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BerichtGeplaatst: 13-09-2018 03:09:44    Onderwerp: President Donald Trump Reageren met citaat
by Matthew Rusling


MIAMI Rasheem Green Jersey , the United States, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- As bad as Hurricane Irma is, an even more insidious threat is coming, as climate change causes sea levels to slowly rise and threatens to put large chunks of the U.S. state of Florida under water.


While ocean levels have risen and fallen over tens of thousands of years, they have remained the same over the past 5,000 or 6,000 years, since the dawn of recorded human history.


Now, however, is the first time in recorded history that they are changing.


"South Florida's doomsday doesn't come with a hurricane. It just comes very quietly as the water creeps up," Daniel Kreeger, executive director of the Association of Climate Change Officers, told Xinhua.


"We're so close to sea level that if sea level is rising, there's a point where you don't need a storm (to do harm). You're just underwater," he said.


That sits in sharp contrast with just two decades ago, when the main concern of residents and property owners was hurricanes, he said.


Now, low lying cities worldwide, from Mumbai to Bangkok to right here in southern Florida, are under the same threat.


According to images collected by NASA, global sea levels have risen 3 inches (7.6 cm) since 1992.


The U.S. National Ocean Service said global sea levels will likely continue to rise, although it remains unknown by how much.


Some experts said that could spell disaster for southern Florida, which includes Miami and the surrounding area.


A confluence of factors puts Miami under particular risk. For one thing, the city lies on a foundation of limestone, which allows water to seep through from underneath and come up through the sewers and drainage system to cause flooding.


That can happen during the king tide season -- a time of higher-than-usual tides -- and can in some cases happen without even a drop of rain.


City officials, politicians and climate change experts with whom Xinhua has spoken said this confluence of factors -- rising sea levels, a limestone foundation and king tides -- threaten to make large parts of the area uninhabitable.


While it remains unknown whether that will take decades or a century, local residents said it seems to be getting worse.


Jose, a waiter at a downtown Miami hotel who only gave his first name, said even a couple of hours of rain can flood the streets in certain neighborhoods in Miami.


"I've been here all my life and I don't remember it being this bad when I was a kid," he told Xinhua a couple of days before the hurricane hit.


"Just a couple of weeks ago there was a couple of hours of rain and already the water was up here," Jose said, demonstrating with his hands that water was above his ankles.


Danny, an Uber driver in downtown Miami, echoed those sentiments, telling Xinhua that rainfall causes light flooding in some streets as he traverses the area.


Some in the real estate business said Florida may be the next big real estate investment destination for foreign investors including Chinese. But if parts of the state see more frequent flooding, that trend could reverse.


Southern Florida is historically a major retirement destination for Americans, a party place for the rich and famous, and boasts a vibrant Cuban community that has lived there since the 1960s, many of whom are wealthy.


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BEIJING, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- China's central bank skipped open market operations Friday to maintain stable liquidity in the banking system.


Liquidity was at a "relatively high level," which can offset the influence from factors such as maturing reverse repos, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) said on its website.


On Friday, reverse repos worth 90 billion yuan (about 14.3 billion U.S. dollars) matured.


A reverse repo is a process by which the central bank purchases securities from commercial banks through bidding, with an agreement to sell them back in the future.


The central bank has increasingly relied on open market operations for liquidity management, rather than cuts to interest rates or reserve requirement ratios.


China will maintain a prudent and neutral monetary policy in 2018 as the world's second-largest economy strives to balance growth with risk prevention.



U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak to March for Life participants and pro-life leaders at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington D.C., the United States, on Jan. 19, 2018. (XinhuaTing Shen)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. House Intelligence Committee released a disputed classified memo alleging the FBI and Justice Department abused their surveillance powers to favor Democrats during the Russia probe following the authorization of President Donald Trump on Friday.


"The Committee has now determined that the release of the Memorandum would be appropriate," said the committee in a statement on its website, citing "significant public interest in disclosure."


"I think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country... A lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that," Trump said in the Oval Office on Friday.


The four-page memo claimed that the probe of the FBI and Justice Department into the so-called Russia meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections represents "a troubling breakdown of legal processes," citing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.


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