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'Climate refugee' claim rejected
2014-05-01 08:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: Stopping climate change damage in the Pacific is near impossible, yet countries remain reluctant to pick up the tab, or accept climate change refugees. The case of Iaone Teitiota from Kiribati highlights the issue. The greatest security threat to the Western Pacific is not military coups, civil war or corruption, according to the United State's top military official in the region, Admiral Samuel J Locklear III. In a recent newspaper interview he cited global warming - resulting in rising sea levels...
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