1 OCTOBER 2013
If ocean levels rise by as much asthree feet by the end of the century, as predicted by the Fifth IPCC Assessment report released last week, the Pacific island nation of Kiribati — composed of 32 atolls — would mostly disappear.
The potential impacts on the 100,000 citizens of Kiribati, not to mention the millions of others living in low-lying island nations and coastal areas, of this climate change-induced forced exodus are already playing out in New Zealand where a Kiribati man is trying to convince the court that he’s a climate refugee.
Click here to read more: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/10/01/2707601/island-nation-climate-refugee/
Source: Climate Progress