Posted on 12/10/2015 9:58:30 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Majuro (Marshall Islands) (AFP) - Almost 70 years ago, the people of Bikini Atoll left their homes to allow US nuclear testing, now the Pacific islanders' descendants say they must move again -- because climate change has rendered their new home uninhabitable.
Many of those Bikinians moved to Kili Island, which is 800 kilometres (500 miles) away but still part of the Marshall Islands archipelago.
The tiny stretch of land, less than one square kilometre in size, now home to almost 1,000 people, is around two metres (seven foot) above sea level, making it vulnerable to rising seas blamed on man-made global warming.
Residents say it is becoming increasingly uninhabitable; crops fail due to seawater creeping up into the soil and drinking water, while flooding and storms are increasing in frequency, regularly battering homes and villages.
When waves inundated Kili earlier this year, residents "felt as though they would all be taken out to the sea," local councillor Lani Kramer told AFP.
She said: "(People) noticed the water coming inland and thought it was strange. Within one hour, the water was up to their waists. People were terrified. Some ran to the church as it's on higher ground and camped there until the water slowly went down."
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What horsesh**. They are on a sand bar in the ocean for cripes sake.
I ain’t hear’d nuttin from Holland....
Commie libs still pimping global cooling/global warming/climate change.
If there are 1000 people on that island, there must be 20 people per house.
The Marshall islands are atoll remnants of old volcano’s, they have been sinking 2-12 inches annually since the US took over in WWII, this is climate change spin to the max
Climate change can be localized because of man’s sins in a community?
It’s bad enough that America nuked their homes, now we climate changed them!
That IS tiny.
I'm stunned that 1000 people WANTED to live there.
A spring rain would probably flood the entire place.
So they will become climate change refugees? As long as they’re not muslim, bring em on.
Let’s be compassionate. We can afford to send them some life jackets.
There is a simple solution to this problem. Find one volcano. Find one virgin. Shake and mix. Viola!
You can see why it was previously uninhabited.
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