Kiribati - A Climate Change Reality
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
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Boobu Tioram, a resident of the Pacific island of Kirabati, took time out from reinforcing a seawall in front of his newly built house to speak with UNDP about what climate change has meant to his way of life.
I have moved three times, every three years I have moved, he said, standing on the beach a few metres from his home. Tioram gestured toward a point about 20 metres into the sea, and explained that his first house once stood on a spot now covered in swelling ocean waves. Each time he has moved farther inland, and each time the sea has followed.
Im not sure how long Ill be [in this house], Tioram continued. That depends on how strong my seawall here can withstand high tide waves.
UNDP believes that it is the developing world that stands to lose the most, and which is already losing out, as the effects of climate change edge toward the catastrophic. As climate negotiations open in Copenhagen, worlds away from this tiny Pacific nation consisting of 33 low lying atolls, it is important to keep in mind that for the people of Kirabati, and other poor island and coastal nations, funds for adaptation and not only prevention must top the international to-do list.
Carbon trading will be of no special consequence to us, so there has got to be some very special provisions for the victims, said Kirabati President Anote Tong. Not the potential victims, but the victims, because we are the victims, so there has to be some very deep soul searching.
Kirabati is no more than four metres high at its highest point, and 100 percent of the population lives within one kilometre of the coast, making this nation one of the most vulnerable to the effects of global warming. Its future is uncertain, including the question of whether it even has a future anymore.
The scientific research shows that by 2100 its almost certain that well have more than a metre of sea level rise, said Karen Bernard, a UNDP programme specialist in natural disaster reduction and transition. On a flat island like Kirabati that mount of sea level rise comes very far inland.
Its a very serious situation, Bernard continued. For that reason, the Government is looking for options for relocating the population.
The link to this video was handed to me and my classmates as homework during quarantine. Like so they can see the comment.
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@@erinbusby8032 yo Erin what up
@@aidenduffy6300 not much, quarantine sucks😑
Same haha
"to migrate with dignity" such great words from Kiribati's president. Let's all help each other.
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it's such a beautiful place, i can't imagine living there for years and years and have to leave.
So understandable but you know we all going to have to die. And some point in our life we came here with nothing and we going to leave with nothing that's just part of life read your Bible accept Jesus Christ God gave His only begotten son for our sins amen
12 years later and they're still there. Can you say hoax anyone? It's called erosion not climate change dummies
tell this the millions of people travelling to Maldives, Seychelles, Bahamas etc. every year.
But expect answers such as: "We can only fight CC in a systematic way that is directed by the governments."
Who else here for school 😂 IM ON 69 LIKES NO ONE LIKE THIS ANYMORE
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@@NFT.Condor lmao
Me hahahaah
i used to live there 7 years ago when i was 9 but now im in New Zealand, maybe more people will do the same like me but it will be sad leaving, and im still kinda sad
Thankfully the island is still there 12 years later. A lot of good all that fear-mongering and climate change hoax garbage did
"Hey dude, your island's going to be underwater in a hundred years. You gotta move!" People adapt. Life goes on. Looks like a nice spot though
David Katoatau thank you for bringing much needed attention to this problem.
സൂപ്പർ അടിപൊളി good place.
I'm from india kerala. Abu Zain
I can only imagine how much work that man must have went through to muilt that seawall around his home.
alors comment aler vous 12 ans après😅
@@t.s.s.6385 I'm doing good nowadays, thank you for asking! Definitely better than I was 12 years ago.😂
@@MilesHadley perfect then🤣
10 years have passed now , not sure how much more his home would have eroded.
I wish there was something I could do to help
Our planet is changing....
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jha ayaye
You are welcome in Brazil. So sorry about that 😭
Thanks
When the time to leave comes, I hope that we in Australia are in a position to help. :)
Goz in Perth.
this comment was 9 years ago :(
this comment is 10 years old 😳
Just don't send them off to Manus.
12 years later it still hasn't sunk quit lying
@@biancaa9798 that just proves it was a hoax they still haven't sunk yet
THIS IS THE RESULT OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
God please save the small island countries in Pacific Ocean...👍👍👍
He's not gonna help :)
These islands are sinking. It is not anything to do with global warming. Pathetic ignorance!
I am sorry this happen to your home island and good luck with the relocation effort.
whether climate change or no climate change.. THis is my next Holiday destination ... Lovely people, lovely place
How stupid is your comment ...These people are struggling and what are you going to do? Fly there burning some more fossil fuel and waving your 1st world dollars at them? All for the sake of having a great holiday? Enjoy these islands while there still there?
Yeah burn some fuel get a new car travel by plane eat food with great packaging buy a lot of stuff. That's the way to respond the global disasters....
Agreed.
Weather patterns are altered by climate change, which is actually a symptom of cycles of global weather patterns measured by the decades.
However, urbanization of the developed world is affecting the climate of the whole world i.e. absorbing more heat during summer, depleting water supplies, pollution etc.
10 years ago...
How is it now....
@@Muthruchi The same. Literally nothing changed.
@@datechds9434 something changed. They convinced the sheep to pay carbon tax & buy flammable electric cars! They banked on the fear of climate boogeyman.
i went to kiribati in 7th grade which was 3 years ago.my parents and I took a cruise down there which first went to hawaii.most amazing place on the planet
hey, that karen is my mom
from India my god bless all
I have been around nearly 60 years and the sea level has not risen where i live in new Zealand. mind you and its made of rock, not coral. You dont suppose their place is actually sinking????
Nature's cycle. Not global warming. The politicization of environmental issues is simply unacceptable.
As A New Zealander Living By A Beach, I'm Afraid Not, The Sea Is Rising And I've Watched The Weather And Average Temperature Of Where I Live Rise, It's Been Years Since I Last Saw A Frost Like We Used To Get.
@@dracoqueen1263 its been 90f 23c for the last few weeks in Florida. We've had like no winter this year.
Thankyou for sharing this with us, Climate Change is a reality and the People of Kirabati are vulnerable and I believe we all should give support and help them in any way, but many others are also going to be in the same situation, Your awareness of Climate change and how we can change our destructive ways is very important.
So Sad!! and Unfair to them. Lets all do some thing about it
we cant do shit about this, sorry. Even if had stopped pollution 10 years ago, it would have still rose up
Go for it you big dummy. Throw some of your money at the "problem".
Let's just ask for some space donation from Russia, they got a lot to give
Do you have an idea on an affordable way to control the tectonic plates to stop the island from sinking?
UNDP strongly believes that climate change is already effecting the poorest and most vulnerable population in the world and will continue to effect them first and foremost.
Any deal reached in Copenhagen should be a development deal that takes into account the needs of these vulnerable populations.
14 year after this video it is still here.
Although the influence of climate on human activities has declined with the growth in wealth and resources, climate still has a significant effect on disease and health. A cold wet climate confines people to close quarters, abetting contagion. In the past, a shift towards a poorer climate has led to hunger and famine, making disease more virulent. Before the industrial revolution and improved technology, a series of bad years could be devastating.
mi e piacuto molto mare cosi trasparente ,,pulito,,,e con quelle nuovole nere molto bello,
bring them to Australia. We will accept them with open arms and be respected. They are beautiful people!!
When land goes down it looks like the sea level has risen. Land goes up and down all over the globe.
🇧🇷🇧🇷estou em 2021 ela está do mesmo jeito. Não perdeu nenhuma ilha
I agree. Another example is the Brittish Isles. They used to be connected to the rest of Europe but because of Global warming ten thousand or so ago they are now separate. Is Man to blame for that little incident?
this president knows better english than Sarkozy
My heart goes out to your Kiribati
God is the answer pray repent , believe God can do anything as long as we put our faith in Him
Salome pine. That's what humans do. They misbehave and then go pray. But if we had enough foresight to understand that GOD IS EARTH and not some dude somewhere sitting on a cloud like all religions have taught us, maybe things wouldn't be what things are.....
We're brainwashed with religion television and a lot more. All we think about is how to earn more money in order to get more stuff... And religion is another way to make us accept things that shouldn't be through the promise of a better world in some heaven in which people who deny climate change believe.
They don't believe in climate change but they believe in life after death. Humans are screwed.
TTTT man, great channel, together to the toppppp !!!
I come from that place and the place where i used to sluff my classes during primary is now covered with the body of seawater it is sad to see this because in the future my children will not have any place to sluff their classes.
Its a Gud video presenting of nature effect, obviously human can nothing doing in front of nature but he can try to safe........
I from there and half my family members live there.HOW SAD IS THAT.But I've been living in New Zealand for SIX YEARS.
@DoraTheDino If you look at a map, Kiribati is near the subduction fault line between the Pacific and Australian plates. I will freely admit that geography is not my specialty, but I have enough training in it to know that is at least plausible. If that is your field, please do explain because I want to know.
Besides, this "documentary" is proposing that this is caused by sea-level rise, but the amount of rise in living memory is on the order of centimetres, not metres.
why would anyone dislike this video...
@NavyPorpoiseMovement this is directly due to sea level rise. erosion contributes to sea level rise. that is like saying the house burning down is due to the fire not the match that lit it.
RUclips recommends to me after 10 years...to make me realise that change is real
Is change really real? 12 years later and the island is still there I call that fear-mongering and climate change hoax
why do people don't like this video ?
moving all the stones from the beach will allow the beach to erode,(sand moving away) The stones should be placed in such a way that it helps to capture and retain sand.
They are two separate events but they can interact with each other. Scientific evidence strongly suggests that the effects of pollution on the atmosphere is producing abnormal global climate patterns (i.e., accelerated global warming outside of normal global warming/cooling cycles). Taxing carbon is certainly one method of encouraging innovative thinking concerning pollution management. While the effects of taxing carbon won't save their home now, it might allow them to move back in the future.
Try glacial isostatic adjustment, or even volcanic / tectonics, either could acount for the islands actually sinking, in some part's of the world seas are receding, which would mean the ground is heaving upwards, so in other's it's sinking a lot depending on where you live
Climate change is 99% natural and 1% man-made.
However humankind's small contribution actually has a bigger impact on the other 99% because its 1% upsets the delicate balance which the earh is maintaining.
All you need to know from this country.They are the first to celebrate the new year.
I think BP has it right... Coat the ocean with oil so that there is no water evaporation. Good Job BP. I hope you never drill another hole.
Wow, to lose touch with your homeland is a real bummer,....my heart goes out to the people of Kiribati.
have you ever wondered what the reality of our actions are too? It is not easy to leave our homes behind, like the earth leaving a erroded seashore, but taming her is like floating out on the ocean.
Subduction only occurs at the boundaries of tectonic plates, this is not near one of those.
@chefawkes Maybe, oil companies who want to make oil more expensive. And the greenhouse gases we are emitting are gases that where in the atmosphere before.
@chefawkes If I recall correctly, I did not say much about human bodies or the CO2 inside them. I'm not sure how one can relate the CO2 composition of the world to humans, quite interesting.
And because you can't understand my sentence from before, I'll break it down for you:
"And the greenhouse gases we are emitting are gases that where in the atmosphere before."
CO2 is naturally found on Earth, long before humans were around. In case you did not know CO2 is critical for plants to survive.
Essentially people are requesting we completely change our lives so that other people we don't know don't have to change their lives. If its him or me I pick me every time and I would expect him to do the same. He knows the ocean is about to swallow his island- he should probably move then and he shouldn't expect me to give him my land or my house or anything.
SOMEONE please answer this!
If the sea level has risen by 1 metre there, doesn't that mean it should rise by 1 metre everywhere else?
Also, I heard about something called a "subduction zone" and that Kiribati and another tiny pacific island called Tuvalu were in the zone. Can anyone explain what this means?
Thanks in advance.
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@jedikingz thats the very place, in fact, Tarawa is the main atoll of Kiribati where the main town is located
y this ALWAYS at the top of youtube?
It's not just that the climate is changing, it's that it's changing at the rapid speed it is. Too fast for it to be naturally caused. As time progresses, the changes (glacier melting, etc.) are even exceeding prior global warming predictions, because of the inherent and inevitable domino effect, where one thing changed affects another thing and changes it all down the line.
i feel bad for those people. they seem to live nicely there, wish we were more together to save the planet - sweden
@wazroady it is also not about fear, but about doing some changes that are not too much asked. you dont have to live in fear, but you should be respectful to those who will be affected. you might be affected, too. but you should not just care for yourself.
if you just say it's part of the earth's cycles, you haven't really dug into the science but just put up your own theory.
what you basically say is that your opinion is better than science.
@SirGecko01 You have a very pure view of the reality we live in. That's all I can say. One day you will grow up and realize, that there is more to "mother nature" then cleansing and purifying.
@Conan568 you make my point so clearly,I hesitate to make it again myself. Anyone reading my posting with half a clue would know I was talking about the height of land areas expressed as feet above sea level,which is the widely accepted measure of height of land in relation to sea level. Anyone with half a clue would have understood that , but apparently not you !!!!!!
the woman talks in questions like "more than a meter a sea level rise?" "that amount comes very far inland?"
50 - 100 cm measured/ starting from 1900 until 2100 is > 90 % certain.
This is not global warming. This is a small island - this happens all the time. The coastline changes - wow what a surprise.
The greenies would lap this up but the sea level has only changed by 8 inches in the last hundred years, not enough to explain what is shown in the video.
Post glacial rebound is about land rising after the glaciers go, not falling.
But there are many other reasons for land to rise or fall.
@Alexanderstuve
I'm an SI person but my source was the wiki sea level article which was probably from a USA source.
I'm not a climate change skeptic. The climate always changes and has mostly been warmer than now so I think the alarmists are wrong.
A happy healthy environment equals healthy happy people. If all of our "resources" are tapped they are gone from an environmental standpoint and and economical standpoint. Either way, we are stupid to not focus more on the health of our environment. We aim to promote the outdoors to save the outdoors by encouraging people to develop a relationship with mother nature so they recognize the true value of a healthy environment.
-Captain Quinn
I'd like to remind those people who are ignorant that the Kirabati people im sure never choose to live in these islands and cannot forsee the consequences of climate change. It has happened before where most of florida including the keys were submerged deep in water, but the difference is that now homo sapiens have established culture, and we live. Therefore don't call these people stupid.
12 years later and this dump is still on the map
same thing is happening on guam, although we are bigger it is still present. i remember a beach a couple hundred yards from my grandparents house was a smooth beach, now its a little cliff slowly eroding.
If you don't care about money, can't you build a concrete dam about 2-3 meters high around the island?
After a storm the state can use water pumps to get rid of the water.
Further to the Netherlands reclamation issue.
IMF help for intelligent design of an artificial Island is more than feasible with current technology. Kiribati needs to build serious sea walls using heavy mining machinery, and ocean floor dredging to build height. Done with an ecological bias, it could provide these wonderful people with dignity, purpose and the pacific region would gain a future ecological attraction.
Please, it's not only about climate change. It's about make a better place to live too. I don't wanna live on an trash planet.
i lived in kiribati from 2001-2002. i would be very interested to see how much it has changed since. would love to go there again.
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It's been 10 years ago, what happened now? Anyone watching during October 2020?
@PappaKnowsBest To be fair New Zealand is a subduction zone in the pacific too, however being further from the equator, we can still live in our house near the beach that was built a hundred years ago.
Miedo Ambiente. ¿No estara bajando el suelo marino, cosa que sucede, y su inversa, muy a menudo?. Y en al Atlantico y Pacifico, continuamente.
At the equator earths radius is equal to 6,378.1 km compared to 6,356.8 km at the poles (see Wikipedia "Earth"), the slowing rotation is causing subsidence along the equator, in theory the poles should be rising.
We add one second of time to atomic clocks every 500 days,
Earths rotation speed is slowing as it has done since the birth of time measurement.
This fact has an enormous effect on climate change and has done so since the ice age, Parameters change equals Climate change!
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great video... kiribati is such a nice country... let's save kiribati...
I've spoken with a scientist (nuclear physicist) about this issue, and he said that the effects of CO2 is nothing compared to the warming effects produced by methane gas. Methane gas is 20 times more potent. There are marshes in Russia, hundreds and hundreds of square miles that give of methane gas, that the effects are far greater than all the CO2 produced by man in the entire world.
Even if all production ceased, it would make absolutely no difference.
50 billion tonnes greenhouse gases emitted by men into the atmosphere EVERY YEAR makes no difference?
I live in Tybee Island GA, for the last 5 years more than 50% of the beach has been eroded by sea level rise (tides are getting higher). This is not a joke people. them oceans are a'risin fast !! I live two blocks from the beach, and it is scary when the high tide and winds bring the water to my driveway !!
There ain't a damn thing any one can do, it's just going to happen. I hope I can sell my house before then. PRAY.....
One tsunami and Kiribati is gone. Maybe we should find a way to blame earthquakes, volcanoes and tectonic shifts on people too. Imagine the tax dollars that would bring in. The people of Kiribati seem lovely and I really do wish them the best!
@mysticmeg111 thats impossible. The sea level / ocean level is the same around the world because of gravity. If it didn't raise in the Antarctic it didn't raise in the arctic
this place is sinking because its a coral atoll. Not because the sea level is rising. I live by the sea in New zealand and I can assure you that their is no change in sea levels here over the last 50 years I lived here.
They don't look like they could be capable of building a canal system to deal with severe rises in ocean height.
Thia is such a beautiful place and beautiful people an the ocean is goin to take away this place.
@PappaKnowsBest I wasn't speaking to the issue of Climate change at all, just an observation that this particular issue may be due to subduction rather than rizing water levels.
@FreeiHerbCoupon
Exactly?? You've taken photographs and measured with surveying equipment?
Going to the beach every now and again is very different to living on its doorstep. I've seen the beach here narrow quite severely (Melbourne bayside)
que hermosa naturalesa...... wwwuuuo. beautiful
Nor do they know about the people in other places living on rubbish dumps". I used the word "unlike". I NEVER implied that Kiribati people were at the same social level as the poor of Africa, South America and Asia. I am trying to say that it will be difficult emotionally for people on Kiribati to move to a place that will not be covered with water.
Earth giveth, and Earth taketh away.
It looks like the island is eroading and being washed away by the sea, not the sea level rising, and last time i checked erosion is a natural force. I feel bad for these people hope they find a way to stop the erosion.
Tres Importante,,
Some islands are sinking, other islands are rising. It has been always that way--the earth's crust is a dynamic structure. In other cases it is just parts--Iceland is larger than 100 years ago. You won't find on the Jamaica's map Port Royal for a few centuries now.
@Mikkins
What other sunken cities and ancient ports are you talking about that happened naturally?
We only pass our responsibility to others. Is it the way the world should go on? We are running the risk of self extinction.