affected by rising sea level.
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache...l+rising+sea+levels&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=12&gl=us

 

[Matt Black]

I see that Flat Earthers are alive and well and living in America

 

[sag38]

Yes, I wish they would move out of this country, along with congress. We would be much better off. But, I guess every country has their share of kooks.

 

[targus]

Coastlines are changing... imagine that.

BTW - .07 inches a year is 7 inches every century and as your source points out the coastal lands are sinking.

 

[Crabtownboy]

Coastlines are changing... imagine that.

BTW - .07 inches a year is 7 inches every century and as your source points out the coastal lands are sinking.

And did you notice that a source also said with a sinking coastline and a rising sea level it only gets worse faster. You are like many Christians I know when the quote scripture ... quote and/or take out of conterxt to prove a point that is untrue.

Sag said, "Yes, I wish they would move out of this country, along with congress. We would be much better off. But, I guess every country has their share of kooks."

You might want to find out who he considers the kooks before making such a statement.


Have a blessed day.

 

[sag38]

Targus it's hopeless dealing with members of the church of global warming. The indoctrination is complete and irreversible. No rational thought or argument works to penetrate the alarmist cloud that they live in.

 

[targus]

Crabtownboy, I notice that you travel between continents quite a bit.

Do you go by rowboat or jet?

Why do you continue in contributing to global warming?

Instead of talking about global warming why aren't you adjusting your lifestyle accordingly?

 

[Crabtownboy]

Crabtownboy, I notice that you travel between continents quite a bit.

Do you go by rowboat or jet?

Why do you continue in contributing to global warming?

Instead of talking about global warming why aren't you adjusting your lifestyle accordingly?

Seems that is what God has wanted my wife and I to do the last four years. That may have ended, only time will tell.

I do live a "low carbon life" at home and when I am abroad.

How 'bout you?

Have a blessed day.

 

[targus]

Seems that is what God has wanted my wife and I to do the last four years. That may have ended, only time will tell.

Well, perhaps you should consider then that it is God that is charge of the sea levels - not you or I.

I do live a "low carbon life" at home and when I am abroad.

But not traveling between apparently.

How 'bout you?

As a carbon based life form I must contain the correct amount of carbon because I am still alive.

 

[Crabtownboy]

Well, perhaps you should consider then that it is God that is charge of the sea levels - not you or I.



But not traveling between apparently.



As a carbon based life form I must contain the correct amount of carbon because I am still alive.

Glad you are still alive.

Oh, I believe God has help in the rising sea level.