A Commonwealth Expert Group set up to look at climate change estimated there was a 90 per cent certainty …. that sea levels would rise by between one and four metres by the year 2030.
Global warming and sea level rises would continue for decades, perhaps centuries. There was a prospect of wide- spread, perhaps catastrophic flooding across large areas of Egypt, India, China, the United States, Britain and Holland, and atolls in the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Who would house the displaced populations of low lying areas like the Maldives, a chain of 1200 islands barely above sea level?
- Canberra Times via The Guardian, January 26, 1989
26 Jan 1989 – Call for anti-greenhouse action – Trove
Had we listened to the experts thirty years ago, we could have prevented this tragic scene unfolding today in the Maldives.
26 Sep 1988 – Threat to islands
via The Deplorable Climate Science Blog
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