On Tuesday, CNN twice promoted questionable claims that global warming is threatening to cause some island nations to flood out of existence as anchors Kate Bolduan and Rosemary Church hyped the foreign minister of Tuvalu recording a speech standing in knee-deep water.
Early in the morning, Church informed viewers that former President Barack Obama would be speaking at the COP26 summit, and then recalled the stunt out of Tuvalu: “Participants will also hear from Tuvalu’s foreign minister this week. To highlight the effect of rising sea level on Pacific nations, Church recorded his message behind a podium at knee-deep in water.
Church later brought Mark Maslin, University College London’s, with him.
And in just few hours, former U.S. President Barack Obama will deliver remarks about the threat posed by climate change. And so, too, will the foreign minister of Tuvalu who will highlight the impact of rising water levels by standing in the waters. Do you not think their efforts to address this issue will be as important?
After Maslin fretted that some are trying to undermine the conference, Church admitted that key countries like China and Russia are not participating as she also claimed that there is a climate “emergency.”
Tomorrow morning Here’s What We DoBolduan picked up on the topic of Pacific Nations possibly flooding.
A powerful warning at the international climate conference this morning coming from the foreign minister of the South Pacific nation of Tuvalu, a low-lying island located midway between Hawaii and Australia. The foreign minister standing knee deep in sea water on what used to be dry land to show how urgent the crisis is.
Bill Weir was then hired as the chief climate correspondent of the network and she promoted his coverage at the summit. Weir stated that extreme weather events have been occurring in a pattern that is “unnatural,” suggesting that humans are to blame.
Numerous reports have suggested that Tuvalu may not be losing any land to rising sea levels. Many of the predicated climate conference predictions have not been fulfilled decades later.
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These transcripts are available:
CNN Newsroom
November 9, 2021
Eastern Time: 3:44 AM
ROSEMARY CHURCH: The crucial COP26 climate summit in Glasgow is now entering its second and final week, and negotiations on key issues are expected as countries are being urged to make ambitious commitments. The threat from climate change will be addressed by former President Barack Obama in the next hours. Participants will also hear from Tuvalu’s foreign minister this week. In an attempt to emphasize the effects of rising sea levels upon Pacific countries like his, he recorded his speech behind a podium that was submerged in seawater.
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And in just few hours, former U.S. President Barack Obama will deliver remarks about the threat posed by climate change. And so, too, will the foreign minister of Tuvalu who will highlight the impact of rising water levels by standing in the waters.How important do you believe their contributions will be to the above?
(Mark Maslin of University College London worries some are trying to undermine the talks)
That’s a very important point. Because some world leaders do appear to grasp the emergency our planet faces right nowIt is. But many don’t, including the world’s biggest carbon polluter, China. Russia, Saudi Arabia included. These leaders didn’t bother to go to COP26. What is your concern about the absence of participation? What might this signal?
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CNN’s At This Hour
November 9, 2021
11.47 am
KATE BOLDUAN (before commercial break): Coming up still for us, foreign minister giving a speech knee-deep in water: what his message is to the world today.
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11.51 am.
BOLDUAN A powerful warning at the international climate conference this morning coming from the foreign minister of the South Pacific nation of Tuvalu, a low-lying island located midway between Hawaii and Australia. The foreign minister standing knee deep in sea water on what used to be dry land to show how urgent the crisis is.
SIMON KOFE, TUVALU FOREIGN MINISTER: We cannot wait for speeches when the sea is rising around us all the time. Climate mobility must come to the forefront. We must take bold alternative action today to secure tomorrow.
BOLDUAN: Joining me now, CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir just back from the COP26 climate summit. So, Bill, you just spent six days at the summit in Glasgow, you’ve been covering climate for years, and I have to say, you wrote the most eloquent and biting reporter’s notebook of your takeaways this time that we’ll be posting on CNN.com very soon. Your closing grab is something I would love to see for all.
“It is impossible to visit Glasgow without falling into a cynical despair and hope. Sometimes it can feel like a convention of anonymous global gamblers in a gambling hall. You can then see the bright light that is sustainable in the eyes of an earnest soul, as they talk about all the things worth saving. Tell me more what you learned now that you’re back.
BILL WEIR: Well, you know, it’s so messy, Kate, you know. It’s sort of a crystallization of human nature in so many ways. Yeah, there are so many activists outside frustrated that they can’t get into the hearings — frustrated that it’s just a parade of more promises that we really have been hearing from leaders of the last five American presidents. You know, back in Rio, George H.W. Bush first signed on to the idea that this is an issue and, you know, countries together have to figure it out.
That’s when Michael Keaton was still Batman, you know, and the only thing that’s happened to global climate cooking pollution is it’s gone up, so the fear is that COP26 is not going to be any different from COPs one through 25 even though it’s so in our faces that This conga line is made up of disasters worth billions and that seem to be unnatural.
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