Rising Sea Levels
Rising sea levels are caused by global warming. When the atmosphere is heated up, the oceans are heated up too and the ocean water expands. Biggest expansion is at 4°C .
Global warming also impacts the pole regions, which are melting and have the potential to release vast quantities of fresh water into the oceans.
The International Panel on Climate Change predicted in 1995 that in the next 100 years the melting of ice from the poles could increase sea levels by 50-80
centimetres by 2100.
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Your holiday paradise 2005
Your holiday paradise 2100
New 2005 NASA research estimates that 100 million lives are potentially impacted by changes in sea levels. The impact will be felt from the the Mississippi Delta to the Maldives Islands off the coast of India, to many other low-lying coastal areas around the world.
Tuvalu in the South Pacific Ocean is the first nation to be affected by rising sea levels. No part of Tuvalu is more than 1 meter above sea level, and plans are therefore being drawn up on how to migrate the entire population of 12,000 people over the next decades.
Tuvalu - first nation to migrate
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