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mricyfire
10/17/09

In reply to Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming
scientist always looking unrealistically into the futures...100 years is a long ass time 2109 to be exact im sure we will have technology to adapt to these conditions. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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phunnyballs
10/17/09

@mricyfire: we wont have the tech if nobody cares about it and puts it off till then.... #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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SEDAGIVE?!
10/17/09

@mricyfire: I believe the technology for the Maldives to adapt to rising ocean levels exist.

Boats. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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Ghede
10/18/09

@SEDAGIVE?!: "Although they first appeared around 2100, the sea gypsies did not appear from nowhere. There was once an island..." #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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Aishar
10/17/09

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climate change may be or may not be myth... but why the hell should the maldivians and other low lying nations bet on that questions with their lives ?
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switchblade saints
10/17/09

@Aishar: migrate. Why go down with the sinking ship, regardless of what sinking it? #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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PhantomTrace
10/17/09

@Aishar: How about renewable energy for every country to attain as power consumption... excluding non-renewable for only post Armageddon events. Save the Earth. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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switchblade saints
10/17/09

@PhantomTrace: what is this Norway? Thats crazy talk #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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otko
10/17/09

In reply to Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming
Maldives was a city, landlocked,
hundreds of miles from the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean. Yet so desperate the city's desire for tourism, that they moved offshore, becoming an island and an even bigger Delta hub. Until the city overdeveloped and it started to sink. Knowing their fate, the quality people ran away: Ted Turner, Hank Aaron, Jeff Foxworthy, the guy who invented Coca Cola, the magician
And the other so-called gods of our legends, though gods they were,
And also Jane Fonda was there.

*I have nothing of worth to contribute to this post. I'm sorry. I've got no place else to go. And I never learned to read.
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switchblade saints
10/17/09

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"in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to join me is more than welcome."

"sign here if you are in" #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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mattycakes
10/17/09

@switchblade saints: I know the movie you speak of, but I have not seen it. Worth watching? #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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switchblade saints
10/18/09

@mattycakes: yes indeed #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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switchblade saints
10/17/09

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"coffee or tea anyone? Cookies? the meeting will start shortly when Mr. Johnson gets in to call the meeting.." #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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switchblade saints
10/17/09

@switchblade saints:

"SHAAAAAAAAARK!!" #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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Demonbird
10/17/09

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Global warming is funny, because most of its main proponents do nothing but profit from the idea.
They shouldn't be believed because of that.

Also, when you tell me a glacier in peru is melting, yes, ice melts over time.
This doesn't mean the communists are corrupting your precious bodily fluids.
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chauncy that billups
10/17/09

@Demonbird: yes, couldn't have said it better myself. One bad tsunami or typhoon and that island is toast. "global warming" has nothing to do with it. Seriously, people are still peddling that sack of shit? Don't they know it's called climate change now? You kind of have to rename it; cold temps are breaking records all over the world and global mean temps have not risen since 1998. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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fogmaster
10/17/09

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except for the fact that there is no proof of global warming... #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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switchblade saints
10/17/09

@fogmaster: there is proof that temperatures were way warmer 10 years ago then they are now. We should be freaked out about global cooling

HA #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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fogmaster
10/17/09

@switchblade saints: If I remember... we are overdue for another ice age here... #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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switchblade saints
10/17/09

@fogmaster: indeed. I'm spraying CFC's just in case #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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skierpage
10/18/09

@switchblade saints: 1998 was the warmest year ever. You can look at the graphs at NASA GISS but if you don't trust your government, here's what the UK Met Office says "All the years from 2000 to 2008 have been in the top 14 warmest years on record."

The retreat of glaciers and reduction in arctic ice will continue unless temps drop a LOT more. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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pwnerjam4.0
10/17/09

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global warming = bogus #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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PN - gooapplesoft
10/17/09

@pwnerjam4.0: you = troll. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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SEDAGIVE?!
10/17/09

@PN - gooapplesoft: Stating a prominent opinion amongst climatoligists is trolling? #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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iMiiTH
10/17/09

@pwnerjam4.0: You=True #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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Pope John Peeps II
10/17/09

In reply to Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming
Gwynne Dyer, a Canadian military and foreign affairs journalist, once suggested an interesting possibility for the future:

That a number of these poor countries most at risk from rising sea levels might join together and engage in an individual process of geo-engineering, like unilaterally launching missiles that will carry a reflective dust into the upper atmosphere.

To be fair, since they're facing being wiped out by an industrial process they're not benefitting from, and since the major industrial countries are effectively sacrificing them, it's not outside the realm of possibility. Everyone gets to fight for existence. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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PorkPie
10/17/09

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Hey, how do we stop the planet from changing due to forces that may or may not be under our control?

I know! A publicity stunt! #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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Pope John Peeps II
10/17/09

@PorkPie: Hey man, when you're poor and rich countries won't listen to you, you don't have many options.

What would YOU suggest? #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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PorkPie
10/17/09

@Pope John Peeps II: I don't think no one is listening to them. Anyone who's on the global warning train should be well aware of the hypothetical rising sea level. Mostly, the hundreds of millions of other people living within 3 feet of sea level outweigh the 350,000 Maldives.

Send an emissary to the climate change summit. Arm him with a computer model.

If you were authoring a global initiative on environmental concerns regarding climate change, would you be more moved by a demonstration of what would happen to maldives if the sea level goes up, or a couple of photographs of an underwater board meeting? #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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Pope John Peeps II
10/17/09

@PorkPie: Nobody gives a shit about climate change meetings. Nobody in the industrial world gives a shit about port cities. Nobody gives a shit about anything. So why the fuck NOT have an underwater cabinet meeting?

To be frank, THIS will make it into about 80 bajillion more news outlets than a "Climate Change meeting", which will make it into approximately....oh.... ZERO. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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PorkPie
10/17/09

@Pope John Peeps II: It absolutely will. As a sideshow. If exposure is all you're looking for, you might as well do it naked, too, because it doesn't lend any credibility to your cause. Why not do it? Because it costs money and won't do anything. That's why not. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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Pope John Peeps II
10/17/09

@PorkPie: Well, it's great of you to be so high and mighty.... except for the fact that we're talking about this. You saw this. And what's the last "climate change meeting" you talked about? The last one you saw?

I don't think I have to make the argument when the argument is ACTUALLY SELF-EVIDENT. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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92BuickLeSabre
10/17/09

@PorkPie: "I don't think no one is listening to them."

Tuvalu disagrees. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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skiterr
10/17/09

@Pope John Peeps II: Last time I checked media and the government is yakking about the climate change 24/7, Al Fucking Gore won a Noble prize for raising awareness about global warming - and that was just last year. Nobody is talking about these meetings because except for the media, nobody believes in global warming. And you know why nobody believes it, because it's not happening, even the inventors of global warming don't believe it, that's why they renamed it "climate change". #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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deanbmmv
10/17/09

@skiterr: "the inventors of global warming", lemme guess, they come from the same place as "The Elders of The Internet"?
The issues isn't whether or not there is Global Warming, but why it's being caused.
Its potentially a natural cycle for the Earth, like the middle of the Ice Ages, Or it could be cuased by increased industrial activity by man.
Or a large amount of rice n cows.
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switchblade saints
10/17/09

@deanbmmv: 98% of carbon emission is released from dying plants and volcanoes. Forget the 2% or so that man creates, we need to plug those volcanoes and keep all the plants alive!

war on volcanoes!!! ha #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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Pope John Peeps II
10/17/09

@skiterr: Oh please. Nobody's talking shit about Global Warming. There's nothing in the media of any substance, no calls for any reduction, no coverage of pollution accords between countries, nothing nobody nothing anywhere. For you to say there is just proves how unbelievably biased you are against climate science.

And Global Warming IS an inaccurate term. It's a little silly. Climate Change is far more appropriate. it's a deadly problem, and to be honest, there's no way to get it through to idiots like you. You're like Birthers, or Truthers, or weirdo Creationists - just totally fucking reamed by your own self-importance.

Just admit that you WANT not to believe in Climate Science, and then you'll be able to find loads more evidence to support yourself. You're already inventing things, just be honest about it.

I'll be honest: 98% of carbon emission being released from "volcanoes and dying plants" is maybe the stupidest, dumbest bullshit I've ever heard in my entire life. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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switchblade saints
10/17/09

@Pope John Peeps II: I was being sarcastic, poking fun at Ian Plimer's claim of this to be true. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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Oxidesnake
10/17/09

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So what's the problem? Obviously they just proved that the could carry on with their lives underwater... #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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92BuickLeSabre
10/17/09

@Oxidesnake: Indeed. I know feel reassured and am headed outside to idle my car for no apparent reason. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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