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🇫🇯 Fiji
🇲🇭 The Marshall Islands
🇰🇮 Kiribati
🇳🇷 Nauru
🇹🇴 Tonga
🇫🇲 Micronesia
🇸🇧 The Solomon Islands
🇻🇺 Vanuatu
🇹🇱 Timor Leste

are set to be virtually uninhabitable by 2029 due to climate shocks.
Pacific island nations - including Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Timor Leste and Tonga - demand major emitters take action.

'As early as 2030...their lands could become uninhabitable'.

Or earlier...sciencealert.com/pacific-island…
This study focused on Roi-Namur Island (Marshall Islands):

Under a severe scenario (high emissions with the collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet, causing sea levels to rise drastically and rapidly) Roi-Namur could be without potable water *before* 2030. ⚠️
psmag.com/environment/at…
'the authors warned that their findings also apply to islands all over the world including the Maldives, Seychelles and parts of Hawaii' independent.co.uk/environment/is…
Low-lying Vanuatu is considering suing fossil fuel companies and industrialized countries that use them for their role in creating catastrophic climate change.

“My government is now exploring all avenues to utilize the judicial system.."

#ClimateJustice

reuters.com/article/us-van…
Low lying coastal communities especially vulnerable to threats:

-sea-level rise
-inundation of tides
-increased storm surge intensity
-coastal erosion

Extreme, sudden weather events (eg cyclones) can force communities to move, particularly in the tropics.theconversation.com/climate-change…
'Also.. the Caroline Islands, Cook Islands, Gilbert Islands, Line Islands, Society Islands, Spratly Islands, Maldives, Seychelles, and Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.'

Some islands 'will reach these tipping points sooner than described here'. ⚠️

advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/4/ea…
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Ben See
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Insect apocalypse:

1. 98% loss in some regions
2. entomologists: crisis is global
3. abundance/biodiversity decline
4. other arthropods vanishing too
5. link to bird, lizard, frog declines
6. fears for food chain
7. culprit: habitat destruction
8. also pesticides, climate change
'compelling evidence of a major problem — large-scale declines in the numbers and diversity of insects and other jointed invertebrates known as arthropods'

'insect declines are real, and they’re every bit as severe as had been feared'nature.com/articles/d4158…
The calamity appears to be across most insect families and happening around the world:

On a scale of 0 to 10, researchers on six continents rated the severity of the insect abundance crisis as either 8/10, 9/10 or 10/10.
news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-gr…
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Ben See
@ClimateBen
Why won't state-corporate media put 2035 or 2040 in the headlines for articles on sea level rise?

Bangkok, for example, is set to be 40% underwater by 2030 according to the World Bank.

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
'A World Bank study predicted that 40 percent of the Thai capital may be submerged by 2030.'

Thailand's 2015 National Reform Council report predicted that Bangkok risks being submerged as early as the 2020s:

aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/t…
By 2060, about 1.4 billion people could be climate change refugees due to rising ocean levels. Those who once lived on coastlines will face displacement and resettlement bottlenecks as they seek habitable places inland. news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/0…
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Ben See
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Remember:

🇹🇭 Bangkok
🇵🇭 Manila
🇮🇳 Mumbai
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City
🇮🇩 Jakarta
🇪🇬 Alexandria
🇫🇯 Fiji
🇧🇩 Chittagong
🇰🇮 Kiribati
🇮🇶 Basrah
🇲🇻 The Maldives
🇨🇦 Vancouver
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Skegness
🇸🇨 Seychelles
🇫🇷 La Rochelle
🇮🇩 Surabaya
🇬🇾 Georgetown
🇳🇱 Amsterdam
🇨🇳 Shanghai

All underwater by 2035.
1. Sea level rise is accelerating and happening faster than expected.

James Hansen says we could hit 5m within decades.

Nobody knows for sure how quickly it will progress, but it will hit hard sooner rather than later.

Explore this thread for details: 👇
2. A key question: will these places be underwater numerous times during a given year, or permanently from 2035?

See this interactive map to get a sense of sea level rise and flooding for each city/island nation by 2030 and 2040:
coastal.climatecentral.org/map/8/100.5836…
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Thread: #India announces $12 million grant for Pacific Island states - India joins #Australia in countering #Chinese influence there 👍 economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-…
To continue High-Level engagement, PM extended an invitation to all the leaders for the 3rd FIPIC Summit to be held in Port Moresby in first half of 2020.
The India-Pacific Islands Developing States (PSIDS) Leaders’ meeting was held on 24th September in New York on the sidelines of the 74th UN General Assembly in what would feed into Delhi’s Indo-Pacific strategy.
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Kate Mackenzie
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A short thread about climate change, migration and sovereignty.
In December, @adam_tooze - an economic historian at Columbia Uni whose book "Crashed" about the financial crisis is widely acclaimed - wrote a powerful essay in @ForeignPolicy about climate change & sovereignty in the 21st century. foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/20/ris…
@adam_tooze @ForeignPolicy I urge you to read this essay. Hard to summarise, but it raises many troubling and complex questions about what it will mean when some nations "cease to be viable as territorial states". And not just when that happens, but the *realisation* of that takes hold.
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Heba Aly
@HebaJournalist
My take-aways from one of the first formal gatherings of climate scientists and humanitarians in Geneva, in the wake of the @IPCC_CH report highlighting the human impacts of 2˚ of global warming. #StepUp2018 #SR15 #Talanoa4Ambition #ClimateRedi @UNFCCC 0/15
1/ Forget about coral reefs & polar bears. The difference between 1.5˚ and 2˚of warming is 60 million more people exposed to severe drought; millions more potentially exposed to flooding, 23% more of the world's population exposed to extreme heat. This stuff is real.
2/ For small-island states at risk of being wiped off the map, limiting warming to 1.5˚ was already "the ultimate compromise". "We knew that 1˚ would jeopardize our ability to live on these islands,” a Marshall Islands rep said. “Anything beyond 1.5 is simply uninhabitable.”
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anja kanngieser
@geotransversals
this is a long thread on #nauru, where i spent last week. nauru is currently most visible as a site for australia’s offshore detention of asylum seekers and refugees. it is also the location of a longstanding #phosphate mine which covers over 2/3 of the island 1/22
#nauru is experiencing considerable #climatechange. im going to outline some of the social-environmental stresses i observed that nauruans, refugees and asylum seekers are facing, and why we need to talk about #colonialism and #environmental racism for #climatejustice 2/22
#nauru is a beautiful island. its main resource is #phosphate. germany colonised nauru in the late 1800s and in the early 1900s the british found phosphate and started to exploit it for fertiliser and munitions with australia and nz, who became nauru’s trustees in the 1920s 3/22
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@JolyonMaugham
If you want to know what happens to populations living in austerity who trade with the US on WTO terms, take a look at Tonga. THREAD
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