Marshall Islands foreign minister: ‘We are facing a climate disaster’

Marshall Islands foreign minister: ‘We are facing a climate disaster’

9 MARCH 2014

This is the most serious king tide we have seen in the Marshall Islands for some 30 years, and the third flooding of Majuro atoll, our capital, in the last year alone. 

There is no question that these events are increasing in their seriousness and regularity, consistent with the clear scientific information that sea levels are rising faster in the Central-West Pacific than nearly anywhere else in the world.

 

Click here to read more: http://www.rtcc.org/2014/03/07/marshall-islands-foreign-minister-we-are-facing-a-climate-disaster/#sthash.qEHcTwNf.dpuf

Source: Responding to Climate Change

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