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From Tom Nelson:
President Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik today said though Maldives faces the dangers of climate change, the country would not be submerged in the Indian Ocean.
Speaking to Sri Lankan businessmen this morning during his current visit to Sri Lanka, President stressed that Maldives can be sustained through efforts to avert the dangers of climate change.
“First of all, I want give you a bit of good news. The good news is that the Maldives is not about to disappear,” President Waheed said countering the claims by his predecessor that the Maldives would be be completely submerged in the near future.
He added that foreign investors were concerned with the talks of a submerged Maldives.
Told you so: Message to Maldives president Mohammed Nasheed: your claims are BS
Maybe this announcement has something to do with it. Note the Maldives shiny new half a billion dollar golf course:
Follow the money, find the lies. It was never about sea level, or climate refugees, or disappearing islands…it is all about wealth transfer. Whine loud enough to the U.N. that those other big meanie countries are making the sea rise, and they’ll toss money your way. Say it too much, and the investors stay away.
Liars, liars, liars all.
h/t to Mark Welter
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Why does that look like a set for the game Sims?
Does this mean islands really will begin to tip if everyone stands on one side of it?????
This reminds me of an interview I once saw with Michael Bloomberg. They were talking about climate change and how dire things could be and how very concerned he was about it. The interviewer made some statement about how New York City could be underwater by 2050. Bloomberg shot down that notion as fast as he could.
Atolls and other coral islands grow upwards at the rate of sea level change. So in a natural environment there is no danger of them becoming submerged. The parts that are (semi-) permanently above the water are composed of coral sand and rubble deposited by wind and wave action and will also move up as the water level rises. However, roads and other fixed infrastructures will not be allowed to be covered by the shifting sand and rubble, hence eventually people will have to move away from the habitable parts and migrate to the uncultivated islands where the natural processes have not been interfered with.
So where is the desalination plant to water all the grass?
Global warming: e to the power of x bogey all the way round the course.
What I don’t understand is how the Maldives (average elevation 5 feet) survived the tsunami.
Well the whole damn place isn’t really that big, so I think there is a simple fix.
Shouldn’t be too difficult to put the whole thing up on stilts The touristy folks really like staying in tropical island huts up on stilts over the water anyhow. Well in places like Hong Kong, millions of people live right on the water in boats. Great for fishing; fresh out of the water into the frying pan.
Should work well in the Maldives-In-The-Air.
PS There’s actually land underneath the Maldives to put the stilts down onto.
This is because Obama stopped the seas from rising, isn’t it?
“This just in…. Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.”
Golfers with a severe hook or slice: do NOT bother to play that course.
(Wait up… they are going to need money to remedy golf ball pollution in the ocean near the course. They can still beg for more money. It’s all upside for them.)
Lordy, Lordy, we’re saved!! Another Nobel Prize for Mr Mann please and don’t scrimp on the PR.
‘The difference between men and boys is the price of their snake oil ploys.’
So the next publicity photo of the Maldives council will show them in golf clothes on the back 9?
“Liars, liars, liars all.”
Indeed! Speaking of liars, here is a relevant article…
You’re Getting Warmer…
Text by Robert H. Boyle
Busloads of excited tourists disembark every day outside Tom’s Restaurant at 2880 Broadway in Manhattan. They have come to render homage to the greasy spoon of Seinfeld sitcom fame, and they are absolutely unaware of an infinitely more important program under way upstairs on the seventh floor. There, James E. Hansen, chief of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and adjunct professor of geological sciences at Columbia University, leads a team of scientists assessing the climatic-and possibly climactic-fate of this planet as it spins into the third millennium.
Aside from the receding threat of nuclear war, no issue is more vital than the one occupying Jim Hansen and his Goddard group: climate change, popularly known as the greenhouse effect, with its potentially devastating impacts on nature and civilization. At the current rate of global warming, and as envisioned by climatologists, life on earth is hurtling toward conditions never before experienced.
By the year 2050-only as far in the future, after all, as 1950 is in the past-the global temperature could be 3 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it is now. It has not been that hot for 200,000 years, a time well before modern humans evolved. By 2075 a 5-degree jump would make the planet its hottest in 4 million years, and by the end of the coming century the earth could be as hot as it was 65 million years ago, when the dinosaurs disappeared.
Rapid heating on this scale will change the very face of the planet and cause chaos for the global environment, the economy, and politics. Glaciers will melt, and as seas heat and expand, the ocean will rise, drowning low-lying island nations and coastlines. Say sayonara to the Maldives, the Pacific atolls, Bangladesh, the Nile River delta, and much of the East and Gulf coasts of the United States. Tens of millions of people will be forced to move, and move again, in a kind of endless caravan, bearing conflict and disease. Adapted to specific climate zones, plants and animals will be hard pressed to move north; climate zones could shift 400 miles north by the end of the next century-far faster than trees and other plants spread after the retreat of the last glacier-and many species will become extinct. Old forests will burn, farmland will succumb to drought, and floods will increase.
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Competition floating in for Lootah Hotel Management (Dubai) plans of US$85 million resort in conjunction with Maldive’s Kalaidhu Investment. Abdulla Saeed (Kalaidhu) : “We are pleased to be partnering with the pioneer of Islamic hospitality in the UAE….to work towards the development of universally recognised ‘Halal standards’ for Shari’ah-compliant hotels and resorts….”
They’ve done very well for themselves, despite the ravages of the Maldives War that Obama was talking about on his visit to South America.
It is not about the poor countries giving the wealthy islands the shake-down. It is about a certain group of imperialists coming out of the wealthy countries with an end-times disaster-to-be story, going to the leaders of the poor country, feeding the story, and feeding a solution that will get the leaders of the poor country wealthy.
If only the leaders buy in to the story.
the ingredient missing is: where will the money come from?
Here, the imperialists, who don’t mind toying with poor countries because that is just what imperialists do, coalesce the power of the poor countries and go to the host imperialist coutries of the imperialist international busy-bodies, and declare that a disaster is imminent unles the imperialist countries recognize guilt or nobless oblige, or voter sentiment, and are steered toward giving appropriate scales of money.
what is needed now?
all you need is the scare. and that needs to sound science-y.
global cap and trade was almost too good ot be true. there are other things in place to get the money moving from general funds of the wealthy imperialist countries to the poorcountries, without cap and trade.
the United Nations has an arm that helps countries invest in green stuff. this is part of where the money for the leaders comes in. the leaders of the poor coutries know where to invest.
http://www.unpri.org/signatories/
^ there are all of the organizations and businesses around the globe who have declared that there will be plently of investment money looking for green investments.
this is not maldives being scared of a local threat and going to United Nations to ask for help. This is us sellling the maldives on a shake-down. The United Nations has a division that goes and teaches countries how to invest. just so long as they sign up to the cause.
Who is the investment fund manager for these green investment? Al Gore.
http://www.generationim.com/media/pdf-ft-03-11-08.pdf
Here, the employee retirement fund of the UK’s EPA is directed away from a couple investment account managers to Al Gore in order to follow the UNPRI invetment philosophy:
http://www.generationim.com/media/pdf-ge-pressrelease-09-08-08.pdf
To summarize: the Prez of the Maldives did not come to Al Gore as a high-up American official.
Al Gore went to the Maldives and convinved their prez that the Maldives were about to sink, unless the Maldives prez joined the labor union, er, the poor countries that are being drowned by the big complanies.
It was only ever about money, although with population reduction plans eugenics gave money a close run. Hopefully the AGW barrel of lies is on its deathbed and the funeral will be soon.
These floating islands, are merely a Dutch Architect’s Fantasy, and do not exist beyound the drawing board, and artist’s photoshop rendering. We shall see whether, as the article claims, £320 million would even be enough to build the golf course, let alone constuct the “islands”. Bear in mind that a new golf course recently constructed on dry land in Scotland, by Donald Trump, is costing more than three times as much as that to build. No expensive floating island technology was required in Scotland we hear.
See the fantasy website of the Dutch Architects :
http://www.dutchdocklands.com/
See a real golf course, built on dry land here:
http://www.trumpgolfscotland.com/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&PageId=278788
There is no comparison. Who will pay the Billions of pounds which are actually required to bring the Dutchmens fantasy to life. Which “shipyards” can build giant floating islands for less than the cost of a single freight carrier ship, a fraction of the size of these proposed “islands”? The numbers don’t add up for me. To put things in perspective, a Chinese built “Vale Class” Freighter which measures approx 360 Metres (Bow to Stern), by 65 Metres (Across the Beam), cost more that a Billion Pounds to construct. Whither now the £350 Million golf course in the Maldives?
Reports are that Rajendra Pachauri wants to make the Maldives a steak!
“I didn’t think those people even like meat.”
http://youtu.be/eTNmSwDt5kc
H.R. says:
August 24, 2012 at 11:11 am
Nah, they’re going to rely on all those golfballs to create a new foundation for fresh coral growth to increase the area of habital land.
Nary a mention of the children.
Cretins.
@archonix says:
August 24, 2012 at 1:16 pm
Responding to H.R. says:
August 24, 2012 at 11:11 am
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“Nah, they’re going to rely on all those golfballs to create a new foundation for fresh coral growth to increase the area of habital land.”
The way I hit the ball, if I stayed and played for a week, the island would get an immediate 30cm boost from all the golfballs I’d lose. Maybe I should put in to the UN for funds to solve the Maldives’ sea level problem, eh? After all, it’s all “for the children”, doncha know.
This is what Anthony said in the told-you-so post: “Anything coming out of the mouths of Maldives officials related to climate, CO2, or sea level is pure bullshit.” Apparently he doesn’t feel this way any more. Why?
REPLY: Yes it still is, they seek money and investment, climate is just a tool. Your point?
gerrydorrian66 says:
August 24, 2012 at 1:00 pm
gerrydorrian66 says – many things, but – amongst other things which I have little expertise in: –
“To put things in perspective, a Chinese built “Vale Class” Freighter which measures approx 360 Metres (Bow to Stern), by 65 Metres (Across the Beam), cost more that a Billion Pounds to construct”.
No.
Nothing like that.
Not a tenth of that!
Probably 110-120 million dollars – the Vale class are bulk carriers, and bulkers are really simple to build. Big silos, with an engine and a small [steel] apartment house, plus auxilliary machinery, pumps, winches, radars and so on. At about fifteen knots, they use about 40,000 horsepower, so a fair bit of cash goes on the diesel – engine.
And the fuel – a hundred tonnes/tons a day of HFO – the very bottom of the crack, not good enough to mend roads, but it still goes about $500-600 a tonne.
Better than a million dollars a month!
120 million dollars is about 75-80 million pounds [depending on exchange rate].
Shipping uses dollars, mostly.
Expensive – seriously expensive – ships include LNG carriers – up to 300 million or so, for a ‘Q-Max’ [about 250,000 cuic metres of liquid natural gas at -159 Celsius]; and passenger vessels – like the Costa Concordia which was over $500 million [double that for the biggest ones – at over 200,000 gross tonnes – a measure of volume, not weight].
Mind – the figures quoted for the Maldivian ‘islands’ are still very low indeed – even if a Burmese yard could do the job [No, it couldn’t,]
My guess – eight pods [each with three golf holes], so allowing six in use at any time and two refurbishing or dry-docking, each about 400m by 150 m by 20m deep, with minimal pumps – at $100 million each, so $800 million, plus two central islands [with the de-salination plants, clubhouses, etc [smaller but more complex, so similar costs] each at $100 million – so – broad brush, arm-waving figure – a billion dollars.
Oh Mohammed Nasheed a BSer? Yes, but a focussed guy. Knew him at college. Tolerably good publicist. How much do you hear about – say – the Marshall Islands? Tuvalu? The Grenadines?
And possibly more honest than his successor [who I do not know].
Smooth seas to you all.