As early as 1989 and probably much sooner the UN new that urgent action on climate change was imperative. They made a conscious decision not to do anything.
“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 icecaps, 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.”
UN Predicts Disaster of Global Warming Not Checked June 30 1989
Methane Hydrates – Extended Interview Extracts With Natalia Shakhova // Published on Jul 29, 2013
These are excerpts from Nick Breeze’s interview with Natalia Shakhova at the European Geophysical Union in Vienna, 2012.
We have been thrown knowingly under the abrupt climate change bus by the people whose job it is to ensure we have a liveable planet
I'm an anti-imperialist, environmental activist and blue ocean sailor, who is passionate about the earth and all it's inhabitants without favour. Brace for imminent impact as we bare witness to the non-linear unraveling of the biosphere and habitability disappearing for most if not all complex life on the only habitable planet we know of. To quote President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’. Folks we have lost the Arctic.
Kevin Hester 
One day the pitchforks will come for these criminals.
https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=p0uhykLa27o&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DU8hbGcaOjVY%26feature%3Dshare
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Exxon Doesn’t Want Anyone to Know
Exxon Mobil is being investigated by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who alleges Exxon is defrauding their investors by hiding knowledge about the true impact of fossil fuels on our climate.
While the investigation is ongoing, and details are still being unearthed, the House of Representatives has taken up Exxon’s cause by attempting to torpedo the investigation.
http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=99963d1ea1aa6144d22c88120&id=78086e019c
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The top state prosecutors in New York and Massachusetts said on Tuesday they will refuse to comply with a subpoena from U.S. congressmen for details on their investigations into whether Exxon Mobil misled investors on climate change risks.
The moves by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey are the latest in the political and legislative fight over Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) and investigations on whether the oil company knowingly misled shareholders and the public on climate change.
Earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representatives committee on science, space and technology issued subpoenas to Schneiderman and Healey to force them to submit information on their Exxon investigations, accusing them of having a political agenda.”
http://bit.ly/2ad3oGR
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More evidence of the mendacity of the U.N. from the ever conservative Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/02/un-tries-to-hide-involvement-in-deleting-australia-from-its-climate-report
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Let’s not leave out Shell Petroleum.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/28/shell-knew-oil-giants-1991-film-warned-climate-change-danger?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Facebook
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Now the U.N. are crying about it.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56386#.WNLcyOpHaEd
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“…reviewing nearly 200 documents representing Exxon’s research and its public statements and concluding that the company “misled the public” about climate change even as its own scientists were recognizing greenhouse gas emissions as a risk to the planet…”
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It’s not as if we weren’t warned;
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“Thus, by 1968, American oil held in its hands yet another notice of its products’ world-altering side effects, one affirming that global warming was not just cause for research and concern, but a reality needing corrective action: “Past and present studies of CO2 are detailed,” the Stanford Research Institute advised. “What is lacking, however, is […] work toward systems in which CO2 emissions would be brought under control.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jan/01/on-its-hundredth-birthday-in-1959-edward-teller-warned-the-oil-industry-about-global-warming
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“Exxon provided “false and misleading assurances” to shareholders that it had factored in climate regulations and that its vast reserves of oil and gas weren’t at major risk of being left as stranded assets, New York’s lawsuit claims.”
“Senior executives, including former chief executive Rex Tillerson, who was briefly US secretary of state in the Trump administration before being abruptly fired earlier this year, took part in this facade, the lawsuit states.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/24/lawsuit-alleges-exxonmobil-deceived-shareholders-on-climate-change-rules
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1965 no less courtesy of Robin Westenra
https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/11/20/american-petroleum-institute-1965-speech-climate-change-oil-gas?fbclid=IwAR05xFa3n2Es4TX6BDP7H_KK21nHrWcxthPa6zWZYSWXQFNEL9ukKZN8iLI
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Exon Knew via “War on our Future” on Facadebook;
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More evidence should you need it, via Facadebook!
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Canada spends $1.19 billion to assist the country’s oil and gas industry, which has struggled to move energy to U.S. markets due to full pipelines. More pipeline capacity will help!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-energy/canada-gives-struggling-oil-sector-c1-6-billion-boost-idUSKBN1OH1VT
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Courtesy of Dimitri Lascaris
For The Real News, I spoke with Todd Pagglia of Stand Earth and Alex Kaufman of HuffPost about Rex Tillerson’s dubious denial that #ExxonKnew.
https://therealnews.com/stories/rex-tillerson-testifies-climate-denial-case?fbclid=IwAR1xSlxFQdW37i0iE8LqXwrB9dDieyTpTcbsptkhzy6Tz9losuzy-gOC4Jo
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They signed the death warrant for the biosphere;
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/25/headlines/coal_industry_knew_burning_fossil_fuels_causes_climate_change_as_early_as_1966?fbclid=IwAR2jrDQY-MkMsnyJIfFtvqepiercwBTjjehL5utl8PYZNbBjl6uL6Xp04UU
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