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In 2001, when our research group found overwhelming evidence that sea level was by no means in a rising mode in the Maldives, but had remained quite stable for the last 30 years, I thought it would not be respectful to the fine people of the Maldives if I were to return home and present our results in international fora. Therefore, I announced this happy news during an interview for your local TV station. However, your predecessor as president censored and stopped the broadcast.
When you became president, Iwas hoping both for democracy and for dialogue. However, I have written to you twice without reply. Your people ought not to have to suffer a constant claim that there is no future for them on their own islands. This terrible message is deeply inappropriate, since it is founded not upon reality but upon an imported concept, which lacks scientific justification and is thus untenable. There is simply no rational basis for it.
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(1) In the last 2000 years, sea level has oscillated with 5 peaks reaching 0.6 to 1.2 m above the present sea level.
(2) From 1790 to 1970 sea level was about 20 cm higher than today.
(3) In the 1970s, sea level fell by about 20 cm to its present level.
(4) Sea level has remained stable for the last 30 years, implying that there are no traces of any alarming on-going sea level rise.
(5) Therefore, we are able to free the Maldives (and the rest of low-lying coasts and island around the globe) from the condemnation of becoming flooded in the near future.…
And let us, for Heaven’s sake, lift the terrible psychological burden that you and your predecessor have placed upon the shoulders of all people in the Maldives, who are now living with the imagined threat that flooding will soon drive them from their homes, a wholly false notion that is nothing but an armchair fiction artificially constructed by mere computer modelling constantly proven wrong by meticulous real-world observations.
El cielo no caerá sobre nuestras cabezas, señor Presidente! Carta completa aquí.
La carta de Morner es genial pero no creo que sirva para que rectifiquen las autoridades de las Maldivas. Están muy bien aleccionados por los burócratas del IPCC, que les han prometido una lluvia de millones por la mala conciencia de los países ricos ante los supuestos «crímenes climáticos» que cometemos emitiendo CO2. Y si ese dinero sirviera para sacar del subdesarrollo a esos países diría que no hay mal que por bien no venga, pero es muy posible que el 99% terminara en los bolsillos del presidente y sus ministros buceadores.
No, la verdad es que con la frase quería adjetivar la relación carta de Nils-Axel Mörner con la cara del presidente de las Maldivas. Creo que no hacen falta viñetas!
Rápidamente:
¡ZAS! ¡En toda la boca!
Geralt, si querías enlazarnos algo … no ha funcionado
Merci Manin.
Grâce a toi nous aurons des cours d´anglais gratuit.
Vous pouvez continuer comme ça les gars!
No, tendremos que volver al castellano, que hemos de pensar en los Zapateros del planeta, Haddock 😀
A todo esto, qué os ha parecido la carta de Mörner?
Mr Manin. I don’t doubt you read many books for enlightenment, so many in fact that you have ended being an «iluminado».
To Luis: You really should translate the book just in case Zapatero visits your blog. 🙂
JFM, you really think Zapatero would understand something, even in Castilian?
Geralt, I would waste the time if writing for Zealots and illuminated. It’s not the case, you know 🙂
Don’t you waste your time Luis, as it is more and more evident day after day, AGW is not a scientific (never inconvenient) truth, but rather a quite Truth Revealed to Our Ever Lovemost Leader and His Advocates. Problem is that, as any other religion in its origins, It has got many Zealots…
Most of our readers uses english perfectly, Manin.
Anyway, if you think that I must translate a text because you are worth it, are you thinking that «I must use Oil of Ulaz because Claudia Schiffer believe she is worth it» too?
Que poco te trabajas las cosas, ni te molestas en traducir. Te recomiendo un libro, se que es inutil, pero quien sabe igual te ilumina:
http://www.amazon.com/Climate-Cover-Up-Crusade-Global-Warming/dp/1553654854
Seguro que tu sabes que Exxon financia el negacionsimo a travé de think tanks y luego tontos útiles como tú hacen el resto (Tonto útil si no cobras claro).