11/28/11, "Canada makes Kyoto climate strike," Richard Black
Mr. Black's article gives prominence to eliminationist rhetoric such as the following it selected as caption for a photo:
"South African President Jacob Zuma: Climate change is "a matter of life and death"
"Canada will not make further cuts in its greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol, and may begin formally withdrawing next month.
Though not a surprise, the news will anger poor countries that say the rich are reneging on pledges made 14 years ago when the protocol was signed.
They see the protocol as the only way to make emission cuts legally binding.
Also on the first day of the UN climate summit in South Africa, the UK was criticised over support for tar sands.
In the main conference hall, delegates heard South African President Jacob Zuma call for meaningful progress.
"For most people in the developing world and Africa, climate change
- is a matter of life and death," he said.
"In these talks, states, parties will need to look beyond their national interests to find a global solution for the common good and benefit of all humanity."...
Speaking for the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis), Barbadian delegate Selwyn Hart said his group was not prepared to contemplate delay."At the heart of any agreement should be the principle that no country is expendable," he said.
"It's morally and ethically indefensible to sign an agreement that will result in the demise of a single nation state. The consequence for some of the islands
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Hasn't Richard Black heard that island nations aren't sinking at all and what problems they have are due to nature and poor governance, not CO2? Maldives lacks fresh water naturally (see heading 'Population), not due to rising sea levels. The same is true of Tuvalu--even the AP says so:
- 10/27/11, AP story, "A natural weather pattern known as La Nina has settled over the region and deprived Tuvalu of any substantial rainfall for six months. Weather linked to La Nina also has been blamed for the higher tides....Mr. Laafai, the Tuvalu home affairs official, is candid in acknowledging that government officials were slow to react to a crisis months in the making....
- “Rain is such a random event there,” he said. “There’s no geographical feature to trap the precipitation going past.”
- Mr. Fry said the groundwater has become contaminated in part by the waste from humans and pigs living on the island, a situation that may have been exacerbated by giant holes dug in the coral during World War II to provide the fill needed to create an airstrip. High tides have also been making the water salty.
- So far, the actual rise in ocean levels has been minimal, he said."
- 10/27/11, "Tuvalu’s fresh water crisis deepens," AP, Nick
Maldives has long used its natural coral as a construction material, such habitats therefore never having been suitable for large populations. Maldives is NATURALLY the lowest sea level nation on the planet--having nothing to do with CO2 or warming.
6/3/10: "New Zealand research shows Pacific Islands not shrinking," from New Zealand television. From journal, Global and Planetary Change: "It has been thought that as the sea level goes up, islands will sit there and drown," Prof Kench told the New Scientist. "But they won't. ""...
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A movie about the Maldives president and his globetrotting mission with the help of others to get the US middle class to transfer what little it has left to him.
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11/26/11, "What's there to discuss about flogging? There is nothing to debate about in a matter clearly stated in the religion of Islam. No one can argue with God," he (Maldives Minister Naseem) said."...(Maldives speaks of "shaming" money out of the US at the Durban 'climate' conference. What would they know about shame?).
Above, Maldives protest UN Human Rights Commissioner suggesting they should not flog women, 11/25/11, Haveeru
Above Maldives protest UN Human Rights Commissioner Pillay suggesting they should not flog women, one sign says, "Flog Pillay", 11/25/11, Haveeru
11/25/11, "Maldivians protest against UN rights chief's comments on flogging," Haveeru
"Protestors gathered outside the United Nations Building here in Male today, condemning UN human rights chief's comments against flogging and the constitutional provision that requires every Maldivian to be a Muslim.
The protestors who carried signboards with angry slogans first surrounded the UN Building on Buruzu Magu today afternoon and called authorities to arrest Navi Pillay who concluded her four-day visit to the island nation yesterday.
Protestors broke up for Sunset Prayer but again gathered at the Tsunami Monument area in the evening, demanding an apology from the UN and parliamentarians for Pillay's comments."...
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11/26/11, "Maldives won't allow debates on anti-Islamic issues: Foreign Minister," Haveeru News Service, Ahmed Hamdhoon
"The government will not allow debates to be held in the Maldives on issues that are against the fundamentals of Islam, Foreign Minister Ahmed Naseem said today.
The minister's comments come two days after the UN human rights chief called for a public debate in the Maldives on the practice of flogging women found guilty of extra-marital sex.
Minister Naseem told Haveeru that the government would not open a basic Islamic principle such as flogging for public debate in the Maldives despite requests to do so.
"What's there to discuss about flogging? There is nothing to debate about in a matter clearly stated in the religion of Islam.
- No one can argue with God," he said.
"Our foreign ministry will not allow that to happen."
"Maldives is a 100 percent Muslim country."...
Meanwhile, the UN human rights chief's comments sparked protests in capital Male with some
- calling for her arrest."...
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The US taxpayer should not be forced to give money it doesn't have to savages who flog women. We've already given the Maldives millions of US tax dollars via the Obama stimulus:
8/22/11,"Stimulus helped equip climate research facilities--in Maldives, India, and Australia," CNS News, Penny Starr
"The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced last week that it has used $60 million of the $1.2 billion given to the agency in economic stimulus funds for purchasing “advanced-technology research instruments”
- to study climate change.
Some of this equipment was deployed at facilities in the Maldives, India, and Australia."...
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Bangkok Climate Change Talks, 2009, angry signs and people whose finite time and energy were stolen from them for a fraud, CO2 endangerment. A waste of a generation thanks in part to the propaganda arm, the BBC. 'Climate,' the greatest financial fraud in the history of mankind. ed.
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