IPCC Chair trots out Hitler
April 27, 2004
http://www.globalwarming.org/node/595
(also, http://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/foia/cei/2_ex_654.pdf)
"Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), compared Bjrn Lomborg, Danish statistician and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, to Adolf Hitler in an interview with Jyllandsposten, a leading Danish newspaper (Apr. 21).
Pachauri said, What is the difference between Lomborg's view of humanity and Hitler's? You cannot treat people like cattle. You must respect the diversity of cultures on earth. Lomborg thinks of people like numbers. He thinks it would be cheaper just to evacuate people from the Maldives, rather than trying to prevent world sea levels from rising so that island groups like the Maldives or Tuvalu just disappear into the sea. But where's the respect for people in that? People have a right to live and die in the place where their forefathers have lived and died. If you were to accept Lomborgs way of thinking, then maybe what Hitler did was the right thing. (English translation published on the internet by DR Nyheder)"
Island Nations Threatened By Climate Change
Friday, 26 September 2008
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0809/S00619.htm
"Although numerous global conferences on climate change have touted the need for adaptation and mitigation measures, they are not enough to help these countries, Kiribati’s President Anote Tong said, noting that his country has only several decades before its islands are uninhabitable.
Kiribati is not a major emitter of greenhouse gases, making mitigation measures on its part limited, and it lacks sufficient resources to build seawalls to protect private property, he said. Further, adaptation is impossible because the islands are too small and narrow, lacking higher ground for their inhabitants to seek refuge from rising waters.
Therefore, the country has had no choice but to formulate a “long-term merit-based relocation strategy,” given the possibility that all 100,000 people in Kiribati must one day move elsewhere.
“This strategy involves the upskilling of our people to make them competitive and marketable at international labour markets,” Mr. Tong said."