Surging seas are coming for us all, warns UN chief | BBC News

The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has said that big polluters have a clear responsibility to cut emissions – or risk a worldwide catastrophe.

“The Pacific is today the most vulnerable area of the world,” he told the BBC at the Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting in Tonga. “There is an enormous injustice in relation to the Pacific and it’s the reason I am here.”

The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in the South West Pacific report says this region faces a triple whammy of an accelerating rise in the sea level, a warming of the ocean and acidification – a rise in the sea’s acidity because it’s absorbing more and more carbon dioxide.


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[Dutchfr-dd]

Ask The Netherlands for help. We have a lot of knowlidge how to manage water and how to keep people safe from it.

[nightowl]

So glad i stopped paying the British Bashing Corporations legal extortion racket financial demands.

[majorseventh]

I showed this video report to the wife, she says now its ok to get that sailboat ive always wanted.. thank you, Thank You bbc.

[trevorsutherland]

I'm 48, and this is at least the 5th or 6th thing thats supposed to "wipe us out". I'm soo very tired of the Repent Now types. Please just go away and be silent...."

[rbee]

Carbon dioxide isn't increasing - it's 0.04% of the air we breathe...it needs to increase to make plants grow better - it's pumped into poly-tunnels as there isn't enough in the air...

[jepox]

The only way to stop climate change is for these manufacturers to stop making short lived appliances and stop making one time use plastic materials and also everything is cemented. Where do yo think the water will go? Inside your house.
When our street wasn’t cemented yet whenever it rained twas all good. But when they started cementing roads and pavements our house started to get flooded. Their cannals and water ways isn’t enough for the volume of rainfall.

[RealWatch]

and before anyone says it. this does not mean waterfront property

[narrativequestion]

'because of carbon dioxide' lol

[Billy]

Surging seas are coming for us all?

Meanwhile here in the UK we are expanding off shore windfarms.

Trust the science as we say 😂

[dalecrocker]

Utter hogwash. Spread panic: make money.

[davidellis]

Rubbish the seas aren’t rising. Independent people who monitor this say that the seas rise and fall throughout the world and is normal.

[daviddoherty]

Yes that a good idea move back a bit from the sea. Coastlines will change over the years. It's very normal. Some many islands in many oceans have now been under the sea for centuries. It's just they way our planet is.

[gpadd_ow]

so if it’s such a threat you can tell Coca Cola and Pepsi to stop producing 20, 000 single use plastics a month?

[peace]

Human intervention in the processes of nature have little or nothing to do with this. These cycles have been occurring long before we could be considered as a force. Similar to the footprint of an ant on a hill.

[SquawkingSnail]

It must be heartbreaking to have to leave your ancestral home.

[joeroberts]

Does anybody actually buy this climate crap?

[BigChilla]

Guess now I got my car license the boat license coming up next surfs up brah

[KingScotto.]

Well all the beaches I've been to still look the same as they did 30 years ago 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Fan-nothing]

After a life time, ive stopped funding the Woke BBC no more license fee ever again from my family.

[mytorment]

My home and town were flooded, I lost everything and nobody
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