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Climate change and low-lying Pacific islands: a plain person's guide to global warming, sea-level rise, and the threat to Pacific Islands (pdf 520kb)

This paper provides a sea level rise analysis and climate change forecasts.

It provides simple and credible explanations in response to the three underlying questions which skeptics and everyday people are preoccupied:
- Is global warming contributing to the rate of sea-level rise?
- Why do the rates of sea-level rise vary from place to place? and
- What is the threat to low-lying islands?

This paper also suggests that scientists and those charged with the responsibility for developing and implementing practical strategies to deal with climate change, need to look closer at the current short and medium term trends and the extremes.

 

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