Submerged Islands - Climate Refugees Fleeing

25 Million People Uprooted In 2007 Due To The Rising Seas . . .

As the climate continues to warm, entire islands are sinking below rising waters caused from melting glaciers. Mr. Achim Steiner - United Nations Under Secretary General & U.N. Environment Programme Executive Director. Indeed there are many island nations who are doomed already now, condemned if you want to disappear. Therefore there is no question that we have to act. And that is just the beginning of the visible impact of climate change. The invisible part, the bits that we have not necessarily understood that are happening around us are also on their way.

At Least 18 Islands Submerged Around The World:

• Lohachara, India 10,000 residents
• Bedford, Kabasgadi and Suparibhanga islands near India 6,000 families
• Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, USA 13 islands
• Kiribati 3 atolls
• Half of Bangladeshs Bhola Island permanently flooded 500,000

Islands Sinking Or At Risk From Rising Sea Levels - Over 40 Nations

There may be more islands, either uninhabited and/or not reported, that have submerged or are sinking due to climate change:

* Tuvalu 12,000 residents with no more fresh drinking water and vegetable plots have washed away
* Ghoramara near India 2/3 submerged as of 2006 with 7,000 residents already relocated
* Neighboring island of Sagar 250,000 residents also threatened
* Some 50 other islands jeopardized in the India-Bangladesh Sundarbans, with a population of 2 million
* Kutubdia in southeastern Bangladesh lost over 200,000 residents, with remaining 150,000 likely soon to depart
* Maldives 369,000 residents in the Indian Ocean, whose president wants to relocate the entire country
* Marshall Islands 60,000 residents
* Kiribati 107,800 residents, approximately 30 islands submerging
* Tonga 116,900 residents
* Vanuatu 212,000 residents, some of whom have already been evacuated and coastal villages relocated
* Solomon Islands 566,800 residents
* Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea 2,500 residents whose land no longer supports agriculture
* Shishmaref in Alaska, USA 600 residents
* Kivalini in Alaska, USA 400 residents
* Over 2,000 other islands in Indonesia
* Dubai 1.2 million residents in the United Arab Emirates considered at risk

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