Some Pacific Islands are "sinking" because of global warming on the order of 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit, which is being attributed to polar ice caps melting due to carbon emissions. Can this totally undeserved homelessness being experienced by citizens whose origins and homelands are the Pacific Islands not be attributed to a natural process, i.e., Earth is simply witnessing the last vestiges, the absolute end, of the Ice Age when Earth was half covered for millions of years by ice?
We think those who are consuming more fossil-fuel are in total responsible for the impacts of climate change humanity is facing. In that, the worse hit are the atolls of the pacific, some of them are already under sea now.
Because they are drowning due to sea level rise!
They scream for help!
That's the question Enele Sopoaga, the prime minister of the tiny Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu, asked fellow world leaders at the United Nations climate summit in Lima, Peru, in December.
It's a question that leaders of Pacific Island states have been asking for decades. As a warming climate drives sea levels upward, low-lying island nations face an uncertain future—or no future at all, say these leaders, who warn of their nations' imminent disappearance.
Officials in Tuvalu, 600 miles (965 kilometers) north of Fiji, have been some of the most vocal critics of the world's large greenhouse gas emitters—industrialized nations such as the United States and China—which they accuse of not doing enough to curb emissions, contributing to the melting of ice sheets and rising seas.