The BBC Sydney correspondent Nick Bryant – a chap who clearly just adores OZ PM Kevin Rudd’s climate lunacy – reports here on the news that islands like Tuvalu are not, after all, in any danger of being flooded by global warming; in fact, according to the latest research, the reverse is true, the islands are actually growing. But this doesn’t deter our Nick from pursuing his alarmist agenda:
But although these islands might not be submerged under the waves in the short-term, it does not mean they will be inhabitable in the long-term, and the scientists believe further rises in sea levels pose a significant danger to the livelihoods of people living in Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia.
Never let the facts get in the way is clearly his motto. He also quotes the locals as saying that despite the facts, they still are going to drown (and, by the way, they need milllions of pounds of aid from the west).
This die-hard approach is hardly surprising, really. The BBC has been at the forefront of reporting that half the world (and Tuvalu in particular) is going to drown for at least a decade; the intro to this piece from David Shukman (in 2008) is typical:
The fragile strips of green that make up the small islands of Tuvalu are incredibly beautiful but also incredibly vulnerable.The group of nine tiny islands in the South Pacific only just break the surface of the ocean – but for how much longer?
How long will it be before eco-activists such as Bryant and Shukman acknowledge that whenever claims about climate change are subjected to scientific analysis, they disintegrate? Don’t hold your breath.
We see it all the time nowadays, a complete unwillingness to face reality when that reality conflicts with a set belief system and/or narrative.
Evidence denied and reality ignored, it doesnt matter to those who have vested interests in lying and those who are simply unable to change their prejudice.
OK despite years of hysterical unfounded scare stories about the dire danger of the Maldives sinking fast, we heard all about it in the IPCC 4 report and the Copenhagen climate summit the facts and reality dont match with the scare mongering.
Yet still those who pimped the lies still cling to them like a drowning man clings to wreckage, the islands are not sinking BUT they might in the future and the precuationary principle demands action NOW just in case.
The earth is cooling, the ice caps are normal,snow cover is increasing, ice cap mass is higher now than for years and yet the BBC still tries to hide the reality from us even when admitting the truth they twist and squirm to help their narrative.
Still if you had your pension funds invested heavily in the AGW scam you would try and pimp it regardless.
The only thing that is worse than we thought is the BBC standards of honesty and integrity.
ISLANDS RISE UP FROM SEA. GLOBAL WARMING BLAMED!
“How long will it be before eco-activists such as Bryant and Shukman acknowledge that whenever claims about climate change are subjected scientific analysis they disintegrate?”
We all know that the BBc don’t do science
I bet Nick Bryant doesn’t even know what Boyles Law is never mind Newtons Laws of Thermodynamics.
“Before becoming a journalist, I spent seven self-indulgent years as a student, starting off as a failed architect at Cambridge and ending up with a rather unhealthy fascination with US politics at Oxford.
Afterwards, I turned my overlong doctoral thesis into an even longer book, The Bystander: John F. Kennedy and the Struggle for Black Equality.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/nickbryant/about.html
Architecture too difficult for him so do something easy !
PS Has anyone noticed how the chattering classes are actually proud to be ignorant of science ?
One exception is Melvyn Bragg who takes a serious interest, but I can’t think of many others.
I am fortunate enough to visit the Happy Isles of Oceania every other year, free stopovers en route to New Zealand. The last 2 times I have visited the various small Yasawa islands and also Taveuni of Fiji (5 years apart for each) and the amazing atoll of Aitutaki in the Cook Islands (6 years apart) no-one but no-one among the natives (who all live at the seashore) have said anything about global warming or the Pacific rising to destroy their natural paradise.. They depend on the seas for a living, they realise they are exposed to hurricanes and sometimes get tsunami warnings, but I have never heard a single word about AGW.
Likewise no sign of panic in Tahiti and Moorea or on Easter Island.
There are certain “states” that are trying to milk “climate change” panics – Tuvualu and the Maldives in particular – and recently Nepal. All just on big con, steered/stirred by NGOs, with the begging bowl out.
(try the Yasawa island-hopping video on this clip :
http://www.awesomefiji.com/
and here is the amazing Aitutaki atoll, around a 15 km lagoon just 6 ft deep:
plus remote and awesome Rapa Nui – Easter Island, David Attenborough describing the holy village atop a cliff on a volcano rim
and some Cook Island dancing to finish: