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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Maldives Environment Minister Thoriq Ibrahim has warned that unless the Maldives gets its climate cash before 2020, the 1.5C global warming limit will be breached.
We need bold action before 2020 to hold global warming below 1.5C
Published on 26/04/2018, 9:00am
If rich countries fail to live up to their promises over the next two years, they condemn small islands to catastrophic warming impacts, says Maldives minister
By Thoriq Ibrahim
A recent report found that unless bold climate action is taken in the next couple of years – before 2020 – it may become impossible to hold global warming below 1.5C.
This could prove catastrophic for small island developing states like mine that have already witnessed severe climate change impacts at just the 1C of warming the world has already experienced, including the devastating hurricane season that struck the Caribbean last year.
Next week international climate change negotiators will gather in Bonn, Germany for the first in-person meeting of the “Talanoa Dialogue”, the new UN process designed to track international efforts to implement the Paris Agreement.
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Since the beginning of the UN climate change negotiations and through the Paris Agreement, it has always been understood that developed countries would take the lead in transitioning to low-carbon energy sources because they are responsible for the vast majority of historic emissions.
Time and again they also agreed to provide financial support for developing countries to build their own renewable energy systems.
It has also long been recognised, and is explicitly laid out in the Paris Agreement, that pre-2020 action lays the foundation for a global transition to sustainable energy and, importantly, builds trust among all parties that we will all live up to our commitments in the future.
But many developed countries’ pre-2020 obligations remain unmet and now some seem eager to forego early action altogether.
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Read more: http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/04/26/paris-agreement-starts-2020-will-late/
This call for climate cash echoes a similar demand from African nations a few weeks ago.
I’m not sure how the Maldives reconciles their climate concerns with all their fly-in tourism and their aggressive airport and resort building programmes, but no doubt some of that climate cash will help with the reconciliation if it ever arrives.
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If you ever want to see your climate again. Leave $1.5 billion in unmarked $20 bills in a dumpster located at …..
Lol
+1
… located at 20,000 leagues under the sea
…could be their money was misdelivered to Iran…..
Exactly what everyone is thinking…
One graphic says it all: Who actually paid in to the Paris Green Climate fund?
NASA Data Proves Trump Right to Exit Paris Climate Accord
https://www.prisonplanet.com/nasa-data-proves-trump-right-to-exit-paris-climate-accord.html
Can we get another flag, with bozo on it, with “$4.5M (pledge)” as the caption
Great graphic. Except you need another flag box. One for Bloosiberg and his $0.0044 Billion payment into the Paris scam fest.
And tell Maldives to skip whining about it. They can apply direct to Bfoolberg and his $billions deep checking account.
They didn’t get the memo, the tooth fairy stopped visiting Muslims!
Mel Brooks understood the approach the Maldives are now using….
https://youtu.be/YGVY-HO7w9s
One of the best scenes in one of the best movies ever.
Can you imagine them making it now?
Only if Stormzy and Jayzee were in the cast as they seem to be immune from criticism when they use the ‘n’ word.
Mel Brooks has already said they couldn’t, now. It’s still the funniest movie ever made. Gawd, I miss Cleavon Little.
This is my feelings regarding Maldive snowflakes:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uai7M4RpoLU
Absolutely one of the funniest movies ever made, right up there with “What’s Up Doc?” which introduced us to the comedic talents of Madeline Kahn. Yes, Eunice. Oh, the youngsters these days have no idea what they missed. Fortunately we have DVDs.
Reminded me of my favorite Detroit LIon — Alex Karras.
‘mongo only a pawn.’
‘mongo like beans.’ source of GHG?
Candygram for Maldives…
“Gibe moni plos”
What this is reminiscent of is the old line that climate change cash is taxes going from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
Nowhere near strong enough. Should be:
I’ve often wondered how stealing money from poor people in a “rich” country and depositing it into the Swiss bank accounts of the tyrants, despots, and warlords ruling third world countries will somehow “save the planet”.
Simple. When the planet starts cooling (which it may be), they will say “See! We saved you. All those reparations were worth it”.
sounds like one of those laws of thermodynamics about heat flow and entropy.
or the other one about s**t flowing downhill and money flowing the other way
The article says:
“As important as it is to measure global progress toward cutting greenhouse gas emissions, it must be recognised that the national contributions under the Paris Agreement don’t legally commence until 2020.”
Thought I read a few times that the Paris scheme was just voluntary?
Maybe you just can’t volunteer until 2020. Volunteers for the Maldives should start swimming over to them so they will arrive in time to save the planet.
Maldives Government: Where’s Our Climate Cash?
Go and get it from Obama and the Democrats.
Twas Obama that Promised it, not the (Of the People) US Federal Government
Tis Obama that owes it, not the American People
“If you like your climate cash, you can keep your climate cash.”–Barack I-am-not-a-Muslim Obama
Maldives Government: Where’s Our Climate Cash?
In my pocket.
Molon Labe, Baby.
Don’t remember where, but: “Judge: $300 fine. Defendant: Hell, Judge, I got that right here in my pocket. Judge: Reach into your other pocket and give me 30 days.”
It was a work of fiction.
Obama – or Solyndra. That’s where it went.
Ask Bloomberg for it.
Perhaps the USA should assist the Maldives with Carbon Neutral “Renewable” energy sources and any proven ocean intrusion problems.
But instead of sending CA$H, we should send American Workers paid by American Companies to install American Made Solar Panels and Wind Turbines, and American engineered Sea Walls constructed from American manufactured Concrete and Steel rather than just sending Klimate KA$H
Why spend a dime on them? If they think they have a problem they may solve it. However, it certainly isn’t a problem of our making. Let some other fools crowd fund their boondoggles.
Exactly.
That’s called tied aid. There’s always the worry that if you give a big pile of cash, the local politicians and bureaucrats will take it all before it can get to the people who need it. example
The thing is, that is exactly what the Chinese are doing in many areas. Of course, the money for the construction given by China is a loan. The rulers of the countries get to pocket millions, the people are made to think there is progress but, in the end, the Chinese expect to be paid. They have leverage to make the country turn over its resources to China and can force them to do whatever it wants them to do politically.
As the song says,
“I owe my soul to the company store.”
They could ask Bloomberg, Soros, and Steyer.
Yes, “The Three Caballeros”.
Michael B. says he is writing a check for $4,500,000. When and to whom, I have no idea.
To Maldives Environment Minister Thoriq Ibrahim, maybe.
For why that amount, I’ll guess his tax accountant supplied the number.
The Maldives should get their money the old fashioned way. They should earn it!
Provide real goods and services that people want and will pay real money for.
J Mac
+ 1000 In spades
[This could prove catastrophic for small island developing states like mine ]Too funny! I think he means to say OVER developed.
Wow talk about construction run amok. Gonzo that picture reminds me of the planet Terminus in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation books. Now that’s taking me back a few years. 🙂
I think you mean Trantor. Terminus was actually pretty agrarian.
You are correct. It has been a while since I read those novels.
. The stake marking the founding of “Terminus” was driven into the ground in 1837.
Oh, that was the unofficial name of Atlanta, GA.
And yes, the Foundation Series does date you (us!).
I bet if you showed this image to 100 greenies, none would guess it was the main island of the Maldives. Try Googling Maldives images – you have to scroll thru a pile of images of idyllic undeveloped islets and coral cays (with just a palm tree and a couple of deck chairs) before you get shown this picture. Obviously not what the Maldives government wants us to see.
Nice island you have there. Be a shame if it capsized.
Certainly not a place to go if your intention is to escape city life and enjoy island life
Ref. From Wackapedia:
“…Since there is no surrounding countryside, all infrastructure has to be located in the city itself. Water is provided from desalinated ground water; the water works pumps brackish water from 50–60 m (160–200 ft) deep wells in the city and desalinates that using reverse osmosis.[17] Electric power is generated in the city using diesel generators.[18] Sewage is pumped unprocessed into the sea.[17] Solid waste is transported to nearby islands, where it is used to fill in lagoons. The airport was built in this way, and currently the Thilafushi lagoon is being filled in.[19][20]…”
Where in the heck would you put any windmills or solar panels ? Offshore? And then we get into the difficulties of THAT, which would require MORE money to really implement.
Then they’d just have to ~beg~ demand more.
Wow. What happens to their sewage and trash?
Eric,
Surely you have heard of the Great Garbage Patch in the Pacific! /sarc
Greenies don’t poop.
They want the money to fly to the next UN meeting to ask for more.
Excellent question!
And where does their fresh water come from?
Probably hauled off by barges and dumped somewhere beyond the view of the tourists.
It doesnt look like they are in need of money.
The meme is they are poor islanders threatened by sea level rise. Don’t let the rubes see that picture!
Why don’t America and OZ help them out by sending a shipment of coal .
Sinking? It must be the weight of the concrete.
BINGO!
Sum-bitch! One good tsunami from a geological fracture will wipe out the whole thing!
Looks like a place the very well to do go and play.
I love it, but wouldn’t want to be around in a healthy cyclone.
How do we know when “developing” countries finish developing and become developed? I haven’t heard of any country that isn’t doing any developing whatsoever, certainly not the more advanced Western ones, so I’m pretty sure all countries are “developing”.
Hope they have flood insurance.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just throw cash at the hurricanes?
And far more effective.
perhaps the “official” response to the Maldives should be to officially cancel all “fossil fuel” powered transport to and from there along with an embargo on all fossil fuel products of any sort. Just to show the worlds support of their belief in catastrophic man made climate change!
Cheer!
Joe
Good point Joe. And do you suppose any of the cars, buses, boats, aircraft, building materials, etc. in the photos above were manufactured there? Of course not, the Maldives manufacture nothing. All that stuff was manufactured elsewhere, using cheap fossil fuels. If the Maldivians want their claims to Climate Victimhood to hold any credibility, they need to stop using all of that stuff immediately.
Paper 5: Status of Coral Mining in the Maldives: Impacts and Management Options – By Abdulla Naseer, Marine Research Section, Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture Malé, Republic of Maldives
1. INTRODUCTION
Coral rock is the main aggregate for most construction purposes in Maldives. In 1986 the demand for coral aggregate for the construction industry in Malé Atoll, the industrial center of the country, was estimated at 0.5 million cubic feet/year. Although no recent estimates have been made, it is thought that demand is probably at its limit now and according to predictions, the current methods of mining would exhaust the coral buildings in N. Malé Atoll within a maximum of 30 years if coral mining is not controlled.
6. CONCLUSIONS
Coral reefs are economically important to Maldives in terms of revenue and ecosystem services, particularly as a buffer to shorelines from wave action and other oceanic processes.
Luckily for the Maldives a ban was put on the use of Coral in the early 1990s but in the meantime it did not stop the Maldives blame the damage to the shorelines etc on climate change.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5623e/x5623e0o.htm
I guess they are really afraid they might tip over without money. 😉
I want to see a plan of what they intend to do if they get the money they are demanding. My guess is that the high officials, if indeed they have bought into the idiocy, are planning new homes in some terribly racist nation like the USA.
beachfront homes no doubt.
The 2020 deadline is really about getting the cash before that because once 2020 comes and goes without any “climate tragedy” they will not be able to continue with the charade.
According to these clowns our entire gulf coast, California, Miami, New York, the entire eastern seaboard, etc
…..is going under
Our “climate tragedy” trumps theirs a mega ton more……who’s going to pony up and bail us out?
+1
Where should your tax money go? Rich islanders or poor Miami Cubans.
Then it’ll be a 2035 “climate tragedy” or possibly 2050- after all, these tragedies happen at nice, convenient time intervals..
But IPCC AR5 had to arbitrarily reduce 2035 model-estimated temperatures because they were not getting the “projected” 0.2C/decade temperature increases.
So, tell me: Why should we fundamentally alter our society, economy and energy systems based on IPCC climate models?
It is my understanding that the perception of government corruption in this republic is quite high, which begs the question, “Even if the required money were forthcoming, how could we be confident that the money would go to where it was supposed to go?”
Giving money to highly corrupt nations for good causes just seems ill conceived, … to put it nicely.
…I’m all for letting them go under
Paris agreement in a nutshell is a financial burden for the common people of Developed Countries to pay the Elites of Developing Countries !
Nothing to do with Climate Change.
Fraud
Perhaps such leaders should outline EXACTLY what they plan to do with that money. If there is no “shovel-ready” project, why do they need the money now?
Dear Mr. Thoriq Ibrahim
I understand that you want climate blackmail money, or else.
I received an e-mail from a Princess SGT Bitta Odesky this morning saying that she has $7+ millions she needs to store some place.
I’m fresh out of cash, but I’ll forward your blackmail request to her. You and she can work it out together.
ROFL 🙂
Whatinthehell is this Minister or that tourist atoll offering in return for the ransom $$$$
Do they have to give some of the money back if an asteroid hits/volcano explodes and the temperature plummets?
Gums ponders….
You go, Sara! 😀
These leaders should be demanding that China and India freeze their production of CO2 at current levels, if they are worried about CAGW. That’s the Elephant in the Room.
Fund further oil and gas exploration, that’s what they’ll do with some of the cash. Preliminary work has already been done.
Don’t they realize they are doomed anyway. Patches of land like theirs come and go in the blink of a geological eye. Get money, build lifeboats!
Sorry, the US is fresh out of climate cash. Will you take quatloos instead?
Never heard of Maldives – checked up up on them and they claim to be 100% Muslim.
Recent internal strife – sounds like a corrupt govt.
From Wiki:
Islam is the official religion of the Maldives and open practice of any other religion is forbidden and liable to prosecution.
Article 2 of the revised constitution says that the republic “is based on the principles of Islam”; Article 9 says that “a non-Muslim may not become a citizen”; Article 10 says that “no law contrary to any principle of Islam can be applied”.
So the question: Is the president, contrary to the constitution, practicing the religion of CAGW?; or is he utilizing the loopholes allowed in Islamic religion to con and rip-off non-muslims?
An airport built at sea level? So, no attempt to mitigate potential circumstances into the year 2300? Yea…na, I’ll keep my money in my back pocket thanks very much.