Entire nation of Kiribati to be relocated over rising sea level threat, world's first climate-induced migration of modern times

So sad to see this, one of the most beautiful places on Earth ..

No cars no tourists no newspapers etc, heaven on Earth ..




Last Edited by Rain-Man on 03/08/2012 04:48 PM

Kiribati

Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. The permanent population is just over 100,000 (2011),[5] and the island nation is composed of 32 atolls and one raised coral island, dispersed over 3.5 million square kilometres, (1,351,000 square miles) straddling the equator, and bordering the International Date Line at its easternmost point.

Kiribati maintains cordial relations with most countries and has close relations with its Pacific neighbours, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, which provide the majority of the country's foreign aid. Taiwan and Japan also have specified-period licences to fish in Kiribati's waters.

As one of the world's most vulnerable nations in terms of the effects of climate change, Kiribati has been an active participant in international diplomatic efforts relating to climate change, most importantly the UNFCCC conferences of the parties (COP). Kiribati is a member of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), an intergovernmental organization of low-lying coastal and small Island countries. Established in 1990, the main purpose of the alliance is to consolidate the voices of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to address global warming. AOSIS has been very active from its inception, putting forward the first draft text in the Kyoto Protocol negotiations as early as 1994.

In 2012 the government began negotiating with Fiji to buy land in to which it could move some of its population due to rising sea levels

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Al Gore was right!

neat...

...someday manhatten

Sad for the 113,000 people who will have to leave it.

SOMEONE COMMENTED

"Probably the Pacific [tectonic] Plate sinking slightly. This does happen and is nothing to do with global warming : all the Guardian readers in the world cannot prevent it.

How about relocating all Kiribati inhabitants to the UK and sending all Guardian readers to the Pacific? They would have an idyllic life in a tropical paradise which would only become worse as they slowly realise that sea levels are not rising and they are stuck there for ever"

Couldnt have said it better

really sure it has happen before...??

yeah tyranosaurus drived humvee all over the focking planet, they fucking heated it up!

who says it s climate induced and not something natural happening every dozen thousand years? part of some great cycle?

Tarawa does have cars and the locals treat the lagoon as their personal toilet. It's damn nasty and you would never eat a clam out of those waters if you valued your life.

I have a feeling the move is less to do with climate change and more to do with the unsustainable population and man made changes. Check this out, Bikeman Island is one of two islands that has disappeard:
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Let's have something clear:

- even if all the island nations of the planet are totally covered by the rising sea


- even if all the ice of Greenland melts, and the Statue of Liverty in NYC gets water by the waist.


Even if that happens, the global warming deniers will keep denying it.

Because they are paid shills of the Oil Industry, and denying the facts is their job.

Scientists: ie. People who know what they're talking about.

Our US coastline, as well as those of the rest of the world, used to extend out much farther than they do today during the past Ice Age. When the climate changed, this land was recovered with water.
Yes, I believe in climate change-it's happened for billions of years- and yes, I think Al Gore is full if crap for placing a great deal of the blame on humans.

I do feel bad for the people of Kiribati. It can't be easy to have to leave your homeland.

Last Edited by abrock on 03/08/2012 06:30 PM

Indeed!

'world's first climate-induced migration of modern times'
uhm, no.

You need to do your part then and pay your taxes and quit farting

You freking funny. When I was in the first grade almost 30 years ago I told my teacher carbon dating wasn't at all as accurate as everyone believed. I knew this because of radioactive decay isn't constant due to the nature of the solar system. It's a constant change, not a constant. Variable's will always exist that you don't know about. Well she told me, "You think your smarter than those scientist", my answer was "YES!".

And guess who was right?



Scientist speculate. Not many facts can be derived from science.

So where else are the levels rising, or is it just here? It would be everywhere otherwise.

Wow...those poor people. It's news like this that brings people together. My 1 acre property seems huge now. Must be very emotional.

Someone's lying. I live next to the Atlantic Ocean in Florida. There are old pylons in the Indian River (lagoon with tidal access to Atlantic Ocean) that were driven into the ground in the early 1960's. There are concrete structures in the water that were there in the 1950's. The water line is at the same place now as it was when I first saw it in 1978.

Maybe, just maybe, the land in the South Pacific islands is sinking.

first grade?

Some hotel will probably buy it up cheap and build a luxury resort for billionaires.

they held parliament in scuba gear not long ago.

The climate is always changing. We just have to take a lesson from the Vikings when they lived in Greenland. The climate changed for the colder. They froze and many died before they left. We just have to learn to roll with the punches that changing climates throw at us.

Google Earth. Fly over the shorelines and look for yourself.

Probably false, I've caught "them" lying over erosion and not level change..probably nothing and if anything lies..as usual. They are getting out of hand with this cause no one listens to them no except the uneducated,

Unfortunately this is a cyclical event with many of those islands regardless of climate change. What is happening are the forces that shaped the land masses all over the world as we see it today. In time again the islands will rise as they did before and flourish again.

This has nothing to do with climate change. It just happens to be happening in our lifetime to witness it.

The world is ever-changing and has been for millions of years, and it will continue no matter what man does.

Just how I see it.

Unfortunately many have bought into the lies. What must be understood is the deniers argument is political and not scientific. Sure there are some scientific arguments against man made global warming but the vast majority of evidence supports it's theory.
They have been told that it is a socialist plot to redistribute wealth in the name of environmental preservation. That it is somehow un-American, even communist and they eat it up. Of course the only wealth that would be redistributed is that of the oil companies. Lol. It is much easier to dismiss it as some liberal plot to undermine our freedoms than to actualy admitt that we do effect our planet and delicate ecosystem that supports life as we know it and then take responsibility for our actions. That's heavy stuff. It threatens our comfy lifestyles that we loooove sooo much. Of course it is met with such hostility , it is a threat to our core identity as Americans.
So the oil industry buys a couple of scientists and sympathetic news agencies to promote they're agenda and the kiddies eat it up like candy as the petrol giants laugh all the way to the bank.