Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Unhappy Pacific Islanders are vigorously demanding more climate action, and they want to know when the “support” will arrive.
‘We Need Support’: Pacific Islands Seek Help And Unity To Fight Climate Change
October 5, 201911:56 AM ET
ASHLEY WESTERMAN…
Pacific Island government officials in New York for the United Nations session and environmental conferences earlier this week and last week appeared more unified than at previous events in their push for greater international help, participants say.
“We need resources. We need support,” Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine told NPR’s Morning Edition. “We need everyone on board, and not everyone is on board at this point.”
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Micronesian President David W. Panuelo was upbeat, however, after the events in New York. “We felt we were heard by the global community,” he said in a phone interview.
He said he is particularly encouraged by the attention paid by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. He also pointed a resolution passed in August to enhance U.N. cooperation with a group called the Pacific Islands Forum, which aims to “build resilience to extreme weather in the region.”
“Guterres is very genuine about his concern,” Panuelo said.
He wishes the U.S., which he called his nation’s closest ally, would return to the Paris agreement, he said.
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Read more: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/05/764570478/we-need-support-pacific-islands-seek-help-and-unity-to-fight-climate-change
If you want to make Pacific Islanders smile, all the USA has to do is recommit to the Paris Agreement, agree to the dictates of the UN Secretary General, and start shovelling taxpayer’s money into the hundred billion per annum climate “support” fund.
Aren’t the building an international-class airport out there?
Same old questions.
What do they really want to do?
What real world actions will they take, and what is the expected measurable result?
What are they personally willing to sacrifice and contribute?
In the immortal words of Sam Kenison,”Send them f**kin’ luggage!”. If “sea level” is “rising” “catastrophically” then move, morons. Millions of people will happily pay large sums of money to occupy the same square meters you are fleeing. Get. The. F**k. Out.
I have a possible solution–draw up a contract that all recipients have to sign to get any money–that to get any handouts they have to agree that if sea level continues to rise without any catastrophic change for 12 or 20 years or whatever time they claim that disaster will strike, the money has to be paid back double; sell the islands if you have to to pay it. Lots of Canadians would love to have a winter homelike that, especially the children who aren’t gullible to be on climate strikes today.
There really should be some accountability for all this, something to be paid back if you cause a bunch of change and are wrong. I wonder how deep the conviction of imminent climate disaster would be found to be if being wrong cost you. A person forms his or her own opinion, if they use it to influence decisions there should be a personal accountability for that.
And yes, one could say that about my opinion too, but as a geologist having seen from the rocks how this planet changes climate I’m comfortable that I can show that these changes occur without any causal influence of CO2. There will be climate change, but it will not be because of man and will not be a crisis.
Besides–if we’re all gonna die, what do they need more money for?
I think about Pacific islands, occasionally. That’s all the support they need and deserve.
Quick shout-out to Josh – we sure are getting lots & lots of use out of that (incrementally modified) cartoon
Given these Islands are roughly the same total size as they were 50+ years (albeit some bigger, some smaller) who thinks that if some clown hadn’t banged on about climate change and these folk were just living happily on their tropical paradise type islands with their easygoing life styles, would they have even noticed any change? Charlatans, all of them.
Bh
Did anyone tell the people that live on those islands that they are actually gaining land area, not losing any?
Cargo cult phase 2
Corals are living organisms (animals; polyps) and the surface level adjusts to the sea level at any given time in a symbiotic relationship with an algae called zooxanthellae, which is a plant-like organism and makes use of the coral’s metabolic waste products for photosynthesis.
This symbiosis gives the coral reef the power to grow with the sea level.
It’s as simple as that.
Roger Surf wrote:
“New Zealand used to have a quota for Climate Refugees, I think they still have it.”
As we here are seekers of truth I will put the record straight. The statement is wrong.
One hopeful claimed refugee status based on climate change. He was rejected in the courts. We were not prepared to open that can of worms (- yet?)
End of story
M
give jacinta a bit more time..Im sure she will set a fund up
I see shes in full stupid supporting the ext reb mobs down there
According to several 2017 articles on the net, New Zealand was considering creating climate change refugee visas. One example article from everyone’s (least)favorite rag:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/31/new-zealand-considers-creating-climate-change-refugee-visas
Even WUWT reported on it back in 2017:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/01/new-zealand-to-introduce-a-climate-refugee-visa/
However I didn’t find any follow up (granted I didn’t spend very long looking) saying that they ever did create such a climate refugee visa, So will have to assume that it was just virtue-signaling talk form politicians rather than any serious effort to create such a visa.
Perhaps if such Pacific Island people stop mining Coral
as a building material, thus destroying natures breakwater,
they would have nothing to feat from the occasional
storm.
MJE VK5ELL