Thursday, December 06, 2007

Climate Refugees

As the world tries to hammer out a future plan to tackle climate change, tiny islands say it is too late -- their homes and histories are disappearing under the rising sea.
Climate experts say that as global warming heats the Earth up, glaciers and polar ice caps will melt and sea waters will expand, sending oceans rising and islanders fleeing. The global challenge to rescue the populations of these tiny nations will dominate human resources in the very near future; armed forces meant for defense will become search and rescue apparatuses.
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