Skeptics mislead on Maldives climate resilience, sea level rise

📆 2024-06-29 오전 1:11:00
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Social media posts cite research showing the size of many islands in the Maldives remains stable to claim the threat of global warming is exaggerated. This is misleading; experts say the Indian Ocean country faces risks from rising tides, including severe coastal erosion and frequent flooding tied to human-induced climate change.

This aerial picture taken on November 15, 2023, shows the Thilafushi Island in the Maldives

"The fact that sea level is rising, with erosion taking away sand from the coastal area does result in the loss of land area in some islands" of the Maldives, he said., a professor of coastal geography at La Rochelle University in France and lead author of a United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chapter on small islands

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