Rising Seas and Powerful Storms Threaten Global Security

• Main Author: Janet Larsen
• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: Earth Policy Institute 2008
• Subjects: Energy and Environment; Humanitarian and Disaster Relief; Antarctic; Beck; Canada; Greenland; Indian; New Zealand; Antarc*; glacier*
• Online Access: https://issuelab.org/permalink/resource/1327

Standing before the United Nations General Assembly in October 1987, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives, made an appeal representing "an endangered nation." That year for the first time, "unusual high waves" in the Indian Ocean inundated a quarter of the urban area o...