Nauru is threatened by the ‘greenhouse effect’: if global warming of the earth causes sea levels rise... (Iraq, independence)

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What they want you to believe.

Nauru is threatened by the ‘greenhouse effect’: if global warming of the earth causes sea levels rise, the habitable low-lying land areas will be at risk from tidal surges and flooding.

It must be true, global warming is killing this poor, small island off.

This will cause a grown man to sob... read this poem.

ASPECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING

Not long ago, Tuvalu contained a number of beautiful islets. It is sad to have to say that many of these beautiful and enchanting islets have now gone underwater and one would have to wonder if Tuvalu will be next!

A Tuvalu Poem

TUVALU AND GLOBAL WARMING
Jane Resture

I hear the waves on our island shore
They sound much louder than they did before
A rising swell flecked with foam
Threatens the existence of our island home.

A strong wind blows in from a distant place
The palm trees bend like never before
Our crops are lost to the rising sea
And water covers our humble floor.

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Of course, Tuvalu will be in line to receive millions in the Cap and Trade money as rich nations share their bounty with poor nations who suffer at global warming.

But what really happened?

Had nothing to do with global warming. These people SOLD their island piece by piece, shovelful by shovelful.

The island was exported.

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00016/1nauro-210208_16989s.jpg (broken link)
A horrible tragedy it is but nothing to do with global warming as many would have us believe.

A commission of inquiry later found they violated international law by failing to restore Nauru to "usable condition". However, mining continued after independence in 1968, and during the 1970s and 1980s the locals grew fabulously rich. The island had a shipping line and airline, with seven planes and half a dozen ships. No matter that two-thirds of Naura was uninhabitable.

Presidents would commandeer aircraft to take their wives shopping in Melbourne, New York and Singapore. Households owned three cars, including, in one case, a Lamborghini, although the island has a 40kph (25mph) speed limit and only one 12-mile circular paved road. Jobs were plentiful, housing free, and no one paid tax. Children went to the best schools in Australia and Nauruans gave lavish gifts, such as three-piece suites.


Eventually the bubble burst, as a result of corruption, mismanagement and sheer profligacy – and by 2001, when a Norwegian freighter rescued 438 asylum-seekers heading for Australia, the country was broke. Little wonder it was Nauru that Canberra approached – after it had refused to allow the Afghans and Iraqis to land – with promises of generous foreign aid.