A section of a $24.5m wall built on Saibai Island to keep out sea water from a sinking land mass. The rocks were brought by barge from Cairns, 1400 klm to the south
The unscientific nonsense of climate change and excessive carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is somehow making sea levels rise in the Torres Strait is incoherent and driving Sabai Islanders to sue the Federal Government for failing to cut greenhouse emissions.
There is no scientific, measurable evidence that Australian sea levels are rising anywhere around the continent and for Federal Court judges to think otherwise reveals a poor understanding and interpretation of marine data otherwise manipulated by shifty environmental bodies and untruthful lawyers.
Geologists and scientists have told Cairns News in past years several geologically unstable mud and coral cays in the Torres Strait are actually sinking but larger islands are much more stable and are not sinking or is the sea level rising.
devious lawyers, dodgy UN environmentalists, the ALP, Greens and ABC
The Indian Ocean has not risen one millimetre in the past 100 years or has the sea level in Sydney Harbour or the Coral Sea and oceans surrounding the continent are connected. Doesn’t water find its own level?
https://cairnsnews.org/2021/12/12/indian-ocean-sea-levels-rise-0-00mm-over-past-century/
During closing arguments in the climate case of Saibai Islanders Pabai Pabai v Commonwealth of Australia in the Cairns Federal Court on May 3, the Commonwealth claimed it did not have a duty of care to protect people of the Torres Strait from climate change, as they could take steps to protect themselves.
The judge said this argument had “an air of unreality.”
Uncle Pabai and Uncle Paul are seeking orders from the court that require the federal government to prevent this harm to their communities, including cutting greenhouse gas emissions in line with the best available science.
They are claiming rising sea levels and distressing inaction for failing to prevent climate change would, according to lead Counsel for the applicants Fiona McLeod SC, make Islanders stand to lose their very identity as people of their islands due to climate change, and that the government has never proposed emissions reduction targets consistent with reducing global warming to 1.5C.
“This case concerns an incontrovertible truth – a truth that has been widely acknowledged by the Commonwealth in a number of ways and places for more than a decade – that our First People in the Torres Strait are and will be brutally impacted by climate change and they have and will continue to suffer devastating losses,” Ms McLeod said.
Four years ago Cairns News received intelligence that three Chinese ‘businessmen’ had rented a shop on Yam Island in the Torres Strait purporting to sell merchandise. However it seemed the Chinese men, who appeared to have a military presence about them according to locals, were more interested in movements of their own fishing vessels and that of Border Force and the Navy.
Federal Parliamentarian Bob Katter raised the Yam Island issue and next day the Chinese departed the island. How many and whose palms were greased to allow this foreign incursion is unknown.
This follows another attempt by Chinese nationals, all having a military presence about them according to local inhabitants, who visited Cape York five years ago trying to buy the Tip from local Aborigines and Islanders.
This site included the abandoned Pajinka Resort once operated by defunct airlines TAA and Bush Pilots in the late 80’s. The Tip of Cape York is recognized world-wide as a must-do tourist destination for 80,000 annual visitors who make the arduous trek to get their photos taken next to the iconic sign on the water’s edge of the Coral Sea.
Two years ago Cairns News was told of PNG ‘sorcerers’ allegedly recruited by Torres Strait identity Getano Lui, father of State Labor MP Cynthia Lui, coming to Yam Island to control obstinate islanders.
Such is the culture of the Torres Strait that these good-hearted, God-fearing people have been conned by tricky environmental bodies and programmed media into believing the climate change myth will bring them vast fortune by screwing the federal government which is funding both sides of the legal argument in the Cairns court.
Climate change in 1947?
From a Queensland Government historical publication:
In 1947, king tides caused serious damage to properties and gardens across Saibai Island. Bamaga Ginau called a meeting regarding the future of Saibai and after much discussion a number of families made the decision to leave Saibai and move to the mainland. The first Torres Strait Islander families left Saibai on the pearl luggers Millard and Macoy and arrived at Muttee Heads in June 1947, where they established a temporary settlement. The Islanders set up four camps (Jungle, Radar Hill, Surum and Dry Damper) and used old army buildings as housing. Work began on building new houses and a church. An Islanders Board of Industry and Service (IBIS) store, medical post and vegetable garden were also established. By 1949, the population of the settlement was close to 300 people.
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