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Earth Policy Institute: Rising Seas and Powerful Storms Threaten Global Security
Posted on October 13, 2008
By Janet Larsenhttp://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2008/Update76.htmStanding before the United Nations General Assembly in October 1987, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives, made an appeal representing an endangered nation. That year for the first time, unusual high waves in the Indian Ocean inundated a quarter of the urban area on the capital island of Male', flooded farms, and washed away reclaimed land. Gayoom cited scientific evidence that human activities were releasing greenhouse gases that warm the planet, ultimately raising global sea level as glaciers melt and ...
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