Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Kiribati man Ioane Teitiota, who attempted to claim climate refugee status when he overstayed his work visa, has finally left New Zealand.
Accord to 3News;
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The 39-year-old was deported on Wednesday after associate Immigration Minister Craig Foss refused to intervene in his long-running case.
His wife Angua Erika and their three New Zealand-born children will follow next week.
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Mr Teitiota stayed in New Zealand after his three-year work visa expired in 2010, but failed in his court battle to be granted refugee status.
He argued for years that his family’s health would be at risk if they return to Kiribati, which is endangered by rising sea levels and water supplies contaminated by salt and sewage.
Prime Minister John Key has said he does not consider Mr Teitiota a climate change refugee but an overstayer.
This story might be over, for now at least, but given the millions of people currently flooding into places like Europe and the southern USA, its probably only a matter of time, until someone else with a dubious claim to refugee status gives the “climate refugee” gambit another try.
I have already noticed several people* in the news, trying to link the refugees in Europe to climate refugees, along the lines of, “you think this is bad, but it will be much worse when the climate refugees start”.
*e.g. Emma Thompson and Paddy Ashdown.
Tut, tut Eric and QV.
First it says:
“How Climate Change is Behind the Surge of Migrants to Europe”
Then, in the article:
“Intractable wars, terror and poverty in the Middle East and beyond will continue to drive the surge. One additional factor, say scientists, is likely to make it even worse: climate change.”
So is it “behind the surge”, or “likely to make it worse”?
There was a chap on BBC news today (Leonard Doyle of the International Organisation for Migration), who said “most of these people are desperate people fleeing hardship, fleeing poverty, fleeing climate change effect on their land and their crops, and most of all fleeing violence”. It’s amazing that he put violence last in the list, while offering no evidence for “climate change” as a cause.
It seems like his organisation has already decided that “climate change” is causing migration even though what they are really talking about is bad weather.
http://unitedkingdom.iom.int/iom-global-initiatives
Unfortunately when I clicked on the link to find out more about the “Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Evidence for Policy project ” it produced a 404 error.
As long as these people are allowed to make such unsubstantiated claims without challenge, eventually it will become accepted as fact.
We will only begin to be in trouble the moment that one of these HOO-HAWS is successful in suing for Climate Refugee Status
Europe is already taking in thousands of climate refugees according to head of EU.
https://euobserver.com/environment/130183
Yes, they are fleeing the rapidly changing climate in the middle east, which has changed from raining dihydrogen monoxide to Trinitrotoluene
Perhaps they mean the political, economic or religious climate.
The problem with these fools is this: ask 100 refugees why they are fleeing and hardly any will say due to hot weather or drought. It’s called barrel bombs, no jobs, poorly paid jobs, civil war, bullets, beheadings, suicide bombers, insecurity et. al.
There ya go! And I thought there were already 50 million climate refugees in 2010. Perhaps they are like Kevin Trenberth’s heat — hiding 😉
The New Zealand deportee was aiming to be the seeking to be the world’s first climate change refugee. Climate change can cause refugees. This is obvious, but his aim is false.
CLIMATE CHANGE REFUGEES BEFORE 1975
CLIMATE CHANGE REFUGEES AFTER 1975
Well Jimbo It’s only fun to report if it’s the first evah. or largest evah, or furthest evah! Silly reporters
Yea, they are hiding in the Mediterranean Sea. 🙁 Sadly, many of them died in the process. Should Ms Merkel say something like “you are not welcome”, I great deal of lives would have been saved. If there were an appropriate Green Card system for EU, there were no market for smugglers who take thousands of euros and your life for entrance.
Of course he wasn’t a climate refugee : coral islands are the safest places to live when sea levels rise as they rise along with the sea (as Darwin figured out). However, it may be that it isn’t a bright idea to build modern cities there – pouring tons of concrete and asphalt on top of living corals; not to mention pumping out too much fresh water from the scarce supply under the islands, thus drawing in salt water. It may well eventually prove an unfortunate place to settle (thus forcing people to move) – but not because of climate change.
Not a climate change refugee then. A climate chicane refugee perhaps? The big question now is whether the UN can hide the chicanery 50 million times.
Sea level has been rising for thousands of years. Here is the other side of this story of degradation and filth. But first this.
Now onto the dirty little secrets they don’t want you to know about. No wonder he left Kiribati!
Oh those corals are dead for good already. The living coral lives in well-lit sea. It grows a lot.
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The coral sand is not going to end as long as the coral grows. And while coral may bleach, it appears to be something which is not a permanent state of affairs. However, king tides at typhoon time are not funny on a coral island.
(BTW, I recently learned what is ‘Yule tide’ – Swedish ‘jultid’)
OOPS, well perhaps they don’t build airports out in the salty ocean – but cities and airports inland will surely be covered with sands as the cyclones arrive. As you say, it is not really an ideal place to settle. So perhaps we are obliged to help the islanders at least not to increase their numbers.
Love the Freudian slip in the caption, Anthony – “National flat of Kiribati….”. Those sea level rises even inundate the unconsciousness…
OOps, fixed 🙂
If the sea keeps rising, you wont be able to see the sun on the flag, only the bird.
Wait a minute! CAGW could happened somewhere else but not in europe? Well that makes sense, sectarian fighting had nothing to do with it. I wish there was another country I could go to, but this is the best there is and it’s going in the wrong direction. If there were such a place I wonder if I could be a climate change refugee? … I know it’ll be worse than we thought once the evil co2 starts heating up in earnest. Im just thinking like a true believer. I can just see all the French and Germans packing up to leave for Syria. Or Siberia.. where it will be a very nice . It could happen.. or it will happen according to the IPCC..
A cooling period is rather more likely historically and another Little Ice Age event would make North Africa look rather attractive. I wonder how the Algerians would feel about 20 million Frenchmen settling there.
Good point Keith. There have been several pieces recently on “Watts up with that?” Whose authors postulate a period of Global cooling in the near future. We could all be heading in the other direction inside fifty years or so!
Every winter millions upon millions of Europeans head south as climate refugees. 🙂 For some odd reason many head off to Kiribati! Unprecedented according to the chart below.
There is more to this chap than just being a “climate refugee”. Good riddance I say.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/-a-dark-underbelly-sex-allegations-made-against-kiribati-climate-change-refugee-q12092
Stamper [NZ]
When winter hits in the EU, I suspect there will be a lot of refugees going the other direction. !!
Darn true. Every year millions of Europeans literally find their refuge at southern countries for a week or two. Now that I think of it, I’ve spent personally a week or two every year somewhere south. Often this has happened during the hottest summer, since even the hottest summer is not hot enough here.
I’m a part-time climate refugee!
So, tourist numbers up in Kiribati. Now what about other countries in that area of the Pacific.
Can I conclude that sea level rise causes an increase in visitor numbers?
Come to America and they will host a major banquet for him at the WH for the triple play of climate change victim, refugee, and minority. Or just assemble a homemade clock in a briefcase.
Or buy one from Radio Shack and make it look like you assembled it.
Details, details. The WH has no room for details.
I wonder if I could qualify as a climate consensus refugee?
The Kiribati government holds the unique world record for spending 100% of the country’s GDP; how proud they must be…
The Kiribati government hacks pull this off from UN largess and subsidies from Australia and New Zealand taxpayers.
It doesn’t surprise me at all that Kiribati is trying to extort more money through the CAGW scam.
Reference: (includes Kiribati)
South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring Project
Monthly Sea Level and Meteorological Statistics
http://www.bom.gov.au/oceanography/projects/spslcmp/data/monthly.shtml
I did an OLS on Kiribati mean data in Excel, (what a pain, why no csv format BOM?) That came out to 4.1 mm/year but a lot of that is from a severe dip in 1998.
The consolation prize is to go after climate change mitigation wealth redistribution funding to build a beach resort complex. Or does that only go to Muslim state applicants in the Indian Ocean?
In the late 1940s, a British Government survey concluded that Kiribati (then known as the Gilbert islands) could not sustain a population of more than about 25,000. This is mainly because of the availability of fresh water. Kiribati’s population now exceeds 100,000. A couple of weeks without rain (the only source of fresh water) and they start sucking up the ocean. To their credit, the Kiribati Government acknowledge this, and are trying to buy land overseas to resettle some of their excess population. imho every so-called climate refugee is an excess population refugee.
Andrew, you have a point! That salty water they complain about is due to over-extraction from wells and pumps of the freshwater.
So, we have people damaging their island through sand mining, gravel extraction, over-extraction of water and blame climate change. The same can be said for many of the other atolls.
This would-be Climate Refugee is nothing more than an overstayer desperate for grounds to remain in NZ. He has a violent and aggressive history with former co-workers in NZ, who were all pleased to see him depart from their workplace forever. His cause has been promoted by a particularly silly Socialist politician who has a track record of making false claims about a range of issues, and aided by gullible Greens.
Has this guy tried asking Obama for asylum in Alaska?
…or even Cook County Il.
Relocate in Detroit? It is cold there plus lots of empty spaces to colonize.
You all just quote from others whom write about atoll but not actual see or experinse what had happen during high tide and cyclone in the atoll island… well water were fill with salt/sea water…
We are proud to be IKiribati and only one person tries his luck for his family… what happen with that… he ask/ requesting but not like Palangi whom came to the NZ or Aussie and take over by force and discriminating people that already been there for ages… chao