Marshall Islands claims ‘climate catastrophe’ in the Pacific will soon ‘wipe it off the map’

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/01/marshall-islands-claims-climate-catastrophe-in-the-pacific-will-soon-wipe-it-off-the-map/




The Marshall Islands has warned of a Pacific “climate catastrophe” that will wipe it off the map without decisive action on global warming, saying the next 12 months are critical.

Tony de Brum, minister in assistance to the Marshall Islands’ president, is in Australia making the case for a major climate declaration at the 16-member Pacific Islands Forum it will host in September which he has insisted US Secretary of State John Kerry must attend.

De Brum hopes the so-called Majuro Declaration can be presented to the United Nations General Assembly to help renew global efforts on emissions reduction as the Pacific region confronts rising seas and growing numbers of so-called climate refugees.

“Our hosting of the forum comes at the cusp of the most important geopolitical period for the region since World War II,” de Brum told reporters at a briefing in Sydney Thursday, adding the next 12 months “are critical to addressing climate change”.

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1. Too late

[GliderGuider]

2. That's how I read the data too.

Too bad about yer ancestral home. Nothin' personal, y'unnerstan, it's jus bidness..

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3. The demand for empathy

already exceeds the supply and it's still early days.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. Interesting, I didn't know that there are different rates of rise around the ocean.

Off the coast of the PacNW, we haven't had any rise in 30 years, but the western Pacific has.
I'm curious how that works... Specific gravity of water responding to ocean temps in different places? Is the ocean floor here in the PacNW sinking? (It is a subduction zone...)

[mbperrin]

5. Stop panicking! It's not even up to your shoulders yet!

Nope, not funny at all, but very likely too late.

This is how the rest of us are going to get caught, too - flatfooted and surprised. I can hear it now.

"Dang, looks like there mighta been somethin' to that climate change crap after all!"

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6. Marshall Islands, you should have known your days were numbered, ...

when the US blew up more than 60 nuclear bombs on the islands to test their efficiency. It has been said, the Marshall Islands are the most contaminated land in the world. And now, someone worries climate change might sink them. I think concern for the islands passed a while ago. Just sayin'.