Posted on 11/18/2016 6:30:47 PM PST by Ennis85
The next head of the UN global climate talks has appealed for the US to "save" Pacific islands from the impacts of global warming. Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said that the islands needed the US now as much as they did during World War Two. He was speaking as global climate talks in Marrakech came to an end. Mr Bainimarama said that climate change was not a hoax, as US President-elect Donald Trump has claimed. Mr Trump has promised to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement and scrap all payments for UN global warming projects. But as he accepted the role of president of the Conference of the Parties for the year ahead, the Fijian leader took the opportunity to call on to the next US president to step away from his scepticism. "I again appeal to the President-elect of the US Donald Trump to show leadership on this issue by abandoning his position that man-made climate change is a hoax," said Mr Bainimarama. "On the contrary, the global scientific consensus is that it is very real and we must act more decisively to avoid catastrophe."
He also made a direct call to the American people to come to their aid in the face of rising seas, driven by global warming. "We in the Pacific, in common with the whole world, look to America for the leadership and engagement and assistance on climate change just as we looked to America in the dark days of World War Two. "I say to the American people, you came to save us then, and it is time for you to help save us now." After two weeks of talks here in Marrakech, participants arrived at a consensus on the next steps forward for the landmark climate treaty.
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Could we please get back to the real world and real problems now?
“He also made a direct call to the American people to come to their aid in the face of rising seas,”
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Ok, being a nice guy I’ll come to his aid. Do I hold his head underwater or just put my foot on his face before air bubbles?
bLAH,bLAH, bLAH!!!
Climate change is not a hoax. The idea that it is a problem that needs a cure is a hoax. The idea that governments need total control of the economy and that everyone should buy carbon credits as a cost of being granted the right to breathe, that is a hoax and a shake-down.
Bubbles would ne good. Would feed the Co2 levels the plants crave.
Def: please dont stop American taxpayer dollars from coming in
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This is nothing than a Third World financial grab disguised as caring about the environment.
Climate change can only be addressed by man at the margins anyway.
What’s the hurry?
No smoking hot spot David Evans - THE AUSTRALIAN July 18, 20081. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.
Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.
If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.
Fiji is an absolutely beautiful country, and I would dearly love to visit again.
However, it has real environmental problems. The British logged it heavily over a century ago and did not replant the trees they cut. As a result, large areas of Fiji that were once forested are now grasslands. Feral pigs also run over the island, causing great damage to crops.
Money being wasted frivolously in trying to halt “global warming” or (suicidally) decreasing atmospheric CO2 would be better spent reforesting Fiji and culling the pigs, IMHO. And the money spent on real environmental problems wouldn’t be wasted, because real problems are fixable. They don’t become money sinks.
Well said.
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