If anyone has the remedy for these islands please tell us but especially Oxfam, COP27, etc etc.

It is too late for many low-lying islands around the world not just the little ones in Torres Strait. The Atoll's islands about 90km north of Bougainville have been disappearing for a long time.

There is well made 2009 Eight minute video called 'Sisters on the Planet-Cateret Island' which is well worth to look at this now 13 year old record of the people and their vanishing homeland.

Only yesterday too I was reading about the 2010 film 'There Once was an island- Te Henua e Nnoho' It is 1 hour 20mins video available on Amazon Prime on your tv. There is a trailer clip too which is quite dramatic.

Lindsay has shown us how recorded internal migration from Saibai Islet to mainland Australia has been going on at least 80 years but most likely far longer.

There are problems for such transplanting of whole communities which has staggered along for the sad inhabitants of the PNG's Atoll's region.

Some have moved to Tinputz but I guess elsewhere in their province too.

For years we have been able to read how the lives of the Manam Island's 2004 (& later eruptions) volcanic refugees & their neighbouring islanders have been impacted in trying to live in Bogia & some other sites.
Obviously in the 18 years of exile children have become adults and married and then had their own babies so that the population is continually increasing.

This has brought the displaced folk into direct confrontation with their new neighbours over finding land for gardening, health services, schools and of course under all the basic social needs is the original eco-refugees brought their unique traditions and customs.
Mismanagement or possibly corrupt practices with the many millions of the Manam Restoration funds have only exacerbated their lives and that of their now long-suffering host communities.

I think during the recent PNG general election the 'squatters' were enabled to vote in electorate of their original island rather than mainland Bogia. Goodness knows how they were registered while having two residences.

In 2008, before I led a team of divers to the Kaniet Atoll half a degree south of the Equator in Manus Province, I checked out some info on the atoll that was about 10 hours by slow ship from Lorengau.

The well-known Pacific Islands Pilot (the10th Edition published 1984 - I think) recorded that the Kaniet Atoll consists of 5 islands. Even today Wikipedia repeats the same number.

I was there in 2008 and there are only 2 as the others have disappeared. Sadly but perhaps luckily the original Micronesians, 'Hombres Blancos' of Kaniet first ever reported by Yñigo Ortiz de Rete in mid-1545 had also disappeared just before WW1.

I wonder if the now missing three islands vanished due to a sudden tsunami or rising sea levels.

With so much swampy land on the south of New Guinea Island and typical flooded fjords on parts of the north is a sign that the whole terrestrial block is tilting up in the south and the north conversely downwards.

If so, the fate of Saibai attributed to rising seas may not actually be the problem but merely a shift caused by tectonic collision.

This is a foretaste. A glimpse of the first of many shots across the bows for fossil dependent economies.

A look at recent developments concerning restitution for damage caused by carbon pollution is testament to the avalanche of cases coming down the line.

The ongoing tragedy in Pakistan, the situation building in Somalia and east Africa, courtesy of the impact of successive La Nina, negative Indian Ocean Dipole events and a reduction in distributive effect of the Antarctic circular pattern in the Great Southern Ocean.

This is the engine that drives the winds and currents and has distributed energy around the globe for millennia in a manner conducive to the rise of agriculture and the great civilisations built by mankind.

The inexorable breakdown of these oceanic and atmospheric systems courtesy of the ability of carbon dioxide to trap long wave radiation is but a foretaste of what is to come.

I doubt we will hear any complaints though because we have all been told.