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Many believe that the rise in sea level caused by global warming, truly only our descendants will feel. By nonetheless, Australian experts report that sound the alarm necessary now.
Melting ice has led to the fact that over the past seven decades part of the Solomon Islands in Melanesia disappeared. Five small completely uninhabited islets in the southwest Pacific went under water.
According to scientists, this event is not a wake-up call. only for the archipelago itself, but also for the vast majority coastal cities around the globe. University staff Queensland in the Australian state of Tasmania found that in last twenty years sea level near the Solomon Islands increased by about a centimeter per year. As you know, in different parts of the oceans the water level rises in its own way and the inhabitants The Melanesian state seems to have been among those who is less fortunate.
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Islanders are already suffering
After analyzing satellite photographs taken between 1946 to 2016, researchers determined that five islands a total area of five to twenty hectares during this temporary the span was completely absorbed by the ocean. None of the people there lived, so the event stretched over several decades turned out to be unnoticed by the world community. Nonetheless, water also covered about thirty percent of six nearby islands where people are. Since 2010, twenty-five families lost their homes because they live in houses where water is already getting close to the threshold, it became impossible.
Not a single person was affected by flooding, however, those animals who do not know how to swim and fly, died during a slow diving islands into the abyss of the Pacific Ocean. Among them were representatives of rare and endangered endemic species. However, local authorities are in no hurry to help even people, not to mention animals. Solomon Islands citizens remaining raise the level of the Pacific Ocean without shelter, have been trying for many years knock out compensation from officials, but the government is in no hurry solve the problems of their compatriots.
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Island states suffer from rising World the ocean the most. International scientists have calculated that if water will rise another two hundred millimeters, all will be left without shelter residents of the state of Tuvalu and about seventy thousand inhabitants of the Maldives. In the long run, these countries will either have to yield elements and eventually disappear, or begin to build expensive fences that will hold water.
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