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Landmark climate change case opens at the top UN court as island nations fear rising seas
Associated Press ^ | December 2, 2024 | Molly Quell

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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TOPICS: Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: climate; climatechange; climatechangehoax; conjob; eussr; fourthreich; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; guam; hankjohnson; icj; lawfare; scam; un; untiednations; vanuatu
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1 posted on 12/02/2024 11:16:41 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
These crooks aren't worried...


2 posted on 12/02/2024 11:19:12 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Olog-hai

Island nations want money from stupid idiots. Can’t blame them.


3 posted on 12/02/2024 11:20:16 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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To: Olog-hai

Adapt or drown?

Lunacy.


4 posted on 12/02/2024 11:20:39 AM PST by waterhill (I Believe! Eph. 5:11. God Bless Israel.)
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To: BenLurkin

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!!


5 posted on 12/02/2024 11:26:09 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: BenLurkin

Obozo can donate his property if any of those other islands get flooded.


6 posted on 12/02/2024 11:26:38 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: Olog-hai
recent picture of the International Court of Justice deliberating "the largest case in its history":


7 posted on 12/02/2024 11:26:58 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Olog-hai

Tho not funny as Hunter still on the naughty list, I did have to look and make sure this was not the Bee.


8 posted on 12/02/2024 11:35:38 AM PST by Free Deplorable
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To: Olog-hai

They fear rising seas as long as they can get paid.


9 posted on 12/02/2024 11:42:03 AM PST by webheart
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

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.


10 posted on 12/02/2024 11:44:09 AM PST by chopperk (airhi)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


11 posted on 12/02/2024 11:51:09 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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“...said Arnold Kiel Loughman, attorney-general of the Vanuatu archipelago nation...”

Vanuatu has an attorney general. Who knew?


12 posted on 12/02/2024 11:51:42 AM PST by bwest
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To: Olog-hai

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.


13 posted on 12/02/2024 11:51:59 AM PST by Fireone (Americans have had enough. (build the gallows))
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To: Olog-hai
Here's the every now and then reminder, just to keep up with the Warmegeddon cult's daily screeching, that the Modern Warm Period is just yet another warm period over the past few thousand years.


14 posted on 12/02/2024 11:56:58 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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The world has also warmed 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times because of the burning of fossil fuels.

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."

15 posted on 12/02/2024 12:03:12 PM PST by econjack
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To: Olog-hai

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.


16 posted on 12/02/2024 12:09:47 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


17 posted on 12/02/2024 12:10:24 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: econjack

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?


18 posted on 12/02/2024 12:12:07 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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19 posted on 12/02/2024 12:16:47 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


20 posted on 12/02/2024 12:57:59 PM PST by 56th FA Brigade
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