Just imagine if the judge turns around and slaps NIWA. We'll be a step closer to proving climate change is a hoax perpetuated by scientists.
While a court ruling would hurt numerous scientific careers, spare a thought for the people of Tuvalu. Without the right ruling from the judge their entire nation's likely to disappear!
If the judge abolishes climate change, we'll all be able to breathe easier. And boy, will we celebrate! I've already got the car tyres stacked up in the back yard ready to ignite. I reckon they'll burn real well if we throw a few
I don't get it. Are you for or against climate change?
ReplyDeleteHow could anyone be for climate change?
DeleteI think Leighton might be?
DeleteIt'll nicely get rid of that heatwave that's beating the snot out of the US at the moment as well. I imagine the Americans will be so grateful they'll let us dictate the terms of the TPP.
ReplyDeleteYou may be right about scientists getting embarassed but don't use Tuvalu as a poster boy for sea level rising. All the data (not models) show no significant change. The islanders have trashed their island with pollution but they aren't getting flooded out.
ReplyDeleteAll coral islands are slowly sinking seamounts that the coaral starts as a fringe reef and turns into an atoll as the plate moves across the Pacific. Darwin picked that near 200 years ago. The land has to be built up with bits of reef blown ashore.The coral can grow 10-30mm a year so there is always potential material there. However, if you kill the parrot fish and build permanent structures, then erosion and eventually inundation occurs. Even the fresh water is a lens that floats on the seawater.
Parrot fish are to blame? Who knew they harboured such ill will?
ReplyDeleteWell I just hope the parrot fish are also joint defendants in the case against those NIWA necromancers.
ReplyDelete@ Chris M: "You may be right about scientists getting embarassed but don't use Tuvalu as a poster boy for sea level rising. All the data (not models) show no significant change."
ReplyDeleteExcept, of course, for the data that shows that on "the Funafuti Island (Tuvalu) ... the “total” rate of [sea water] rise is found to be about 3 times larger than the global mean sea level rise over 1950–2009."
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818111001445
But I suppose it still could be true that those stupid Islanders and their lack of care for the Parrot Fish could have done this to themselves ... .
Presumably the solution is for the people of Tuvalu to cull their own population (old people first? Or the sick?), and go back to a subsistence lifestyle that doesn't involve fish. Problem solved!
ReplyDeleteWe could always trade scientific articles:
ReplyDeletehttp://staff.acecrc.org.au/~johunter/tuvalu.pdf
but it is one island. Why is global sea level rising in just one place when Argo doesn't show ocean warming?
How much is the crustal plate deformation and movement causing the island to drop? This is what Darwin showed and everyone disregards it. At Taupo it is going down about 20mm per year but being so far above sea level it doesn't show. All it does is lower the head for Mighty River power dams.
As you seem so facetious about parrot fish
http://www.reefresilience.org/Toolkit_Coral/C3a1_Herbivory.html
it confirms you are too much of a Teeshirt slogan thinker to bother with.