Global warming creates world’s first climate change refugees
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With sea levels rising, residents of the islands which comprise the Carteret atoll off the coast of Papau New Guinea are fast becoming some of the first refugees of global warming.
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The Carteret islands consist of a base of coral that sits atop an extinct volcanic mount. In the usual geological course of events such islands eventually subside due to weathering and erosion, as well as isostatic adjustments of the sea floor. Such subsisence has been observed and noted by scientists for over 200 years. This is a natural event.
These low lying islands have also had a number of transient populations over the past 1000 years. In effect the islands have continually been economically exploited over this period. With the islands subsiding into the sea habitation by humans is no longer viable. As a result the population are being evacuated as "environmental refugees" - which has absolutely nothing to do with Global Warming.
This Independent article is a good example of "yellow journalism" (where eye-catching and mis-leading headlines that feature exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, sensationalism are generated to simply sell more newsprint).
The Independent will have to look elsewhere to find so-called victims of the Great Global Warming Hoax.
Planet Earth is continually recycling itself. "Global warming" can no more be controlled than can plate tectonics, solar activity and the myriad other happening to a dynamic planet.
When you watch your children grow you watch the carbon cycle in action. CO2 in action.
This is why I am coming around to thinking that anyone who believes that CO2 is anything but good has joined some demonic cult that hates humanity.
PS - nuclear submarines are allowed to patrol the oceans with atomic weaponry on board and operational levels of CO2 between 4,000 and 11,000 parts per million. One would hazard a guess that if it was bad for you at 10x to umpteen times the level we are "suffering" today the navies of the world would ensure greater efficiency in the scrubbers on such vessels.
We should be singing the praises of this miraculous gas, not trying to diminish it in either quantity or qualities.
From one carbon based life form to another, "Live long, and prosper". Stop worrying about a non-threat dished out by non-entities.
Transient population had nothing to do with rising sea levels. Economic exploitation has nothing to do with rising sea levels.
Rising sea levels will cause millions of people to become enironmental refugees.
This is quite appalling journalism from The Independent. I see nobody has dared put their name to this one. Pull your socks up Environmental Sub-editor. This just will not wash.
Oh yeah, WRONG.