Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Australia and New Zealand and the Pacific Island Nations have just tried to bully the USA on climate policy by signing the Boe Declaration, a joint declaration of the 49th Pacific Islands Forum which names climate change as the single greatest threat to the region, and specifically demands that the USA rejoin the Paris Agreement.
Australia joins Pacific to declare climate ‘single greatest’ security threat
Published on 05/09/2018, 2:45pm
Region of island states calls for the Paris Agreement to be upheld, with Australia joining despite recent political turmoil over climate policy
Australia joined other Pacific island governments in a joint statement on Wednesday that named climate change as the major security issue facing the region.
At a meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum on Nauru on Wednesday, leaders signed the Boe Declaration, which recognised climate change as “the single greatest threat to the livelihoods security and wellbeing of peoples of the Pacific”.
The declaration also committed signatories to follow through on the promises made in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.
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From the communique supplied by Climate Change News;
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Climate Change and Disaster Resilience
15. Recognising that climate change presents the single greatest threat to the livelihood, security and wellbeing of Pacific people, Leaders reaffirmed the importance of immediate urgent action to combat climate change and committed to sustained, high level representation and collaboration in the lead up to, and at, 24th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change Convention (COP 24) – to ensure effective progress on Pacific priorities with regards to the Paris Agreement, particularly the development of the Rule Book and Guidelines for implementing the Paris Agreement, building on the Talanoa Dialogue.
16. Leaders acknowledged the leadership of Fiji’s COP 23 presidency and called on the CROP Plus group to provide strong, coordinated support and assistance to members delegations in the UNFCCC negotiations.
17. Leaders called on countries, particularly large emitters, to fully implement their Nationally Determined Contribution mitigation targets, including through the development and transfer of renewable energy, in line with committed timeframes. Leaders of Forum Island Countries called on the United States to return to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
18. Leaders urged the expeditious progress of the work of the taskforce for the Pacific Islands Climate Change Insurance Facility.
19. Leaders requested the United Nations Secretary General to appoint a Special Adviser on climate change and security. Furthermore, Leaders called on the United Nations Security Council to appoint a special rapporteur to produce a regular review of global, regional and national security threats caused by climate change.
20. Leaders reaffirmed their commitment to the Framework for the Resilient Development of the Pacific recognising the value and importance of a multi-sectoral approach to addressing climate change and its impacts. Leaders acknowledged the establishment of a regional risk governance arrangement through the Pacific Resilience Partnership and the Pacific Resilience Partnership Taskforce.
21. Leaders endorsed the development of the concept of the Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF) and directed the Secretariat to progress the development of the PRF.
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Read more: 49th Pacific Islands Forum Boe Declaration (unofficial release)
In my opinion putting a signature to this declaration makes a mockery of claims the new Australian government is climate skeptic.
The USA has been incredibly generous over the years with everyone who signed that declaration, but forum attendees see an opportunity to extract more cash from US taxpayers and are going for it.
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Regarding the signing by Australia of the Pacific conference despite the domestic rejection of climate change, how much of that is the usual virtue signilling, and how much is to try a to counter Chinas influence in the Pacific.
But in the end the Pacifics very small nations just want money, and they don’t really care where it comes from.
MJE
In the end as is
The meatheads fail to notice that the Paris agreement is sliding away into irrelevance, and America has reduced their CO2 emission without being a party to it.
Obama (on his way out the door) shipped the Paris dudes (whoever they are) $1B ($1,000,000,000) – have they already spent/stolen all of it?
No word yet if the payment was made in pallets of cash flown in in the middle of the night.
Hey, knock it off will you! Don’t you realise just how expensive these Climate Jamborees….errr I mean Conferences are??? All those fine wines, champagnes, & finest foods don’t pay for themselves you know! Sarc!
The agreement has been irrelevant for years , even the once pinup country Germany is not going to make it’s targets. The irony is the US and the those countries deemed exempt as 3rd world nations are the only ones making target except a few tiny EU countries. China which is currently list as maybe meeting targets is also likely not meeting target because of data doctoring and so it could actually be worse.
Who did their ancestors extort from when sea levels were higher a majority of the time from 8,000 years to 1,000 years ago? Willis Eschenbach and others have plainly and clearly described cool atoll dynamics and how they maintain themselves in rising seas. Photographic analyses have found that about 75% of coral atolls examined grew or maintained their size as sea level rose the past fifty years. an NOAA study of 199 of the most stable and long-life tide gauges found sea level rise averaging four inches per century. I would ask, “Have they no shame?” but that’s a foolish question to ask of seekers of others’ money. They consider themselves fools if the don’t have their hands out.
Our newly appointed Foreign Affairs Idiot, sorry Minister signed this on behalf of Australia. That guarantees that we will have the socialist government that’s been threatened. Well done indeed.
Pacific Island Nations want to achieve the Kiribati model, where government spending is now….wait for it…. 164% of GDP…. Huh?:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/529113/ratio-of-government-expenditure-to-gross-domestic-product-gdp-in-kiribati/
This insane level of government spending was made possible by Kiribati’s effective propaganda campaign asserting Global Warming/Sea Level Rise will cause all their islands to be submerged by 2100, which led to $100’s of millions of extorted “charity” being sent from the US, UN, Australia, New Zealand, the EU, and other Asian countries…. (Kiribati’ population is around 100,000).
Not a bad gig if you can pull it off….
They’re trying to bully Australia, too. Gimme money or we’ll get it from China seems to be the message.
Good, go get it from China.
Sorry.
Sea surface temperature in the area of Norman hurricane activity is high.
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floaters/16E/flash-vis-long.html
I remember the BBC ‘s Shukman doing a piece on Trump’s withdrawal from Paris which was remarkable for its many- layered lies.
China is increasing it’s influence in the Pacific Islands, Australia’s contribution may have more to do with countering that, than “Climate Change”. Politics is a complicated business.
“In my opinion putting a signature to this declaration makes a mockery of claims the new Australian government is climate skeptic.”
— Scientifically, they are skeptics. Financially, they are advocates.
It was never about the temperatures. It was only ever about the wealth transfers. If life on earth hangs in the balance, sending money to people who will spend it on air conditioning isn’t going to help. Sure, we may feel sorry for them as they struggle to adjust to the 0.1 degrees per decade, but if things really are as dire as what the alarmists claim, we can’t afford to do anything that makes things worth. Sure, it may be unjust but does life on earth hang in the balance or doesn’t it? If it turns out they get swallowed up by the sea, Germany will take them in.
Fantastic, we now have a list of Countries that the US should stop supplying all aid money too. Reason: We don’t give money to extortionists.
These guys are all behind the times.
We in the US no longer contribute to the Global Warming Climate Change Fund because we solved the “problem”!
It’s over, finished, the “Trump Effect” and now we will all look toward reversal of the coming glaciation.
If climate change is the region’s biggest threat, just invite the Chinese, Russian, or some other foreign countries army into your country and let them take over. They can then protect you from the evil boogieman of climate change.
I think before any of them are allowed to spout they should take Geology 101 AND sit an exam to see if they understand what atolls and guyots are and also what happens when some of them livie at active plate boundaries! Religeon with money as it’s goal!
Preach it, Brother! You have the gift of foresight…?
http://www.earthquakenewstoday.com/2018/09/06/major-earthquake-7-8-mag-strikes-near-suva-in-fiji/
Recognising that climate change presents the single greatest threat to the livelihood, security and wellbeing of Pacific people …
Why not just write it like this:
Recognizing that death by natural causes presents the single greatest threat to life, we hereby declare this as ample cause to bully the United States into giving us money, because this is as good an excuse as any to redistribute the wealth of your rich-ass country.
LET THEM POUND SAND!
If they want more money they should get a metal detector and go to the beach.
Oh so that’s why China armed its new, man-made island to the teeth. I guess that also explains Russia seizing Crimea from Ukraine…as a defensive measure against climate change. It might also explain depopulating Venezuela…as a precautionary measure against climate change. That would also explain Assad gassing his own people to save them.
Go to India and China with tin cup in hand. See what they say
It appears to me that profound ignorance of a rare terminal variety is the greatest threat that is in the immediate future for human kind. I have always believed that ignorance is curable but there is a variety of ignorance where the victims know things that just aren’t true that is a special apparently incurable variety of ignorance. It may be that not all Democrats are afflicted but it does appear that an inordinate percentage of Democrats are carriers of the disease.
The US shouldn’t give them anything because if fighting climate change is so urgent, the rest of the countries that signed the Paris deal should be willing to make up the shortfall with additional donations of their own. No doubt doubt their citizens wouldn’t mind the least if their carbon taxes added an extra 25% to their fuel bills.
Whoo Boy! That’s gonna leave a mark!!!
President Baron Waqa of Nauru, the tiny island state hosting the 49th Pacific Islands Forum, refused to allow Chinese representative Du Qiwen deliver a speech on global warming. The underlying reason may be Nauru’s alliance with Taiwan, which China has been bullying them to drop. That and the natural reefs that China destroyed to make artificial military base islands throughout the South Asian Sea.
‘Nauru – with it’s eyes wide open!’ MNGA! Make Nauru Great Again!
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/09/06/tiny-island-nation-nauru-blocks-china-speech-at-forum-refuses-to-stamp-chinese-passports/
“turmoil over climate policy”
By Helga Timaroczky
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Timuros ky –
Is this a descendant of
https://www.google.at/search?q=tamerlan&oq=tMerlan&aqs=chrome.
Kind of funny – in view of this statement from the Australian Resources Minister: “Paris climate deal doesn’t stop us building new coal plants, Canavan says”!
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/07/paris-climate-deal-doesnt-stop-us-building-new-coal-plants-canavan-says
Save the taxpayers a bunch. Cut off all contributions to these buggers. Er…beggars.