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  • Dr. John Holdren, president of American Association for the Advancement of Science, predicts a possible 4-meter sea level rise by end of the century,16 and Dr. James Hansen, NASA’s head of Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has stated the likelihood of a 5-meter sea level rise by end of the century.17 (2006, 2007, respectively.)
  • A sea level rise of even 1 meter would result in over 100 million climate refugees and endanger major cities like London, Cairo, Bangkok, Venice, New York, and Shanghai.18
  • Examples of countries affected by sea level rise:

    • Âu Lạc (Vietnam). At the nation’s rice bowl region, the Mekong Delta, ocean salt water has encroached an unprecedented 60 kilometers up-river in 2010, threatening 100,000 hectares of rice.19
    • Thailand. Seawater is expected to reach Bangkok’s ground level in 25 years. 20(GEodetic Earth Observation Technologies for Thailand: Environmental Change Detection and Investigation, 2010)
    • Egypt. More than 58 meters of coastline have vanished every year since 1989 in Rasheed.21 (Omran Frihy of the Coastal Research Institute, 2010)

  • Sea level rise caused at least 18 island nations to completely disappear while many more coastal areas are continually threatened.22 More than 40 other island nations are at risk from rising sea levels.23
  • Sea level rise threatens half of the world's population living within 200 kilometers of a coastline. Already, low-lying coastal regions and deltas see effects: 17 million in Bangladesh have fled their homes, mainly because of coastal erosion. Groundwater sources are contaminated by saltwater in Israel and Thailand, small island states in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Caribbean Sea, and in some of the world's major deltas, such as the Yangtze Delta and Mekong Delta.24

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Guyana spends scarce resources to fend off rising seas. - 24 Dec 2010
Rising sea levels may engulf Indonesian islands. - 3 Dec 2010
Egypt faces rising sea levels. - 24 Nov 2011
Groundwater over-pumping linked to sea level rise. - 20 Nov 2010
Rising sea level erodes Solomon Islands food security. - 16 Nov 2010
Dr. John Church: Sounding the Sea-Level Rise Alarm Play
Warming water in deep Antarctic Ocean contributing to sea-level rise - 13 Oct 2010
Liberia’s Atlantic coast is eroding quickly - 18 Sep 2010
Rising waters endanger indigenous Venezuelan culture - 12 Sep 2010
Extinction expert paints bleak picture of flooded Earth due to rising seas -31 Jul 2010
Panamanian island dwellers prepare to leave ancestral homes - 24 Jul 2010
Nigeria loses islands to the sea. - 11 May 2010
Climate change now forecast to bring much higher sea level impact. - 28 Apr 2010
Glaciologist warns of drastic ice melt. - 11 Apr 2010
Rising sea claims previously disputed island. - 6 Apr 2010
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Bangladesh confronts the tragic effects of climate change - 5 Sep 2009
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Antarctic glacier melting more rapidly than ever - 3 Sep 2009
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Formosa (Taiwan) warned of rising sea levels - 8 Sep 2009
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Antarctic shows more warning signs of climate change - 6 July 2009
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At current carbon dioxide levels, seas could still rise 25 meters - 03 Jul 2009
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'Catastrophic' One-Metre Sea Rise Predicted - 12 Mar 2009
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Outlying islands may disappear - 4 Mar 2009
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British called to preparedness in face of flood risks.- 22 Dec 2008
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Greenland ice sheet melt could be sooner than expected. - 18 Dec 2008
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Global warming rise sea level, 43 islands countries for fear of being submerged - 11 Dec 2008
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Accelerated Melting Of Continental Icepacks Is Major Reason For Rise In Sea Level Between 2003 And 2008 - 7 Dec 2008
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24 Indonesia’s islands have already disappeared beneath the ocean
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Floods under Antarctic ice speed glaciers into sea: study - 18 Nov 2008
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MIT professor bombards engineers with evidence of climate change - 11 Nov 2008
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UN report: Few coastal cities to be spared by climate change - 31 Oct 2008
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Rising sea could flood Over 700,000 Australian homes - 22 Oct 2008
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Rising sea threat to Cocos Islands - 21 Oct 2008
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Fiji travel destination to be soon submerged. - 19 Oct 2008
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Greenland glacier rapidly melting. - 17 Oct 2008
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Thirty-year study reveals US Gulf bays at risk of severe flooding. - 7 Oct 2008
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Climate change creates environmental refugees in the Sundarbans. - 16 Sep 2008
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Sea-level rise could double or triple current expectations. - 3 Sep 2008
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Rising sea levels threaten thousands on a south China island. 1 Sep 2008
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Satellite images show melting of two of Greenland’s largest glaciers. - 28 Aug 2008
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Environment agency warns of Britain’s shrinking coastline. - 25 Aug 2008
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Antarctic climate is directly affected by tropical changes. - 15 Aug 2008
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Sea warming rate is much faster than expected. - 29 Jun 2008
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New Zealand assists Kiribati island people in coping with climate change. - 11 Jun 2008
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Rising sea-levels will have a dramatic effect on US coastal habitat. - 26 May 2008
 
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Rise in sea level changing Gujarat’s contours. - 14 Nov 2008
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World's First Climate Change Refugees to Arrive in Bougainville - 9 Nov 2008
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Sinking islands in the South Pacific. - 3 Jun 2008
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Sea level rise may be higher than previously predicted. -11 May 2008
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