On 03/08/2019 10:40, newshound wrote:
On 03/08/2019 10:25, Spike wrote:
U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked
PETER JAMES SPIELMANN June 30, 1989

UNITED NATIONS (AP)Â* 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.


Do you have the actual link, rather than cut and paste? (Serious
request, not a stroppy doubter, as I would like to add it to my
collection of failed predictions).

Try this one too :-

ISBN 0-19-280452-9 A guide to the end of the world,
Bill McGuire, OUP, 2002