The good news for the Charity War on Want, which has made this ludicrous claim, is that Scotland has committed to pay £2 million as compensation for its historic carbon emissions to poor countries around the world. As soon as it can scrounge the money off England under the Barnet formula, the cheque is on its way. The bad news is that the other £999.998 billion that War on Want reckons the UK owes is not on its way as we are already almost bankrupt. Mind you the useless Tories egged on by the BBC and others are still thinking about it.
Forget the fact that Britain is broke the facts just do not back this nonsense up. Both our drip of a Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and – predictably – the fake news Queens at BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour cited recent Pakistani flooding as an example of the climate change we evil Britishers were responsible for because of the carbon we belched out 100 years before the global warming scam got started. But as I demonstrated HERE – there is no causal link and there are many other non-global warming reasons why just under two thousand Pakistanis out of 320 million drowned this year. Don’t facts matter any more?
Earlier, the BBC’s flagship Today programme had discussed the issue with global warming cultist and someone who disagreed with him. Only kidding. The BBC sees this as settled science so there was no sceptic asked for a counter view. Instead a tedious man banged on about how island communities are being flooded out and having to move AS I SPEAK. I shouted at the interviewer to ask him to name the communities but this idea went unchallenged and the man ranted on saying how much we British owed and how we had to act NOW. Just hand over the money NOW.
The island communities that were meant to disappear first according to the cultists were the lowest lying in the world, the Maldives. That seems logical and so since 1988 the drowning of the Maldives within 12 years has been wheeled out on a regular basis. The Guardian featured a picture of a chubby PM and his ministers holding a cabinet meeting in he sea in 2009 to warn what life would be like in a decade. I listed all the dire warnings and pointed out that the sea level has not risen by a jot since 1988 and the Maldives population has actually grown HERE.
So maybe a grifter from the Maldives might be open to a bit of ridicule so instead we had a hustler demanding cash from the wicked Britishers on behalf of the Cook Islands. These charming Islands are volcanic creations near Australia and New Zealand. So, like all volcanic islands as tectonic plates move, new islands are created but the ones furthest from the volcanic zone will not be increased in size by eruptions but instead may suffer minor erosion from the sea.
And that might explain why the older Cook islands have been shown to be suffering from sea rises of…..4 millimetres a year from when measurement started in 1993. The sea level may well have been rising before that, nobody knows but the cultists say that everything started in 1993 and that – without producing any evidence for this the sea level rise will in the future rise more dramatically. You might think that 4 millimetres a year would make 39 centimetres by 2090. Oh no. It’s another global warming hockey stick, you see, so the rise will be 58 centimetres by 2090. We shall see. As the islands are slap bang in the middle of the cyclone zone – something that was around even before global warming – there may be other factors at play.
75% of Cook islanders live on Rarotonga which is towered over by a 658 metre high extinct volcano. Most of the rest of the island is hilly and forested. There is a very narrow coastal strip then a 1.5 metre lagoon along much of the coast. The idea that a 39 centimetre or even a 58 centimetre rise in water levels will drown this island out in another 68 years time is for the fairies and certainly does not justify we evil Britishers bankrupting ourselves by sending tens of billions of pounds to some hustler from the South Pacific who runs a nation of 18,000 souls. By the way some Cook Islanders have left in recent years but not because of global warming but because they are attracted to the bright lights of New Zealand or Australia.
The Cook Island hustler should have been given short shrift but he too went unchallenged, And so it goes on. Grant Shapps came on and said all things were being considered. He did not have the backbone to say that this is all tosh. Instead he and Rishi boasted of how – as they consider tax rises all round in bankrupt Blighty – the UK will hand out an extra £1.5 billion to add to an existing £10.4 billion being spent on projects around the world fighting the effects of climate change or global warming as it used to be known.
If, as a hilarious joke from a God laughing at men thinking they can change the sun’s temperature by having 57 different colour codes wheelie bins organised by the local council, we suffer a cold British winter, consider that £11.4 billion, consider your fuel bills, consider the Green levies the silly Tories have stiffed us with as they ensured we did not exploit our coal and gas reserves. Think about it all and ask why Sunak and others cannot just point out that there is no factual basis for climate reparation claims and tell the BBC, the doom Goblin Greta Thunberg, the NGOs and island based hustlers to stick the idea where the sun don’t shine which, this winter, will almost certainly be an energy deprived Britain.