Maldives Government Holds Undersea Cabinet Meeting

Hugh Pickens writes "The president of the Maldives and 11 ministers, decked out in scuba gear, held a cabinet meeting 4m underwater to highlight the threat of global warming to the low-lying Indian Ocean nation. While officials said the event itself was light-hearted, the idea is to focus on the plight of the Maldives, where rising sea levels threaten to make the nation uninhabitable by the end of the century. President Mohamed Nasheed and his cabinet spent half an hour on the sea bed, communicating with white boards and hand signals and signed a document calling for global cuts in carbon emissions. The Maldives has already begun to divert a portion of the country's billion-dollar annual tourist revenue to buy a new homeland as an insurance policy against climate change that threatens to turn the 300,000 islanders into environmental refugees. Emerging out of the water, a dripping President Nasheed removed his mask to answer questions from reporters and photographers crowded around on the shore. 'We are trying to send a message to the world about what is happening and what would happen to the Maldives if climate change isn't checked,' he said, bobbing around in the water with his team of ministers. 'If the Maldives is not saved, today we do not feel there is much chance for the rest of the world.'"

Comments

Re:CO2 cutbacks cannot stop climate change

[martas]

so corals have herpes? wow, your mom's really been busy, hasn't she...

Re:CO2 cutbacks cannot stop climate change

[Ex-MislTech]

Got a link that shows we put out 10 times as much CO2 as the volcanoes ???

Last I heard it was the other way round, kinda like the fact that the temperature
goes up and 800 years later the CO2 goes up, ie. 800 year lagging.

Mr. Gore failed to mention that in his Inconvenient lie.

Re:sceince

[Burnhard]

Can you grow, gather, or hunt for your own food? If not you'll be depending on those who can, like me. I've hunted with nothing but a knife, can weave a net, and know where to look for drinking water. I have also preserved my own food, by canning, dehydrating or drying, and by smoking it.

I guessed you'd been smoking it already. I live in a modern society. I have all of the benefits of technocracy and progress at my disposal. If you can get by with just a knife, a net and your own urine, then good for you. I'd rather go to a supermarket in my car, thanks very much.