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Jane McAdam - senior lecturer and director of international law at the University of New South Wales, director of the Climate Changes ‘Refugees’ and International Law Project, associate rapporteur of the Convention Refugee Status and Subsidiary Protection Working Party for the International Association of Refugee Law Judges, member of the Executive Committee of the International Law Association (Australian Branch), author of Complementary Protection in International Refugee Law (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007), former general editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal and a former member of the editorial board of the Sydney Law Review – is also a climate clown:
On Christmas Eve last year, the first inhabited island disappeared underwater as a result of global warming. The residents of Lohachara island in the Bay of Bengal had already fled to a nearby island …
Wrong. The Independent reported on Christmas Eve that global warming had claimed Lohachara (in a piece apparently removed from the paper’s archives), but omitted any actual submersion date. That’s because the island went under some 20 years ago, for reasons apparently not related to warming.
The Independent’s environment editor Geoffrey Lean - for he is the source of this myth - will be proud that his work lives on. Why, Mr Lean is a regular Jacques Cousteau:
After a speech to UCLA students, a young reporter by the name of Dana Rohrabacher, who happened to be a scuba diver, asked Cousteau if he wasn’t being too pessimistic about the difficulty of obtaining fish, clams, oysters, and lobsters from the oceans in the future. Cousteau came up to his face and said, “Did you not hear me? Within 10 years the oceans will be black goo, totally dead, destroyed. The oceans will be lifeless.”
A few years later the young reporter, by that time Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), reflected on the ocean’s clear water and abundant wildlife in a speech before the U.S. House of Representatives:
“Why did Cousteau feel he had to lie to such a degree? Was it that he did not know that he was lying, that he did not know that the oceans were not going to be black goo within 10 years or even 20 years? No, Jacques Cousteau was part of a movement that feels they have a right to lie and they have a right to frighten people, because they have a higher calling; their higher calling is to save the environment.”
(Via Andrew Bolt, who wonders if the ABC – which broadcast McAdam’s claim – will run a retraction.)
After 10 years in the family plot, I guess M. Cousteau is black goo by now.
BTW staight out of Wiki…....... ” 1930: He entered French Navy as the head of the underwater research group. Later working his way up the rankings as he became more famous, and more useful to the french navy.(sic).” Pretty good effort,considering he was 20 in 1930
What else can I say, given the marine nationale’s stellar record of martial accomplishment in WWII
Jane McAdam - entitled pontificator extraordinaire
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 09 18 at 04:22 AM • permalinkWith all those committees, project groups and working parties, when does she have time to do any work?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 09 18 at 05:31 AM • permalinkIf she was really concerned about “climate change refugees”, she’d stop attending all these conferences. After all, she believes in AGW, right. And I assume she’s flying between Prague, Wellington, Sydney, Mexico City, Paris and London.
maybe hed like to use another example:
a lockheed lightning p38 was one of a flight of aircraft that crashlanded on Greenland in the early years of wwii. in 1993 one of the aircraft was recovered from the ice.
the salvagers expected to dig through 40 feet of ice accumulated over the 50 odd years and were shocked to discover “The Glacier Girl”was buried under 270 feet of snow.
how can this be u ask…what about goracle warmening?
ROBERT C. BALLING, JR. and Contributing Editor RANDY CERVENY are climatologists at Arizona State University.: explains
“Finally, area temperature records from the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) verify what other climatologists have found about cooling in Greenland. Monthly temperature anomalies for the area near the landing site reveal a cooling of 2.25 degrees F from the time the Lost Squadron touched down in southeastern Greenland until the P-38 Glacier Girl was restored to sunlight 50 years later.
Complicated Cooling
What does that climate information mean? Contrary to what people might expect, southeastern Greenland has been cooling for the last 50 years. Scientific literature indicates that linking temperature trends to changes in ice volume involves a complicated set of processes that defy the simplistic notions about global warming.”plonk!!
As long as the ice in my scotch doesn’t melt I don’t really care.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 09 18 at 08:29 AM • permalinkJean-Michel Cousteau, Jacques’ son, doesn’t seem too bothered by rising sea levels or the prosect of the oceans turning to black goo. He has a luxury eco-resort on the northern Fiji island of Vanua Levu, just out of SavuSavu, offering very expensive diving packages for the suitably wealthy. Not a whisper of a mention of global warming or rising sea levels threatening his livelihood. (He’s such a promoter, you’d hear about it if there was a problem).
Dr Jane McAdam UNSW
Dear One,
I know that you, god bless you, as a renouned academic has been taking an interest and are expert of our little island in asia. As a fine christian woman I write for your asistance. I am Delilah Mblongo, daughter of the late Reverend Dr General Isaah Mblongo the president for life of the island of Lohachara.Unfortunately, the evil capatalists in the subcontinent conspired to produce large amounts of the poisonous carbon bioxide and the resultant catastrofic climate change deluge sunk our island drowning everyone except me. There was only one bridge on our island but my father, a hero true to form, stood on in and went down with his ship, so to speak.
I manged to escape with US $17,324,679 and was wondering if a fine christian woman such as you, and who has, god bless you, such a deep understanding and knowledge of our ex island of Lohachara, wood like to assist me in my efforts to disburse this moneys to various needy peoples. So please send me ............
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 09 18 at 10:32 AM • permalink#18 Paco, we sailed all over the Pacific last year and there’s NO SUCH THING (sorry for the shouty bits) as rising water level. Coral is growing all over the place. It likes warm water, why else would it grow in warm water? Coral doesn’t want global cooling because it doesn’t live in cold water. Ergo, global warming is good for coral and therefore good for Jean Michel Cousteau. Voila!
Sort of off topic here, kill me now…but I thought you military types like the spouse would like to hear about our weekend last Sept 15-16…
Temora NSW Australia, the Warbirds Weekend. Happens every few months out in a tiny town with a big big WW2 airstrip.
Flying schedule last weekend: Tiger Moth, Ryan, Wirraway, Harvard, Boomerang, Spitfire XV1, Meteor, Cessna 01/02/Trojan/Bird Dog, Dragonfly, Canberra, Vampire, F/A18 Hornets X3.
Fantastic day, happens every couple of months, only place in Australia to see these birds, thousands of people behaving nicely with kids & grandkids. Alcohol free, litter free for safety purposes, and nobody whinges, not even the bikies or the bogans.
I’ll believe sea levels are rising when Los Angeles and New York go under.
I see that more as a feature than a bug, Rebecca.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 18 at 01:19 PM • permalinkPlastic turkeys, phony Reagan diaries, islands sunk by global warming ... sounds as if the lefties have the beginnings of their own Wikipedia.
It will need a name. Nominations:
Fic-ipedia
Wish-ipedia
World Almost-nac
Fictionary
Jane’s All the World’s Witchcraft
Cognitive Dissonary
They also have the makings of a physics textbook, in which steel is unaffected by heat, airplanes disappear on impact, and bullets take their shells along for the ride.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 09 18 at 02:20 PM • permalinkPersian Avoidance of Chilean Oversight?
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 09 18 at 02:20 PM • permalinkFar from running a retraction, our ABC is at it again this morning on Radio National’s AM (link not updated as of this posting) running new baloney about the “climate refugees” from the sinking Carteret Islands, a story which has long since been discredited.
On the upside, I’m really cheered up by the Federal Government’s cheesy “Climate Clever” ads, fully of spunky young Asian women and other token ethnics, MILF-y housewives, and tousle-headed teenagers. Nothing kills public interest in an issue as effectively as a government advertising campaign. The last time I sat in a big cinema audience, and one of those ‘dramatic’ road safety ads came on, the audience were cacking themselves laughing, and reciting along with the dialogue.
“Australians know our climate is changing and that greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels like coal, gas and oil are a major cause. A drier, hotter climate will affect our economy, our environment and our way of life.”
Is this true? Do you “know” that?
I don’t see how you can since the whole thing is barely past the hypothesis stage and is hardly a proven fact. I simply find it impossible to believe that any scientist anywhere has figured out the entire workings of the entire climate from this point onward through the next hundred years taking into account all the potential factors that can influence it, and with perfect knowledge of the type and magnitude of those influences. And all based on a measly ten or fifteen years of research. Sorry, Charlie. I just don’t believe it.
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