Is maldives shrinking. Maldives is now the poster child for the consequences of climate change. Today maldives desperately advocates the need to curb global warming as they know that their fate now lies in the hands of other nations. Like several other south asian and oceanic archipelagos the maldivess topography suffers from a lethal combination of high surface erosion and rising sea levels.
If the trend continues the maldives will be. The earth is currently undergoing a climate change of historic proportion with sea levels rising noticeably from the melting of glaciers and icebergs. The maldives is rapidly sinking and could be gone in the next 80 years the pacific islands contain some of the famous idyllic holiday destinations chosen by britons for sun and luxury they could.
The highest point in the country is only two feet above sea level and 80 of the countrys land is less than three feet below sea level. Global warming will almost certainly lead to the demise of these islands which are predicted to submerge in thirty years time. This is alarming news for the low lying islands of maldives of which most of the islands are less than a metre above sea level.
The sea level actually changes every minute and completes a cycle every 24 hours within the cycle there is a high tide and a low ride. Disappearing into the rising sea it will become the first country having to relocate all its population as refugees due to global climate change. Despite what many climatologists report concerning rising sea levels research conducted by new zealand scientists on tavalus nine atolls and 101 reef islands between 1971 and 2014 indicates that.
The former stems from the islands soft soils but most scientists agree that the latter is a direct consequence of global warming.
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