Posted on 12/02/2024 11:16:41 AM PST by Olog-hai
The top United Nations court took up the largest case in its history on Monday, hearing the plight of several small island nations helpless in combating the devastating impact of climate change that they feel endangers their very survival. They demand that major polluting nations be held to account.
After years of lobbying by island nations who fear they could simply disappear under rising sea waters, the U.N. General Assembly asked the International Court of Justice last year for an opinion on “the obligations of States in respect of climate change.”
“The stakes could not be higher. The survival of my people and so many others is on the line,” said Arnold Kiel Loughman, attorney-general of the Vanuatu archipelago nation. …
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Island nations want money from stupid idiots. Can’t blame them.
Adapt or drown?
Lunacy.
Zuckerburg, Obama’s, Pelosi’s, ALL the Hollywood elites right on the ocean in Malibu, Bezos, NONE worried about rising seas, YET the brain dead climate cultists don’t EVER watch what they do, they ONLY watch what they say!! It is just so hard for me to believe that there are this many STUPID people among us, not one ounce of common sense!!
Obozo can donate his property if any of those other islands get flooded.
Tho not funny as Hunter still on the naughty list, I did have to look and make sure this was not the Bee.
They fear rising seas as long as they can get paid.
Seems this may be a bunch of dem griffters wanting to line their pockets more now that they had easy opportunities with Kam’s campaign fund.
I saw a movie THAT MAN IN RIO(1964 which has a great shot of the beaches. I just brought up the web cams. Other than the tides, no change. That is sixty years ago. No change.
“...said Arnold Kiel Loughman, attorney-general of the Vanuatu archipelago nation...”
Vanuatu has an attorney general. Who knew?
Show me irrefutable proof that activity by any humans is causing the sea to rise, and we’ll talk about it.
There is none, because it doesn’t.
The entire Climate Conspiracy is a money grabbing scam.
I hereby tell the UN to shove it where the sun don’t shine.
Most history books set the Industrial Revolution starting in 1740. So the last 50 years have increased temperatures by 1.3°/284yrs * 50yrs = .22. So, the last 5 decades has seen temperatures go up by less than a quarter of a degree. Aren't these the same islands that Al Gore said would be under water by 2013? Or perhaps these people follow the same logic used by Rep Hank Johnson who said: "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize."
Just for the record, as there may be people here unaware, the islands they are talking about, not Vanuatu with its volcanic peak, obviously, but the coral atolls, are growing in size not shrinking or sinking beneath the waves. This
“disappearing islands from sea level rise” has been one of the most easily debunked and ridiculed of the many crackpot claims made by the climastrologists.
The Maldives were supposed to be under water by 2013 if I remember the prediction correctly. The West Side highway in NYC was supposed be submerged by 2015.
One Tsunami or rogue wave could decimate those islands....get off the island. Move to Everest...oh...marine fossils found in the higher rocks of Everest? How about living in a blimp?
Any legitimate court would throw out this nonsense. No standing to sue until one has suffered harmful effects. One cannot sue for something that MIGHT happen sometime in the future.
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