The WUWT Hotsheet for Wednesday October 16th 2013

There’s a revealing line in the Coal Surging article that shows the author has no idea what she’s writing about: “the rapidly expanding economies in the East are turning to coal since it is cheaper and more reliable than oil or renewable energy sources….” Few here would disagree that coal is cheaper and more reliable than renewable energy sources. But except in the rare instance of an ancient oil-fired power plant being retired, no one is actually turning from oil to coal, since nowadays they’re used for completely different purposes – coal to burn in power plants to produce electricity and oil to make gasoline, jet fuel, heating oil and diesel. What’s actually happening is that the rapidly expanding economies in the East are building new power plants right and left and burning even more coal than they did before. They’re also consuming more oil than before for their rapidly expanding vehicle fleets. It’s as if the author happened to notice that total hot dog sales were greater than sales of 2x4s and concluded that people are turning from 2x4s to hot dogs. But that’s mass media journalism today.

As long as they are pushing the socialist agenda, all sins are forgiven. It worked with Weiner and Clinton (Weiner just had the audacity to repeat his performance after doing a mea culpa).

Ioane Teitiota, 37, asked New Zealand’s High Court in Auckland to let him appeal a decision that refused him asylum on the grounds his claim fell short of the legal criteria, such as fear of persecution or threats to his life.

Other reports from back in early October (like this one) mention that he is seeking to become the ‘world’s first climate refugee‘. By another sheer coincidence I was trying to find out who the world’s first climate refugees are / were and compiling one of my lists.
Below are the world’s first climate refugees. 🙂

The West Australian – 24 November 1954
Canada Will Shift Arctic Dwellers
Canada’s largest Arctic community, threatened with sinking through melting permafrost terrain at Aklavik, 70 miles south of the Arctic Ocean, will be moved to a new location.
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United Nations Environment Programme – 6 December 2005
Pacific Island Villagers First Climate Change “Refugees”
A small community living in the Pacfic island chain of Vanuatu has become one of, if not the first, to be formally moved out of harms way as a result of climate change. The villagers have been relocated higher into the interior of Tegua,……
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Washington Post – 20 August 2006
Last week, environmentalist Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, released a report that called the quarter of a million Katrina evacuees who will not return home “the world’s first climate refugees.”
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The Bhola Islanders have been described as some of the world’s first climate refugees. In 2007, a Bangladeshi scientist stated: “We’re already seeing hundreds of thousands of climate refugees moving into slums in Dhaka.”
Chicago Tribune – 2 May 2007
The first refugees of global warming
Bangladesh watches in horror as much of the nation gives way to sea
On Bangladesh‘s southern coast, erosion driven in part by accelerating glacier melt and unusually intense rains already has scoured away half of Bhola Island, which once covered an area nearly 20 times the size of Chicago. Land disputes, many driven by erosion, now account for 77 percent of Bangladesh’s legal suits.
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BBC Archive – 30 October 2008
Carterets Islanders have become the world’s first climate change refugees, according to a recent United Nations report. The 1500 residents of Carteret Islands…
Guardian – 25 November 2005
Pacific Atlantis: first climate change refugees
In the week before 150 countries meet in Montreal to discuss how to combat global warming and rising sea levels, the Carterets’ people became the first to be officially evacuated because of climate change.
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The Nation – 30 March 2008
According to the geologist Sugata Hazra, who is the director of the School of Oceanography Studies at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University, the people of the Sundarbans are the first global-warming refugees. He said: ‘These people are victims of global warming. The accelerated melt of the Himalayan glacier…
the-south-asian Life & Times – April – June 2009
Rising sea-levels are already beginning to flood many of the small islands within the Sundarbans – creating thereby the world’s first climate change refugees.
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Inside Climate News – 15 June 2009
Kivalina, a small Inupiat village in northwestern Alaska, is being forced to relocate. Its 400 residents will shortly become some of the world’s first climate refugees.
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Mother Jones – November/December 2009 Issue
Meet the people of Tuvalu, the world’s first climate refugees.

Tuvalu, like any coral island, self-adjusts to the sea level. It’s what coral likes to do. Unless humans scroo up the coral builders and eaters.

I’ve noticed before but never found any discussion about it – Tuvalu’s sea level went down dramatically beginning in 1997 and then back up again by the end of 1999 precisely at the same time as the super El Nino back then. It seemed to have happened again but less in 2010.
Is it possible that that whole region of earth slowly heaved upwards, (~12″!), including the ocean floor,(magma “tide” but much slower maybe from changes in gravity from relative planetary alignments? Jupiter? ~11 years?), creating a strong deep current that is somehow related to the ENSO?

Cook can’t seem to make up his mind on Tuvalu sea level. There’s what you would expect like this: http://www.skepticalscience.com/pics/5_TuvaluSLR-tidegauges.gif (claiming a FIVE mm/yr rate!) But then, oddly, he has this: http://www.skepticalscience.com/pics/TuvaluSLR-SLRvsstericENSO.gif ????

When science research of any kind is done to prove a certain viewpoint it isn’t science at all, it’s opinion. Climate research both proving and disproving human influenced climate change is full of data manipulation and outright lies. When consensus is the basis for scientific fact then those facts are guaranteed to be wrong.