The missing island country - Kiribati Who will become the world’s first climate change refugee? According to the GLOBAL AND MAIL, A native of Kiribati – a small island state in the South Pacific – Mr. Teitiota went to New Zealand several years ago as a legal guest worker, but he stayed on and his visa expired. He has now asked the New Zealand government to refrain from sending him and his family back to Kiribati, saying sea level rise is making his home island uninhabitable. The science is increasingly conclusive that human-induced climate change is causing sea levels to rise. Not by much; at present only a couple millimeters per year on average, but for atoll nations like Kiribati where the land is no more than a meter or two above the sea, even that rate of change is problematic.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 13:39:42 +0000
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