Pacific Leaders Worried About 'Climate Gravy Train' – Criticise Aussie PM Tony Abbott's Apostacy

adanac says:
June 17, 2014 at 7:12 pm
Well? Tony Abbott has been speaking with Prime Minister Harper. Seems they are birds of a feather.

The usual Canadian Pipeline protestors.
http://www.ezralevant.com/the-usual-pipeline-protest-suspects/
Bizarre indeed!
Most of the same protestors seem to turn up at all Canadian protests — regardless of cause.

John says:
June 17, 2014 at 5:17 pm
Push until Obama falls – right out of office. The Australian Prime Minister has far more common sense than Obama will ever have.
Sure, and that’s why Abbott’s popularity has plummeted to a 35% approval rating (and a 56% dissatisfaction rating) after just 9 months in office. The Labor party, which was crushed in the September elections, is already polling ahead of the Coalition by 53-47%. That has to be a record for how quickly voters have become dissatisfied with a political leader.

Climate and pipeline Protestors are sometimes a bit clueless…

For example — Line 9 — the protestors were not aware that the pipeline had been running with no significant incidents for 40 years. They thought it was a new pipeline — not that the application was for a simple reversal of direction.
Some of the political leaders have figured out that many of the protests are due to ignorance. In Canada it looks like foreign money is feeding the protestors.

Just offer massive tax credits for wind farms. The breeze ought to blow the water away from the islands.

Are any other of these numerous islands also building extra new airports like the Maldives?
Just to evacuate quickly the population from the rapid sea level rise of course…

An important study on this subject is “Sea Level Rise and the Ongoing Battle of Tarawa”
(http://sites.agu.org/sharingscience/files/2012/10/2012EO170001_rga.pdf). This article appeared in the magazine Eos.
The problems on this group of islands are attributed by the government to climate change. See appendix 1, “Issues related to climate change on South Tarawa”, in
http://www.climate.gov.ki/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/6_SOUTH-TARAWA-revised-2012.pdf!
This attribution is a dynamic information, mainly based on the future as forecasted by IPCC. “However, there is evidence that at present, climate change is not the main cause of coastal erosion, water shortages or overcrowding. Other issues, especially population growth and
the move to Western lifestyles, are having a more immediate impact. But any future plans to
tackle any of the above challenges need to provide for the growing contribution of climate
change over time. ” (p. 10)
The main reason for illness and child mortality is not climate change but overpopulation, what leads to overfishing, erosion, water pollution, ‘urban heat island’ effect (see Eos article), etc.
About the Kiribati government it says: “Many individual observations of erosion, flooding, or groundwater salinization, recorded in community consultations for internationally funded climate
change adaptation programs, are thus attributed to climate change without scientific analysis.“

WillR says:
June 17, 2014 at 9:25 pm
Climate and pipeline Protestors are sometimes a bit clueless…
For example — Line 9 — the protestors were not aware that the pipeline had been running with no significant incidents for 40 years. They thought it was a new pipeline — not that the application was for a simple reversal of direction.
I’m not sure that bragging about a 40 year old pipeline being safe is a smart move. You do know that the pipeline that ruptured in Michigan was roughly the same age. News alert – pipelines wear out as they age. You also neglected to mention that Enbridge is proposing to move heavy tar sands crude through the pipeline, which is a much harsher crude than the pipeline has carried in the past. The condensate used to dilute the tar sands crude causes pressure variations in the pipeline, far more so than has occurred with the oil it used to transport. Oh, and Enbridge refused to carry out a hydrostatic test on the pipeline. If the pipeline is so safe, why not agree to do the test?

This reaction makes perfect sense once Climate Change is rightfully seen as the more palatable excuse for the kind of global transfers enacted by the UN in 1974 under the name NIEO–New International Economic Order. I have those documents as well as reports created the next year by the Aspen Institute. Then in 1976, in conjunction with the US Bicentennial, the Club of Rome actually came to Philly to discuss the intended change in direction globally to fulfill these plans for global redistribution. Harlan Cleveland created the report for UN leaders laying out that vision. Have that too.
None of those play well as a PR pitch. So Global Warming and ozone depletion and maybe freezing all begin to be touted as necessitating the always desired redistribution. Except it gets pitched now as damages or the costs of precautionary measures instead of the outright redistribution all the 70s documents honestly reveal that it is.