Since most of the worlds population lives on the coast, this is the most effective way to scare the most people in a short time. This whole idea of politics is to keep people in a state of fear. That way they will gladly trade freedom for security

I was tired of it 20 years ago. Now it is just background noise. These idiots always consider themselves geniuses to repeat the same tired nonsense and redrawing the lines the lines in the sand. Instead of admitting that they were making ridiculous exaggerations to push an agenda, alarmists can't help but defend these tired predictions because the boy has cried wolf too many times already. Only the really gullible still listen. I am detecting a shrillness and desperation.

That is not what Noel Brown said. That is what the reporter said in his article. Skeptic?

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GREENHOUSE WARMING NATIONS MAY VANISH, U.N. SAYS

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 United Nations U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP..>>

The only wording which can be attributed to Noel Brown is "eco.refugees" as indicated by the quote-marks. And as is obvious from reading the article, it doesn't say that nations will vanish as from the year 2000; it says that the TREND must be reverted in order to avoid vanishing nations in the future.

Edit @Sagebrush:

<<1. If he didn't say that where is the timely retraction by either party?>>

Great, so now quotes are true unless specifically retracted? LMAO. Furthermore, your second argument shows you are not an expert on how to correctly use quotes.

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My guess is that the clueless AP reporter left it in there. Quotes are written using quotation marks; anything else is just the reporter's interpretation of what someone said.

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You did, for change. But see if you can spot the fundamental difference between what you wrote in Update 3 <> and the first line of this question <>?

PS Found the whole article.Updated link below

Edit 2 @ Sage:

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How on earth can you claim that when you have not proven anything? In what universe do you live to make such a ridiculous claim? Heck, you even changed your original claim ("Quote by Noel Brown") to "quote from this article". That a reporter claims something was said doesn't mean that you can attribute what the reporter wrote as a quote to the person being interviewed! That is what quotation marks are for.

<<...will be deemed utter prevarications.>>

Don't talk to me about prevarications when you are the one who deliberately copy/pastes long debunked quotes in almost every single answer you give (ie, like the David Viner one where again you attributed something actually said by the reporter to the person being interviewed and build your entire question on that misattribution).

Obama said now is the time when the oceans stop their rise, and for a few years sea level went down. We are seeing a few mm per year of sea level rise. From this they conclude meters of sea level rise in 100 years.

The US Navy says so and so do the insurance companies. Ocean shippers and port cities are also planning on significant change as well. Agri business also understands the direction that we're going. In a world that's 3/4 water not understanding, or worse, refusing to understand the significants of what's rapidly moving in our direction.

I'm a little tired of denialists misquoting something from the last century as though it were current news.

Stop lying and we won't have to correct you. Problem solved

Not nearly as tired as i am of religious fundamentalists and political conservatives acting like they know more about science than astrophysicists or professors from Oxford

The quote says that the warming must be reversed by 2000, not that the problems will be seen in 2000.

If that is the actual quote. Your source?

a little bit

Quote by Noel Brown, UN official: "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."

have you been to miami lately?

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