Rising Sea Levels Are Exposing Bodies of Buried WWII Soldiers

Posted by | June 8, 2014 09:31 | Filed under: Planet Politics Top Stories

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Tony de Brum, the  foreign minister of the Marshall Islands, revealed at UN-sponsored climate talks in Germany that 26 skeletons of World War II soldiers had washed up on the shore because of rising sea levels. de Brum said, “There are coffins and dead people being washed away from graves— it’s that serious. Even the dead are affected.”

The Marshall Islands are particularly precarious in their perch; the nation, made up of 29 atolls, is roughly just six feet above sea level. With sea levels predicted to rise by three-to-six feet by the end of the century, the alarm is obviously growing.

In an interview earlier this year, Marshall Islands President Christopher Loeak described how the beaches where he fished as a child have vanished and how the country’s roads are being moved inland.

“The island is not only getting narrower, it is getting shorter,” he added.

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14 responses to Rising Sea Levels Are Exposing Bodies of Buried WWII Soldiers

  1. Obewon June 8th, 2014 at 09:57

    Climate deniers are now desecrating dead WW-II soldiers coffins by their willful ignorance. No further proof is needed that climate denial is Satanic! http://climate.nasa.gov/key_indicators

  2. Obewon June 8th, 2014 at 09:57

    Climate deniers are now desecrating dead WW-II soldiers coffins by their willful ignorance. No further proof is needed that climate denial is Satanic! http://climate.nasa.gov/key_indicators

  3. fahvel June 8th, 2014 at 11:09

    let it be florida, not those pretty islands.

  4. fahvel June 8th, 2014 at 11:09

    let it be florida, not those pretty islands.

  5. Dwendt44 June 8th, 2014 at 12:55

    The sea levels are rising, the land is sinking.

    snark

  6. Dwendt44 June 8th, 2014 at 12:55

    The sea levels are rising, the land is sinking.

    snark

  7. Shootist June 8th, 2014 at 14:16

    rebury them on Mt Rushmore.

    • mea_mark June 8th, 2014 at 14:43

      Is that the best you can come up with? Not a very good idea at all.

      • Shootist June 8th, 2014 at 14:46

        They will never be unearthed by rising water again.

        • mea_mark June 8th, 2014 at 14:58

          I don’t suppose the practicality of things figured into that anywhere did it?

  8. Shootist June 8th, 2014 at 14:16

    rebury them on Mt Rushmore.

    • mea_mark June 8th, 2014 at 14:43

      Is that the best you can come up with? Not a very good idea at all.

      • Shootist June 8th, 2014 at 14:46

        They will never be unearthed by rising water again.

        • mea_mark June 8th, 2014 at 14:58

          I don’t suppose the practicality of things figured into that anywhere did it?

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