Christopher Booker has a typically entertaining and informative item in the Saturday Telegraph detailing the nonsense underlying climate alarmists’ claims about rapidly rising oceans levels — and particularly those of the poster children for those claims, the archipelago nations of the Maldives and Tuvalu.
The piece reminded me of something I was told back when I spent time commuting fairly regularly to Brussels about a big lobbying campaign there on behalf of the Maldives – by (if memory serves) Hill & Knowlton – for what I was told was about $400,000 USD per year in lobbying fees. I wrote this in the EU Reporter, and heard nothing back challenging the claim.
What did the Maldives want? Millions in EU development funds to build beachfront resort hotels, all while demanding at least as much to compensate them for supposedly rapidly rising sea levels which — if true – would rather obviate the utility of such investments. Possibly the Maldives government had an internal failure to communicate about such matters.
Not that the global-warming industry has earned our expectation of consistency or (since this episode certainly raises the question) of honesty. Still, if the hyper-alarmist EU Commission did throw taxpayer money down that particular hole all while engaging in its global warming dance, well, that would be a good story. Possibly Christopher will look into that.
Regardless of whether the EU saw the inconsistency and didn’t spend money that way, the Maldives’. . . opportunism . . . is a useful anecdote for the global-warming discussion.