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The Age<\/em>\u2019s masthead: Independent. Always.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s mortifying to see Patrick Elligett slip on a banana skin and get carted off to Casualty. Metaphorically, I mean. He\u2019s been editor of The Age<\/em> since February and doing a good job, mostly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, let me declare an interest: I\u2019ve been a loyal subscriber to The Age<\/em> for a fortnight. Elligett persuaded me to pony up the $2 a week in his well-composed weekly emails about how he runs the paper. I wrote for The Age<\/em> under editors Graham Perkin, Les Carlyon and Greg Taylor in the 1970s and as long as I live I feel blessed to have been part of the Age<\/em> family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this essay isn\u2019t about my fond memories. It is about Elligett accepting Greenpeace\u2019s largesse and hospitality and subsequently publishing Greenpeace-subsidised claptrap, which is rather unfortunate for The Age<\/em>\u2019s cred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, I\u2019ll describe how the newspaper \u2014 with Sydney Morning Herald<\/em> in tow \u2014 partnered with Greenpeace in a stunt hyping the negligible rise in sea level \u2014 blamed on climate change, of course \u2014 at the little island of Kioa in Fiji\u2019s north-east group. Second, I\u2019ll suggest why, despite The Age<\/em>\u2019s reporting, indigenous Fiji women (\u2018iTaukei\u2019) rate net-zero-emissions below top priority, given the appalling violence they suffer at the hands (and feet and weapons) of their menfolk. Third, I\u2019ll document Greenpeace\u2019s hypocrisy, a mission as unsporting a pastime as shooting fish in a barrel. Throughout I\u2019ll tackle at least some of the misinformation in the Kioa feature by senior Age<\/em> writer and environment roundsperson Miki Perkins<\/a>[1]<\/a>, who needs to check more science papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greenpeace\u2019s goal is to further bleed the West\u2019s resources via the corrupt<\/a> UN\u2019s pledge at Egypt\u2019s COP27 to establish climate \u201closs and damage\u201d payments. This money \u2013 yet to materialise \u2013 will inevitably be stolen and squandered by corrupt Third World basketcases. The suggestion<\/a> is that  annual climate \u2018losses\u2019 will amount to $US565 billion by 2050, so on compo we\u2019re not talking peanuts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greenpeace is promoting the hype of the regional meeting at Kioa about un-named states (but certainly not China) being scolded by the International Court of Justice for their alleged climate misdeeds. Fiji citing \u2018justice\u2019 in any context is a bit rich given its track record of military coups, police thuggery and the arrests of nine opposition politicians<\/a> (including two ex-prime ministers) two years ago. As Greenpeace puts it<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greenpeace Australia Pacific will continue to escalate key demands within the Kioa Declaration in recognition of Australia\u2019s position as a global laggard on climate and a major contributor to the climate crisis \u2014 that means no new coal, oil and gas approvals and no more fossil fuel subsidies.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Age<\/em>\u2019s junket involved Greenpeace and Perkins jointly scrabbling for \u201chuman interest\u201d testimonies to illustrate the islanders purported climate woes. Perkins quotes Greenpeace lawyer Katrina Bullock at Kioa:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We feel that it\u2019s important to take human rights stories from the Pacific to the court and remind the court why it matters. One of the things I\u2019ve learnt as a lawyer is that facts and figures are important, but what moves hearts and minds is stories.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perkins\u2019 Age<\/em> piece appeared on August 14, with ripper pics by Age<\/em> photographer Eddie Jim. In coy terms, Perkins\u2019 piece acknowledged that<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Age <\/em>and The Sydney Morning Herald travelled to Kioa with assistance from Greenpeace<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and also<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greenpeace facilitated travel to Kioa for this masthead.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greenpeace has deep pockets for  subsidising sympathetic sorts to its photo ops and gabfests. A snapshot of Greenpeace Australia<\/a> includes $26.6 million from donations and bequests in 2022, of which 34 per cent<\/a> ($8.9m) was consumed by fund-raisers clipping the ticket and other costs (see note 3). Half the revenue is from cashed-up foundations and big-lick bequests (p6). The four top Greenpeace execs share unequally $1.1m<\/a> for their pay packets. They run 80 full- and part-time staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was about to email Ms Perkins about Greenpeace\u2019s vague \u201cassistance\u201d and \u201cfacilitation\u201d when she popped up with another Greenpeace-friendly piece<\/a> on August 20 headed, \u201cEver wondered what it\u2019s like to sail on Greenpeace\u2019s iconic Rainbow Warrior?\u201d. A few paras down, she writes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This masthead <\/em>[Age and Sydney Morning Herald] was invited aboard the Rainbow Warrior for two nights, travelling 145 nautical miles from Suva, Fiji, to one of the country\u2019s remote islands, Kioa \u2013 where a significant climate meeting is being held. (Greenpeace funded our travel to join the ship).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the back of an envelope, I guessed $1000 a night for Perkins and Age<\/em> snapper Eddie Jim for two nights, equals $4000. Plus, say, $1500 for two return flights. That could be five grand deducted from the  The Age<\/em>\u2019s \u201cIndependent. Always.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trip to Kioa wasn\u2019t just a Phuket-style junket, with the lucky journo returning the favour of free travel by praising some or other resort\u2019s daiquiris and fluffy towels. This Fiji exercise was the Rainbow Warrior political crew doing their fatwa against fossil fuel-dependent Australia\u2019s prosperity. Next thing, might The Age<\/em> send reporters on trips subsidised by Extinction Rebellion (I assume Editor Elligett would draw the line at ISIS  subsidies)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/em>Esther Tulupe\u2019s story is likely to be one of those presented to the UN,\u201d writes Perkins.  As for Kioa\u2019s alleged loss and damage from alleged rising seas,  Perkins was able to cite the risk to Mrs Tulupe\u2019s semi-derelict beach shack, along with 100 coconut palms and \u201c75 square metres of coastline\u201d since the 1990s. What? Seventy-five square metres is not even a quarter of a basketball court (420sm). Perkins writes regardless,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tulupe\u2019s fears are shared by people across the Pacific region. They are on the frontlines of the stark, heartbreaking reality of the climate crisis, from Fiji to Kiribati, and Tuvalu to Samoa<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor Elligett\u2019s August 18 newsletter praised Eddie Jim\u2019s \u201cawesome\u201d photography, saying it <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

helped bring to life a beautiful piece of writing<\/strong> by our environment reporter Miki Perkins on the urgent and existential fight against climate change<\/strong> being faced by our Pacific neighbours. It is an important piece of public interest journalism<\/strong> that should not be ignored by Australians. <\/em>[OK I won\u2019t]. With photography and writing like that<\/strong>, and the kind of thorough original reporting<\/strong> you will only find at The Age<\/strong>, I don\u2019t think it will be\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once I send these words to our newsletter editor Jane Hutchinson, I turn my mind to checking the final edits of our most important pieces of public interest journalism. This is, in fact, the highlight of my week\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 And what a privilege it is to scrutinise the work of the country\u2019s best journalists<\/strong>. It is this time of the week I feel most grateful for their work and most proud of their contribution to our state and our country<\/strong>. I have overused the term \u201cmasters of their craft\u201d<\/strong> already in this note, but can you blame me? I\u2019m surrounded by them<\/strong>\u2026\u201d <\/em>(my emphases).[3]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve never before critiqued the output of a press photographer but here it\u2019s unavoidable. Eddie Jim\u2019s role was to handsomely and memorably decorate Miki\u2019s prose \u2013 like a Dublin monk illuminating the Book of Kells. In this quest I think Eddie went overboard \u2013 literally. Check his snap of Kioa grandpa Lotomau Fiafia doing a wading-out photo op.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did Rainbow Warrior dry-clean Eddie\u2019s safari suit? I\u2019d agree with Elligett that Eddie\u2019s symbolism, composition, colour and glow-lighting are genius-level. The BBC used to do knee-high photos, but neck-high takes it to a new level. The Age<\/em> caption:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lotomau was born on the island in 1952 and has seen erosion of the shoreline in the past decades. He stands in the water roughly where the shoreline used to be when he was young<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sea laps Lotomau\u2019s leaf-fronded neck as he holds up his grandson\u2019s head. They both look pained and indignant. Eddie (or an Age<\/em> sub-editor) explains that some 60 years earlier grandpa would have been on terra firma, but climate-fuelled sea rise has created this deplorable wetness. So Kioa ostensibly suffers sea rise \u2013 along with the broader Pacific \u2014 at the rate of some 2.2 metres per century.[4]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actually, there\u2019s been no<\/em> detected sea rise around Fiji \u2014 as distinct from beach erosion. For Tuvalu sea rise, enjoy these BoM graphs.<\/a> And seas globally since 1923 have risen by about the length of your hand.  Your beach house, and likely that of Mrs Tulupe, will linger a while yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A distinguished oceanographer, the late Nils-Axel Moerner, six years ago studied Fiji sea levels for the UN\u2019s COP23 in Bonn. Fiji\u2019s two tide gauges, on Viti Levu<\/a>, are so badly sited as to be useless<\/a>. Moerner instead used beach geology to estimate sea level change at the adjacent Yasawa Islands. His findings: no current sea rise<\/a>, and sea level actually 75cm lower<\/em> than 500 years ago \u201cas evidenced by shore morphology, dead corals up to 15 cm above LTL [low tide level], and dead notches.\u201d[5]<\/a>[6]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiple studies by Professor Paul Kench\u2019s team at Auckland University have documented the Pacific island increases in surface area, one study concluding<\/a>, \u201cThere is no evidence of large-scale reduction in island area despite the upward trend in sea level.\u201d (p12). And from a 2018 Kench study<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Results highlight a net increase in land area in Tuvalu of 73.5 ha (2.9%), despite sea-level rise, and land area increase in eight of nine atolls \u2026 Results challenge perceptions of island loss, showing islands are dynamic features that will persist as sites for habitation over the next century.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Virginie Duvat of University of la Rochelle, France, studied 30 Indo-Pacific atolls with 709 islands and found no atoll shrank and 89 per cent of the islands were stable or growing<\/a>: \u201cOver the past decades to century, atoll islands exhibited no widespread sign of physical destabilization by sea-level rise.\u201d When the ABC\u2019s Fran Kelly interviewed Anote Tong, an ex-president (2003-16) of Kiribati, Fran expected alarmism but instead got this<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 I\u2019ve always been very frank and honest to say I don\u2019t see the sea level rising, It may not be the rise in sea level that would be the most immediate problem. I think the change in the weather pattern is more likely to be the more immediate and it has already happened\u2026 I\u2019ve always been coming from the science. We\u2019re talking in terms of what the science is saying.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sea rise for 13 island states can be seen here, on page 28<\/a>, courtesy the BoM.[7]<\/a> The sea rise at Vanuatu, sponsor of the UN loss-and-damages hullaballoo<\/a>, has been sweet damn-all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much for Eddie\u2019s water-staged drama of Grandpa Lotomau.  Perkins\u2019 also inserted a drive-by reference to worsening of Kioa\u2019s \u201cintense storms\u201d \u2013 I assume she means cyclones. When I did my day trip into Vanuatu off a cruise boat pre-COVID, we were shown a big hollow tree where islanders for centuries had survived cyclones. The impact of cyclones might now appear<\/em> worse because of bigger populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia\u2019s Bureau of Meteorology does annual \u201coutlooks\u201d for South and Western Pacific tropical cyclones<\/a>. Over the course of the past 12 years just two years\u2019 cyclone outlooks (2022-23 and 2016) were above average, one (2015) was below average, another (2010) was mixed, and the rest were about average. The latest IPCC 6th<\/sup> report finds in regard to tropical cyclones no detected increase and no attribution<\/a> to global warming. Miki Perkins also fretted about Antarctic ice-driven sea rise but that\u2019s another furphy.[8]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news hook for The Age<\/em> feature was the setting up at Kioa of a special climate fund for Pacific islanders<\/a>, chaired by Joseph Sikulu, an executive of Pacific Climate Warriors and the Pacific director of 350.org<\/a>, a global posse of anti-emission fanatics. Sikulu\u2019s biography describes him as a Tongan queer person of colour<\/a> raised in Darug country or \u201c \u2018Western Sydney\u2019 as it is known today.\u201d [9]<\/a> Who\u2019s to fund this fund? You and me, obviously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AS MENTIONED<\/strong> earlier, my guess is that Fijian women are more concerned about being bashed than 1degC of warming in the past century \u2013 to a supposed average temperature of around 14degC<\/a>. The domestic violence has attracted international condemnation, as have Fiji\u2019s regular miliary coups.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2013 the Fijian Women\u2019s Crisis Centre published results of its violence survey of 3035 women aged 18-65<\/a>. The study related to 189,000 relevant women. It was funded by Australian Government aid agencies and assisted by the Fiji Statistics Bureau, used WHO methodology. This report said it significantly under<\/strong>-estimates the violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Every day in Fiji, 43 women are injured by their spouse or partner \u2013 but only a half a dozen disclose to medicos the true cause (p10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 On average, assaulted women suffer three types of attack \u2013 68% punched, 44% kicked, 20% hit or threatened with a weapon, and 10% deliberately choked or burnt \u2013 half of those suffering two to five chokings or burnings in a year (P2) A third of the women victims were assaulted two to five times in a year. (p3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Almost every day, a woman is attacked so badly she is disabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Every day, partners knock ten women unconscious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Every day, partners break bones of five women  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Every day, five women suffer internal injuries<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Every day, a partner inflicts burns on a woman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Every day, three men break their partners\u2019 teeth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Every day, blows cause 29 women to get their eardrums broken or eyes harmed (all these from p10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 One in seven women has been beaten during a pregnancy. One in three of those women were punched or kicked in the stomach, causing elevated rates of miscarriage. These figures are among the worst rates recorded worldwide (p3, p9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 About a third of women who were assaulted said the assault was followed by rape, forced sex or degrading or humiliating sex acts. Nearly half of those were raped 2-5 times in that year, and half were raped more often. (p3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Each day, 16 women require external health aid for their injuries, but few of them get it (p10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Of women suffering the violence, one in three has contemplated suicide and one in 11 has attempt suicide (p9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Nearly one in three women report concurrently suffering four or more types of coercive spouse practices (e.g. against talking to friends) and more than one in four say their savings and income are snatched and mis-spent (p2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Fiji has the fourth-highest rates of domestic violence over a woman\u2019s lifetime (physical and\/or sexual, and emotional), compared with 20 other countries that used the same survey method. (p6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These violence figures are averaged across Fiji. In the eastern zone they are considered among the world\u2019s worst. Results in the northern division, which includes Kioa, are worse than overall (p5-6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Age<\/em> decorated Perkins\u2019 feature with a candid tagline Environmental Activism.<\/em> When you click, you get another Age<\/em>-published story (August 4) about Greenpeace. This time its lovable protestors were invading the manor house<\/a> of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in North Yorkshire. Sunak had just announced Britain\u2019s major retreat from its \u201cNet Zero\u201d trajectory, approving hundreds of new North Sea oil licences \u201cwhile the world is burning\u201d, as Greenpeace histrionically put it. The protestors scaled Sunak\u2019s roof and squatted for five hours, unfurling \u201cNo New Oil\u201d and draping walls in funereal fabric. Sunak and his wife, Akshata, and their daughters, Anoushka and Krishna, were not in. England\u2019s constabulary stood around, although the stunt might equally have involved bomb-carrying terrorists. Plod did manage to book five perpetrators. One backbencher complained,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 MPs and their families have enough to worry about with their security without extremist groups and their spoilt activists pulling stunts like this at their homes to promote their unrealistic, extravagant demands and student union-level politics.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the same day that editor Elligett published this Greenpeace home-invasion story, his newspaper was bedding down with Greenpeace locally to bolster, in a subsidised way, the lobbyists\u2019 Kioa stunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in The Age<\/em>\u2019s daisy-chain of anti-emissions coverage, its UK story was accompanied by an opinion piece from a contributor, the WA Today<\/em> journo\/sub-editor Mark Naglazas<\/a>: \u201cChange of climate: Will today\u2019s activist villains be tomorrow\u2019s heroes?\u201d Naglazas defended the 6.45am stunt by four Disrupt Burrup Hub activists at the City Beach home of Woodside CEO Meg O\u2019Neill. This protest, as the ABC finally admitted, was accompanied by an ABCTV team. Naglazas opined in a glorious non-sequitur:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just this week, UN boss Antonio Guterres declared the \u2018the era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling<\/strong> has arrived\u2019. Surely a group that has shown no taste for violence<\/strong> staging a stunt outside the home<\/strong> of the boss of a major fossil fuel company is small potatoes<\/strong>? (My emphases).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know about the Burrup Hub protesters and violence (they are now the subject of restraining orders), but Greenpeace has never shrunk from law-breaking. In 2011 , for example, four Greenpeace miscreants broke into a CSIRO genetically-modified wheat trial in Ginninderra, Canberra, and destroyed a half-hectare crop with their weed-trimmers.<\/a> The trial was wheat for better nutrition and bowel health. Condoning the break-in, Shane Rattenbury, a Canberra Greens MLA (and formerly with Greenpeace) \u2014 admitted Greenpeace had a track record of breaking the law. Cosmos<\/em> journalist Wilson da Silva, unimpressed, said Greenpeace had \u201clost its way\u201d<\/a>, degenerating into a \u201csad, dogmatic, reactionary phalanx of anti-science zealots who care not for evidence, but for publicity\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greenpeace also campaigns against anti-rickets \u201cGolden Rice\u201d<\/a> , which offsets the Vitamin A deficiencies<\/a> harming 190 million Third World children under the age of five. Half a million go blind annually. More than 150 Nobel laureates have asked Greenpeace to drop its anti-GM misinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apologies for this digression, or was it a digression? Now back to The Age<\/em>\u2019s Kioa piece, headed \u201cFighting, not sinking: The Pacific plea for Australian climate action<\/a>.\u201d In another of Eddie\u2019s nice pics, their Rainbow Warrior taxi is haloed by the rising (or setting) sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perkins didn\u2019t mention that when the wind dropped the 840-tonne tall ship switched to its 1900HP horsepower Caterpillar C3512 diesel-electric powerplant<\/a>, fed by a 110,000 litre tank of diesel.[10]<\/a> [11]<\/a> It manoeuvres via a 150HP diesel-powered bow thruster. The ship (below in Suva Harbour<\/strong><\/em>) also sports a helicopter pad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talking of diesel, in 2017 Greenpeace activists seized a car-carrier ship at Sheerness Port, Kent, to stop thousands of \u201ctoxic\u201d Volkswagen diesel car<\/a>s entering the UK \u2013 diesel being so bad for the planet. And in 2020 Rainbow Warrior 3 blocked  tanker traffic<\/a> at the Preem oil refinery at Brofjorden. I assume the Warrior first topped up its own 110,000 litre tank. (I like this old pic<\/a> of an BP roadtanker backing up to refuel Greenpeace\u2019s predecessor Rainbow Warrior 2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among that Warrior 2\u2019s campaigns was protesting Bangladesh shipbreakers cutting up old ships literally on the beach, with half-starved labourers sending oil, sludge, asbestos and plastics seawards. \u201cThe shoreline is one long trash heap,\u201d as one visitor noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But guess where Rainbow Warrior II got scrapped? On a Bangladeshi beach<\/a>, chopped up by the same scrawny laborers. Here\u2019s how: Greenpeace in 2011 passed the clapped-out ship to the Bangladeshi charity Friendship for use as a floating hospital. The Friendship documentary, A Boat for Bangladesh<\/em><\/a> , was then nominated for an Ocean Film award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018 Greenpeace approved Friendship\u2019s deal to sell the vessel to a Bangladeshi beach-scrapping yard. The delighted breaker then used the Greenpeace decision to tout its \u201cgreen\u201d and \u201cresponsible<\/a>\u201d beach business. One comment: \u201cSounds like the ship\u2019s more Green pieces than Greenpeace\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exposed by Germany\u2019s Spiegel<\/em>, Greenpeace tried to buy the ship back but recoiled at the price. Failing to suppress the scandal, especially in big-donor Germany, Greenpeace in November agreed the scrapping was<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in a way that does not live up to the standards we set ourselves<\/em><\/a> and campaigned with our allies to have adopted across the world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We should have consulted our partners \u2026 we did not. No excuse.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobody was fired at Greenpeace, itself the last to forgive corporate offences and first to demand their punishment and subsequent reparations. The Greenpeace-friendly media, including The Age<\/em>, ignored the revelations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2014 the aptly-named Pascal Husting, Greenpeace\u2019s international program director, was sprung for years of fortnightly 360km flights<\/a> between Luxembourg and Amsterdam to work. Never mind Greenpeace claims that short-hauls are \u201cten times worse than taking the train\u201d.[12]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s enough fish shot in this Age<\/em>\/Greenpeace barrel. My dilemma: renew my $2 subscription in September for Mr Elligett\u2019s sake?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tony Thomas\u2019s new book from Connor Court is <\/em><\/strong>Anthem of the Unwoke \u2013 Yep! The other lot\u2019s gone bonkers. $34.95 from Connor Court <\/em><\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

.[1]<\/a> \u201cMiki Perkins is a senior writer at The Age. She produces agenda-setting journalism<\/a> about climate change, the environment and social issues. She also writes fiction, and is working on a novel. Miki lives in Naarm\/Melbourne on Wurundjeri land<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> SMH chief climate persuader Nick O\u2019Malley also emailed me August 23 about Miki Perkins\u2019 illustrated account of the \u201cexistential\u201d and \u201cincredibly unjust\u201d climate threat to the Kioans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> Eddie makes no suggestion the land is sinking<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> Re Yasawas: \u201c There is a total absence of data supporting the notion of a present sea level rise<\/a>; on the contrary all available facts indicate present sea level stability. On the centennial timescale, there was a +70 cm high level in the 16th and 17th centuries, a -50 cm low in the 18th century and a stability (with some oscillations) in the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries. This is almost identical to the sea level change documented in the Maldives, Bangladesh and Goa (India).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> Mimura and Nunn<\/a> talk about modest Fiji sea rise of 15cm per century but they are merely extrapolating from a tide gauge at Oahu, Hawaii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> The noticeable sea rise for Samoa is actually land subsistence<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> Perkins: \u201cRapid global warming is melting vast swaths of ice at the poles.\u201d NOAA: \u201cRight now, Antarctica\u2019s contribution to sea level rise can be measured in millimeters. On the Antarctic Peninsula, where ice shelf collapses have led to measurable glacier acceleration, the effect on sea level is currently just a tenth of a millimeter\u2014about the width of a human hair<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> Sikulu \u201cis an Environmental, Cultural and Queer activist<\/a> finding his strength in the cross section of these communities from people who like him are fighting to shift the narrative the world has on Queer people of colour.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> Greenpeace fibbing as usual: \u201cThe 57.9m-long ship uses wind energy instead of fossil fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> Some technical specs for Rainbow Warrior 3 say its engine is a Volvo Penta D65A MT (1850 HP). Sorting this out is above my pay grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> Greenpeace chief scientist Dr Doug Parr agreed Husting\u2019s compulsive jet-setting was \u201ca mistake\u201d that \u201cshould never have happened\u201d.<\/a> France is now forcing former air short-haul commuters to take trains<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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