Kiribati - A Climate Change Reality

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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.

[@aggelosthedoom9994]

The link to this video was handed to me and my classmates as homework during quarantine. Like so they can see the comment.

[@aidenduffy6300]

Same

[@erinbusby8032]

Haha same

[@aidenduffy6300]

@@erinbusby8032 yo Erin what up

[@erinbusby8032]

@@aidenduffy6300 not much, quarantine sucks😑

[@verschlxfte3152]

Same haha

[@joojolie]

"to migrate with dignity" such great words from Kiribati's president. Let's all help each other.

[@IthamarLara]

2:04

[@EmmaWk2000]

it's such a beautiful place, i can't imagine living there for years and years and have to leave.

[@vickylanding2830]

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

[@justinm4363]

12 years later and they're still there. Can you say hoax anyone? It's called erosion not climate change dummies

[@sebribo1873]

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."

[@khaledabdul-baqi5233]

Who else here for school 😂 IM ON 69 LIKES NO ONE LIKE THIS ANYMORE

[@ylias9826]

Me ahah

[@spiralair9978]

lol

[@NFT.Condor]

me im a italian students hahahah

[@khaledabdul-baqi5233]

@@NFT.Condor lmao

[@justcallmemichelle9185]

Me hahahaah

[@teikiribati2]

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

[@justinm4363]

Thankfully the island is still there 12 years later. A lot of good all that fear-mongering and climate change hoax garbage did

[@kevinwalker5798]

14 year after this video it is still here.

[@MilesHadley]

I can only imagine how much work that man must have went through to muilt that seawall around his home.

[@t.s.s.6385]

alors comment aler vous 12 ans après😅

[@MilesHadley]

@@t.s.s.6385 I'm doing good nowadays, thank you for asking! Definitely better than I was 12 years ago.😂

[@t.s.s.6385]

@@MilesHadley perfect then🤣

[@mkeating]

"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

[@TheMatthewRed]

David Katoatau thank you for bringing much needed attention to this problem.

[@alwayswithaperson4737]

സൂപ്പർ അടിപൊളി good place. I'm from india kerala. Abu Zain

[@ElenaTee]

Our planet is changing....

[@shivangijha1041]

Elena Tee you 😯😯😯

[@spiralair9978]

jha ayaye

[@VansterdamStoner420]

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

[@RaZoRGoZ]

When the time to leave comes, I hope that we in Australia are in a position to help. :) Goz in Perth.

[@TheDragonNight5]

this comment was 9 years ago :(

[@biancaa9798]

this comment is 10 years old 😳

[@tyronedsouza]

Just don't send them off to Manus.

[@justinm4363]

12 years later it still hasn't sunk quit lying

[@justinm4363]

@@biancaa9798 that just proves it was a hoax they still haven't sunk yet

[@dyingangelo]

THIS IS THE RESULT OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE

[@bagusbaik1232]

God please save the small island countries in Pacific Ocean...👍👍👍

[@flexoduss]

He's not gonna help :)

[@cincocharms1233]

These islands are sinking. It is not anything to do with global warming. Pathetic ignorance!

[@LjubicaRossiRoncevic]

mi e piacuto molto mare cosi trasparente ,,pulito,,,e con quelle nuovole nere molto bello,

[@anitahajdu9130]

whether climate change or no climate change.. THis is my next Holiday destination ... Lovely people, lovely place

[@alliecravulz]

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?

[@lorenzoblum868]

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....

[@GandharaBlogspotCa]

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.

[@RayPalms]

10 years ago...

[@Muthruchi]

How is it now....

[@datechds9434]

@@Muthruchi The same. Literally nothing changed.

[@senor2930]

@@datechds9434 something changed. They convinced the sheep to pay carbon tax & buy flammable electric cars! They banked on the fear of climate boogeyman.

[@elementoneutr0]

You are welcome in Brazil. So sorry about that 😭

[@kakavkaratengaru2482]

Thanks

[@ErnestoA64]

hey, that karen is my mom

[@crazyjohnhoward]

I am sorry this happen to your home island and good luck with the relocation effort.

[@furionkiwi]

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????

[@cincocharms1233]

Nature's cycle. Not global warming. The politicization of environmental issues is simply unacceptable.

[@dracoqueen1263]

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.

[@thomasbarlow4223]

@@dracoqueen1263 its been 90f 23c for the last few weeks in Florida. We've had like no winter this year.

[@UNDP]

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.

[@paulaangeloni105]

So Sad!! and Unfair to them. Lets all do some thing about it

[@awakefortwoweeks4770]

we cant do shit about this, sorry. Even if had stopped pollution 10 years ago, it would have still rose up

[@cincocharms1233]

Go for it you big dummy. Throw some of your money at the "problem".

[@elementoneutr0]

Let's just ask for some space donation from Russia, they got a lot to give

[@truthsupporter4119]

Do you have an idea on an affordable way to control the tectonic plates to stop the island from sinking?

[@EmrysEnergy]

My heart goes out to your Kiribati

[@XTPimplik]

this president knows better english than Sarkozy

[@punitkumarpal7]

10 years have passed now , not sure how much more his home would have eroded.

[@ĐłłĐĐØ27]

I wish there was something I could do to help

[@cathyruatu6420]

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.

[@there544]

y this ALWAYS at the top of youtube?

[@krystalkaz]

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.

[@akent46]

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.

[@krishnatv2135]

from India my god bless all

[@lockdown8716]

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.

[@kem7882]

It's been 10 years ago, what happened now? Anyone watching during October 2020?

[@Swedishpersondude]

Its just getting colder here in Sweden :P was the coldest winter in 20 years, last X-mas and now it shud be a even colder winter :)

[@bobbydylan099]

why would anyone dislike this video...

[@Eminonna]

Miedo Ambiente. ¿No estara bajando el suelo marino, cosa que sucede, y su inversa, muy a menudo?. Y en al Atlantico y Pacifico, continuamente.

[@SuperSunspot]

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?

[@furtado74511]

Tres Importante,,

[@nococoenorelogioDRjoãoneto]

🇧🇷🇧🇷estou em 2021 ela está do mesmo jeito. Não perdeu nenhuma ilha

[@Andytk33]

TTTT man, great channel, together to the toppppp !!!

[@MrAkhalesh]

Its a Gud video presenting of nature effect, obviously human can nothing doing in front of nature but he can try to safe........

[@qualqui]

Wow, to lose touch with your homeland is a real bummer,....my heart goes out to the people of Kiribati.

[@5766546]

Paul Kench at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and Arthur Webb at the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission in Fiji released a study in 2010 on the dynamic response of reef islands to sea level rise in the central Pacific. Kiribati was mentioned in the study, and Webb and Kench found that the three major urbanised islands in Kiribati - Betio, Bairiki and Nanikai - increased by 30 per cent (36 hectares), 16.3 per cent (5.8 hectares) and 12.5 per cent (0.8 hectares), respectively.

[@Edenthedjguy-wedding-djs]

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. edenthedjguy

[@crywars]

this video has been on "browse for over 6 moths now. why?

[@TheAMDkid]

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.

[@gpsotsomfwhdsf0324]

🙁

[@heysalovesyah]

bring them to Australia. We will accept them with open arms and be respected. They are beautiful people!!

[@barnygomezfer]

que hermosa naturalesa...... wwwuuuo. beautiful

[@hedgewytche]

Would it be too hard to re-home this tiny population into a similar environment such as Norfolk Island.. or Pitcairn Island.... or...?

[@Gulipad]

the woman talks in questions like "more than a meter a sea level rise?" "that amount comes very far inland?"

[@sebribo1873]

50 - 100 cm measured/ starting from 1900 until 2100 is > 90 % certain.

[@humanrightslawyer]

@jedikingz thats the very place, in fact, Tarawa is the main atoll of Kiribati where the main town is located

[@goldolso]

Que hermoso paisaje que agua tan cristalina! A que pais pertenece la isla? y Cual es la isla?

[@Ps119]

When land goes down it looks like the sea level has risen. Land goes up and down all over the globe.

[@WagglyApples]

i feel bad for those people. they seem to live nicely there, wish we were more together to save the planet - sweden

[@AlgisKemezys]

great

[@paulinotou]

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.

[@thomasdarroch66]

@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.

[@alSation81]

@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)

[@mrpb4084]

If this was in 2009 how is it now in 2020

[@Xakryn]

Subduction only occurs at the boundaries of tectonic plates, this is not near one of those.

[@Tonkadude1001]

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.

[@Lost_in_Goa]

what kind of music? thanks

[@RarewareLover]

@Mikkins What other sunken cities and ancient ports are you talking about that happened naturally?

[@frededison]

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.

[@08noiram08]

why do people don't like this video ?

[@vXJBOMBERXv]

@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.

[@ChaiTea31]

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.

[@skysurfyou]

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.

[@justinm4363]

12 years later and this dump is still on the map

[@Murf077]

sure they move all the time, how long does a grass house last? the big question is how much do you want

[@Buntzums]

why is this the only video allowed on News and Politics on YT right now? I'm confused.

[@TheCaptainQuinn]

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

[@LostInTYB]

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.....

[@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies]

@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.

[@shagster1970]

This is not global warming. This is a small island - this happens all the time. The coastline changes - wow what a surprise.

[@Fradiga]

Good of you to put this up. The name of the country is Kiribati (the local pronunciation of "Gilbert", as it was called Gilbert Islands before their independance.

[@arnuxii]

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.

[@JCJ77]

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.

[@Gilgamesh417]

They don't look like they could be capable of building a canal system to deal with severe rises in ocean height.

[@Gilgamesh417]

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.

[@FangFiftyFive]

@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.

[@vXJBOMBERXv]

@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.

[@bfbhunter]

nice

[@roygreenwood79]

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

[@Defenstrator]

@CelticSponge If we stop using paper we'll stop planting trees? How does that even make sense?

[@GenocideGirl]

interested enough though, i dunno if kiribati is a archipelago though

[@RetiredHoodlifter]

Water levels itself . why is it not rising in other places? Or is the sand being washed away?

[@furionkiwi]

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.

[@HamSupZhai]

what song did they use for this video? its really relaxing

[@SatpalTkO]

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.

[@arnuxii]

@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.

[@bluebell707]

Very devastating.

[@williambrownjim]

i saw this like a year ago its still awesome

[@spiralair9978]

is it still

[@lathaarige5101]

KZbin recommends to me after 10 years...to make me realise that change is real

[@justinm4363]

Is change really real? 12 years later and the island is still there I call that fear-mongering and climate change hoax

[@Macangusagain]

@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 !!!!!!

[@dwwolf2006]

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!

[@frankfrank65]

All you need to know from this country.They are the first to celebrate the new year.

[@Edenthedjguy-wedding-djs]

So if the waters raised by 1 metre there, why hasn't it raised 1 metre anywhere else?

[@Notc64]

Blud does not know about geography and sea levels