Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele of Samoa lashed out at leaders of the United States, China, India and Australia for not doing their bit to prevent climate change.
Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele hits out at climate change sceptics during fiery speech
By Pacific affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic
Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele has lashed out at climate sceptics and urged Australia to make deeper cuts to carbon emissions to help save Pacific Island nations from the “disaster” of climate change.
Key points:
- Mr Sailele says “greater ambition” is needed to stop impact of climate change
- He warns geostrategic competition is creating uncertainty for small Pacific countries
- Australia, New Zealand and the US have been scrambling to reassert influence in the Pacific
Mr Sailele told the Lowy Institute in Sydney that climate change posed an “existential challenge” to low lying islands in the Pacific, and developed countries needed to reduce pollution in order to curb rising temperatures and sea levels.
“We all know the problem, we all know the solutions, and all that is left would be some political courage, some political guts, to tell people of your country there is a certainty of disaster,” Mr Sailele said.
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Prime Minister Sailele also criticised loans from China which he believes are burdening Pacific nations with unsustainable debt.
“Some might say there is a patronising nuance, believing Pacific nations did not know what they were doing, or were incapable of reaping benefits of close relationships with countries that will be in the region for some time to come.
“One has the tendency to be bemused by the fact that the reaction is an attempt to hide what we see as strategic neglect.”
Read more: same link as above
From a video of his comments;
… We all know the problems, we all know the costs, we all know the solutions, and all that is left would be some political courage, some political guts, to get out tell the people of your country do this, do this, the certainty of disaster. So when any political leader in Australia or in Samoa or in China or in the free countries that are responsible for all this disaster, China, India and also the United States, and any leader of this country who believes there is no climate change he ought be taken to a mental confinement, he is utter stupid, and I same the same thing for any leader here [Australia] who say there is no climate change …
Source (Video): http://www.abc.net.au/news/programs/the-world/2018-08-31/samoan-pm-hits-out-at-climate-change-sceptics/10185198
Tuilaepa Sailele seems one of the more competent and honest Pacific leaders, so its a shame to see him get the climate issue so wrong. Perhaps he should do some more research before demanding mental confinement for people who disagree with him.
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegao. He speaks like a fat, deluded person, who wants his money NOW.
He’s gone more than twenty minutes without fried Spam.
Hasn’t he noticed that islands such as Tuvalu have survived CAGW and Super Moons despite the past hype?
Tuvaluians aren’t treading water despite the hype.
I don’t think he’s concerned so much about more “blue” but le$$ “green”.
So why aren’t they aiming these shrill demands at those who promised them this recompense in the first place? This is like the child who didn’t get any ice cream from his mother holding her responsible after someone else told them she would give it to them.
The climate is always changing, always has, always will. There is no such thing as a stable climate. Do you deny that? if you do you are a climate change denier and you deny the climate sceptic position.
If the nation-islanders had any serious concern about being inundated you would think they might have come up with a few simple concrete (literally and figuratively) plans other than just building more airports to accommodate increased tourism. Before demanding money they ought to have a costed construction plan (other than construction of a new des-res for each lucky bureaucrat), but it usually seems to be “give us the money first and then we’ll decide how to spend it”.
That Mr Hart is precisely why the Climate deals all fail. These recipients of free dosh are required to do certain things with as part of the cash for free arrangement! Unfortunately, said recipients don’t want to spend it on things like equality of life, rights, opportunities, the education of women & girls, etc! Prime example in the UK, India is planning to put a man on the moon in the next few years, & we all know how expensive that task is, monetarily & in Human terms. So good old Tony Blair arranged for £2 Billion to be paid to India for the Woman & girls education programme, because the Indians didn’t want to “waste” the money!
tuvalu spends it on more airports.
not joking
Sounds like the guy is stressed from overwork.
He should take a walk along one of Samoa’s golden sand beaches, and see for himself just how far the sea level has risen in his lifetime.
The Alarmists have managed to scare Prime Minister Sailele to death with their CAGW lies.
He’s *really* going to be angry when he finds out CAGW was all a hoax.
Nah, they didn’t scare him. They promised him a bill of goods (free climate ca$h) that never materialized. He’s not scared, he’s angry he’s not getting the green stuff ($$$$) he was promised.
I wonder, has that fat ignorant pig ever read a book? Just wondering.
In one of the Pacific Islands, possibly Samoa or maybe Fiji, human cannibalism continued until quite recently. At a restaurant if you ordered a delicacy called “long pig”, you could taste for yourself the product of this activity.
Actually still occurring in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, but I doubt they have restaurants there.
Just barbeques
Finger sandwiches.
modern cannibals know how to keep their farming sustainable.
just take an arm here and a leg there. the amputees survive on hope.
and remain ripe for the next harvest.
QUESTION: What the hell is a “climate skeptic”?
I cannot think of a single human being in all of my life so far that has doubts that climate exists. There are NO climate skeptics.
Again, is there a secret meaning to this word that some people are trying to force onto the mass understanding of this word’s dictionary meaning?
cli·mate
[ˈklīmit]
NOUN
the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
“our cold, wet climate” ·
synonyms: weather pattern · weather conditions · weather · atmospheric conditions
a region with particular prevailing weather conditions.
“vacationing in a warm climate”
synonyms: region · area · zone · country · place · clime
A “climate skeptic”, then, would be somebody who is doubtful of prevailing weather conditions over a long period.
Shall we now discuss “solar skeptics”, “species skeptics”, or any other word of choice to which we can attach the word, “skeptic”, to mean any damn thing a group of piers might want it to mean, but it does NOT ?
Easter Bunny skeptic? 😉
Hey, now that’s a step too far! Next you’ll being saying Santa Claus doesn’t exist, or even the Tooth Fairy!!!!!
The tooth fairy definitely exists. A couple of weeks ago I gave her a dollar to put under our daughter’s pillow.
With that definition I am quite doubtful about whether ‘climate’ exists in the British isles.
All we ever get is weather. We can have warm winters and cool summers. We can have heat waves followed by frost the next day. You really can’t tell what we’re going to get next….
Donald Trump said about climate change that it’s only weather, and that’s probably the most intelligent, insightful, brillant statement on climate change by a politician.
A scientist is, by definition, a skeptic. Let’s start with that. And end with it. (Thank you Richard Feynman.)
You can threaten to fine us, send us to re-education camps, jail us, kill us, and now send us to the loony bin, but you can’t silence science. It’s been tried many times throughout history, and every time those who have tried are the eventual losers.
I guess he did not read the report that since the end of WW2 his islands have become slightly larger.
When your facts don’t fit, tout the models.
When your models don’t work, tout ‘stupidity’.
With apologies to lawyers
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/04/legal-adage/
Q: What do you call a thousand lawyers on the bottom of the ocean?
A: A good start.
Of course the climate changes. I have a doubt it is humanly possible to stop it from changing.
Never seen chemtrails this bad – 8 days straight of brown nano metal spray in SoCal. The drought is man made alright.
Never wonder why the warmists call skeptics conspiracy theorists.
Warmistas are anti Trump, think Putin changed the results of US elections, think “renewables” hurt Russia, etc.
Off-topic AND wing nut. Good job Juan.
Mencken wrote, “the progress of knowledge is less a matter of accumulating facts than a matter of destroying “facts.” … the more ignorant a man is the more he knows, positively and indignantly.
“Tuilaepa Sailele seems one of the more competent and honest Pacific leaders, so its a shame to see him get the climate issue so wrong.”
Wow. Seems he is right on track. Good for him, and the people he speaks for.
Bad for him and very bad for the people rules over. He is convinced he has no control over his life and his people are helpless, at the mercy of other countries. That’s a very poor life philosophy that always leads to failure.
We all know the solutions. We all know they will result in a lot more socialism.
Mental confinement? So he wants skeptics to suffer the same prison the believers throw themselves into?
If we put the politicians in lockdown we would all be much, much better off.
How is the growth of Coral in these Pacific Islands ?
MJE
How is the growth of coral on all of these Pacific Island. Its been working for millions of years.
NJE
Just exactly how does Samoa get their electricity?
Imported fuel.
Ah well, so much for not believing in real science. Would he care to explain what the people of about 7,000-9,000 years could have done to stop the submergence of the monolith they set south of Sicily, that is now about 130 feet below sea level?
Nobody make the Samoans borrow from China, and the rising water issue is caused by the over pumping of ground water causing the ground level to sink.
Don’t their fishermen use dynamite or somesuch to blow up the local coral to get at more fish? That also contributes to a sinking island!