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Rising Seas Alarm Island States
****Asia-Pacific island nations are pressing for international action to check global warming and the resulting sea-level rise which threaten to wipe them off the map.
THE Third World's island nations art- waking up to the dangers posed by rising sea-levels due to global warming, and want urgent action before they literally vanish beneath the waves.
Tiny island nations of the South Pacific like the Marsluill Islands. Kiribati and Tuvalu and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean arc the most concerned. It sea levels rise by one metre, many of them would be wiped off the map
Scientists have found that the world's average tempera ture has been rising at an ui cclcrating rate in recent decades, apparently caused by the rising concentrations of greenhouse gases' like carbon dioxide and methane which are largely generated by the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.
International climate experts attending the Asia Pacific climate change conference here in late November urged a global strategy to deal with the root causes of global warming before it is too late.
Global warming and what to do about It was also at five top of the agenda of a meeting of the 15-natk>n South Pacific Porum in August.
Leaders of these island states met with officials from the United Slates. Canada. Europe and Japan to press for
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global action to slow down I he rise in the planeTs temperature.
Public awareness of the threats posed by climate change In the Asia-Pacific Is greatest in small Island states like the Philippines.
The Philippines, an archipelagic country of over 7.100 islands lying between l he South China Sea and the Pac tile Ocean, is Hkmh waking up to the perils of global warming.
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Scenarios for th< Philippines arc not as cataclysmic. Bui the possible impuct of rising sea levels arc still severe.
According to Solis, the sea level around the Philippines has risen by nearly 30 ems over the past 40 years. The change is occurring at an ac-eelcrating rate, so the sea level may rise at an even faster rate In the decades to come." he said.
face some added risks. Hie land mass of such countries is divided among many Islands giving them long coastlines and thus exposing an even larger percentage of their land to danger.
Moreover, the Philippines directly lies In the path of the Western Pacific's typhoons, which are expected to become more numerous anti viok-jM as global temperatures rise.
International experts ul the conference stressed that while
th« prospect of the sea level rising rapidly over the next few decades.
The head of Manilas national mapping agency, Jose Soils, told u Senate hearing last week that many parts of the country, including fertile farm lands and low-lying sections of the capital city, would be disappear under water If the sea level keeps rising.
"We re at the top of the list. ' said Mclcnclo Magno of Ilie Philippines' National Academy of Science, referring to countries at risk due to environmental changes tied up
Aside from the threat of In undation. experts say rising ouun levels will push suit water lens of kilometers furihi r Inland, contaminating ground water, turning farmland Into saline deserts.
Even continental nations arc not spared such threats Some studies show that a one-meter rise in ocean levels would displace anywhere from 40 to 80 per cent of Bangladesh's over 100 million people and flood China's four rlclK-st low-lying plains.
But archipelagic states like the Philippines and Indonesia
several computer models to predict changes in global weather liavc been developed, there Is as yet very little research Into how regional weather patterns will be affected by global warming.
Initial research tn Australia suggest tliat tropical monsoons will become stronger and bring more rainfall as global warning proceeds, said Aus Indian scientist Dr Brian Frank Ryan 4
But he added 1 lie re was not enough data to say mu< h be yontl that
Nor was there sufficient Information to predict how tropical cyclone^ will behave in the future.
Research Into the regional and country-by-cuunUy Impact of global- warming is vital, said Narashiman Sundararaman. secretary of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCCC|.
Sinai) South Pacific island slates are getting help from the United Nations Deve-opment Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to cope with future sea-k-vcl rise.
Sundararaman said there is crowing international recognition that industrialised nations gen< rate the bulk of the greenhouse gases causing . bai warming and the den lopmg countries hav^ neither the knowhow nor the financial resources to acquire the cent ogy friendly technokrgies needed Io aven further rises in the global temperature.
Appeals for equity and fairness will not be enough, says Sundararaman: "W1i.il we need arc hard data, hard far ts."
TIMM