EASTER ISLAND, Chile - Ludovic Burns Tuki first felt the chill of climate change while diving in the waters around his home on Easter Island, locally known as Rapa Nui, a remote land mass in the South Pacific famed for its distinctive ancient stone statues.
The famed island is starting to feel the impact of climate change, from the cooler waters caused by fluctuating global temperatures to a record drought, which has drained the island’s wetlands and put its freshwater reserves at risk. The cold waters of the last few years are explained by climate studies suggesting that unlike other parts of the planet, this part of the Pacific Ocean will cool at a rate close to 0.15 degree Celsius per decade.
Chile’s government has commissioned studies with projections for the next decades that will include territories such as Easter Island for the first time.
Few trees.
Sooooo the “scientist” say water temp will increase .027 F a decade yet this guy has noticed water get cooler last 4 years. Calling BS
I mean Easter Island is kind of the poster child for what happens when you clear-cut a whole island anyway.