Months and months of heavy rain means many of the lakes around Rotorua are reaching levels not seen in 50 years, flooding nearby boat ramps, playgrounds and properties.
“An inconvenient truth” came out it 2006. That’s more than a decade ago. The kyoto protocol to curb emissions was passed in 1997. The Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that human-made CO2 emissions are driving it.
Many did, but then on the flip side there were screeds of media voices lying (willfully or ignorantly) and telling everybody to ignore Al Gore & all the other people warning of the same thing.s
This is exactly my point, it’s only been in the last decade or so that global warming being a reality has been generally accepted. It’s easy to say in retrospect that they should have known, not so easy to know at the time.
“An inconvenient truth” came out it 2006. That’s more than a decade ago. The kyoto protocol to curb emissions was passed in 1997. The Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that human-made CO2 emissions are driving it.
Do you think normal people listened to Al Gore?
Many did, but then on the flip side there were screeds of media voices lying (willfully or ignorantly) and telling everybody to ignore Al Gore & all the other people warning of the same thing.s
This is exactly my point, it’s only been in the last decade or so that global warming being a reality has been generally accepted. It’s easy to say in retrospect that they should have known, not so easy to know at the time.
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I agree that they were built before then. I don’t agree that they were all bought before then.