{"id":123,"date":"2019-08-25T05:58:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T19:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=123"},"modified":"2020-06-13T04:52:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T18:52:32","slug":"threat-to-islands-mon-26-sep-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Threat to Islands Mon 26 Sep 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Threat to islands (within the next 30 years. Prediction made 32 years ago.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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MALE, Maldives:<\/div>\n
A gradual rise in average sea level is threatening to completely cover this Indian Ocean nation of<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1196 small islands with-in the next 30 years, according to authorities.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Environmental Affairs Director, Mr Hussein Shihab, said an estimated rise of 20 to 30<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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centimetres in the next 20 to 40 years could be “catastrophic” for most of the islands, which<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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were no more than a metre above sea level.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The United Nations Environment Project was planning a study of the problem.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But the end of the Maldives and its 200,000 people could come sooner if drinking<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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water supplies dry up by 1992, as predicted.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2014 AFP<\/div>\n
https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/102074798<\/a><\/div>\n
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