ACM
"Torres Strait Islanders have warned Prime Minister Julia Gillard they could become Australia’s first climate change refugees if she continues to ignore the effects of rising sea levels in the area. .......However, the Bureau of Meteorology National Tide Centre database for Darwin tells a rather less urgent picture (as usual): A fairly gentle 3.6 mm/year, in line with global sea level rises. At that rate it would take 277 years to rise one metre… "
Sweet irony: Pacific islands "growing, not sinking"
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