Sea rise worries Pacific nations
NZPA-Reuter Majuro A tiny Pacific nation that could disappear if sea levels rise as a result of the “greenhouse effect” has urged industrial countries to stop contaminating the atmosphere. The Marshall Islands President, Amata Kabua, addressing the opening of a meeting on how to face the greenhouse effect, said pollution threatened the future of his and other island nations. The United Nations Environment Programme and the South Pacific Commission are co-sponsoring the meeting in the Marshall Islands, a group of lowlying coral atolls which rise little more than one metre above sea level. “It is truly frightening to think that our ocean will turn against us,” Mr Kabua told the conference of more than 50 government officials and scientists -from Pacific nations including Australia and New Zealand. “It is the larger industralised nations that have spewed out these gases for the past 200 years and continue to do so at an ever increasing rate,” he said.
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