Essay by Eric Worrall
In UN fantasy land, rising sea levels will cause a mass exodus from London, New York and Shanghai, and “ever fiercer competition” for resources.
‘Mass exodus on a biblical scale’: UN warns New York, London, Shanghai to be impacted by rising sea levels
The UN says an estimated 900 million people, or more than one in ten of the world’s population, will be affected by rising sea levels around the world.
- The UN’s Secretary General has warned the Security Council of rising sea levels.
- He said approximately 900 million people living near water are at high risk.
- The Australia Institute says Australia is already being affected.
The UN has warned of an incoming mass exodus from rising sea levels caused by climate change.
Mega-cities on every continent will face serious impacts, including Lagos, Bangkok, Mumbai, Shanghai, London, Buenos Aires and New York, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council.
Mr Guterres said rising waters will cause a new type of conflict where people, companies or countries will be fighting for land.
“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,” he said.
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Read more: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/mass-exodus-on-a-biblical-scale-un-warns-new-york-london-shanghai-to-be-impacted-by-rising-sea-levels/ihyrm9c4r
My question – how can anyone take these sea level rise claims seriously?
People have been battling the sea and winning for thousands of years.
Take the city of Venice, Italy. Venice began as fishermen living on impoverished, difficult to reach islands, separated by water from the barbarian chaos of the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Refugees from the mainland began arriving en-masse in the year 584AD, after the Lombard barbarian hordes invaded Italy.
Ever since the mass settlement of Venice, Venetians have been battling the sea and winning, and turned their humble islands of fishing shacks into one of the architectural marvels of the world.
The US city of Seattle dealt with flood risk by raising their street level an entire floor level, creating the Seattle Underground.
Chicago jacked up entire buildings when they raised their streets in the mid 1800s – one of the jacked up building structures weighed an estimated 35,000 tons.
Netherlands has been building sea walls and pumps for centuries – a sizeable part of the Netherlands farmland would be tidal flats or even permanently underwater, without a vast and continuous effort to hold back the sea.
Much of Singapore is reclaimed land – land which was once sea, which has been filled with concrete, sand and steel, and converted into dry land.
Sea level rise is no threat to anyone, except for people who give up, because they believe the UN’s absurd climate alarmism and sea level rise claims.
At some point the UN should simply say “send us all your money and we will shut up.” Face facts, thats IS what it is all about.
They really love using religion (which they usually despise) as an argument…
Auckland could get >80cm sea level rise by the end of the century. Honest. Scientists say, and the science is settled…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rising-tides-whats-in-store-for-nzs-three-biggest-cities/4VUIHQZIIPLF3UA6CCC5MZZW5E/#:~:text=In%20the%20heart%20of%20Auckland,1m%20by%20mid%20next%20century.
If they said 80mm, they might be somewhere near correct !
The Mail dramatises:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11755149/Map-reveals-areas-plunged-underwater-2050-amid-sea-level-rise.html
The comments reveal that the public are by and large unimpressed.
I’m most encouraged by the comments in the Daily Mail article. It seems ordinary people are waking up to the lies and deceit of the Alarmists. All their failed predictions are finally beginning to have an effect.
“In UN fantasy land, rising sea levels will cause……..ever fiercer competition” for resources”.
What about all the extra fish?
Sea level rise is going to take a big hit very soon. When the AMO goes negative the trend will decrease significantly. No city is going to disappear under the water. The Arctic will cool and so will much of the NH extratropical regions.
What happens next should be very interesting. If the fascists don’t already have control then we should return to normal quite quickly. Everyone will claim it was only a few nutjobs. Lets hope people remember and prosecute those pushing climate alarmism.
Why did Obama spend $12 million of his own money to buy a house that is about 12 feet above sea level on a beach in Massachusetts?
When they act like it is a problem, I will believe it is a problem.
OMG! Not again! More asinine prophecies from UN idiots posing as scientists. I didn’t just fall off the turnip wagon last nite, and I seem to recall this kind of BS many times over the last 40 or so years if not longer.
Let’s disband the UN and move it to an island somewhere in the arctic. Just sayin’.
When I was a kid we fished a tidal inlet that had a secondary road bridge that attracted fish under it. There were painted marks on one of the abutments. We were told by very authoritative sounding adults that they marked the sea level every year to show how the oceans were rising as the polar ice caps melted. It made sense to us, we never questioned it. Thirty years later they were rebuilding the bridge which interfered with our fishing there. We asked why they were doing that and they told us the bridge foundation and the abutments that sat on it were sinking so much the road level had dropped precipitously. We laughed so hard that day. I still think of that when I hear all these “experts” driveling on about global warming. The experts we believed as kids are all dead now, nobody to paint lines on the bridge anymore….
Headline I saw today on Ars Technica: “The coastline is at risk from rising seas, and we’re making more of it”. It goes on to say that most of these expansions are occurring in low-lying areas. Who would have thought?
If coastlines are so problematic, why would we be making more of it? That in itself seems to show that we can handle the sea level problem.
Can’t wait til it floods Obloejob’s new digs in Mass.!
Mr Guterres said rising waters will cause a new type of conflict where people, companies or countries will be fighting for land.
Or they could just move to where there are better opportunities when they feel the need, just like the hundreds of millions of people who moved from rural areas to cities did.
Billions of people thinking for themselves and responding intelligently to ever-changing opportunities and environments is beyond the ability of the ruling elite to comprehend. They can’t fathom how all the rabble thrive without their omniscient guiding hand. They are the worst kind of helicopter parents; autocratic, unimaginative, uncomprehending, and unsympathetic.
From the article: “He said approximately 900 million people living near water are at high risk.”
That has to be one of the more ridiculous statements I have heard out of the climate change alarmists.
A rise of 2mm per year is “high risk”? The 900 million people referred to will be long dead before sea level rise becomes a “high risk”.
The climate change alarmists get more ridiculous every day.
Sacramento jacked up the entire city one storey! Clearly London will build a big sea wall, the land is worth too much
Time to build the B Ark for the climate doomers to escape in.
And there is a bonus payment if you move out a week early so the new owners can begin their party planning for the next COP seaside meetings and rentals.
Fear-mongering on steroids.
Yes. Because, you know, humans can’t possibly build a seawall faster than 3mm per year./sarc
Biblical scale? Like “Red Sea Pedestrians”?