What is actually happening is that Global Warming is melting the ice at the poles of the Earth which makes the sea levels rise and in turn the islands appear to be sinking but actually the sea levels are rising.
Locations include Kiribati, the Samoas, Hawai'i, the atolls of Micronesia including the Marshall Islands, ...
A famous example of an island group threatened to disappear because of rising water levels due to global warming are the Maledives as their President Nasheed held the world's first underwater cabinet meeting on October 17, 2009 to raise awareness of threats from climate change to low-lying nations such theirs.
** Another Answer: I'm going to throw this out but I'm willing to bet that there are a number of people who will get their panties in a bunch over it....
NO islands are being effected by rising waters caused by global warming! That's because global warming does not exist. It was fabricated by environmentalists to scare more people into furthering their "environmental" agenda. What they had to say sounded believable and many, many people did. However, global warming caused by our societies increased hydrocarbon output has been recently proven to be false. You can disagree with this all you want but that still doesn't change truth.
Some of the places most affected by rising sea levels are expected to include Bangladesh, where millions of people could be displaced, and some of the low-lying Pacific Islands. Holland, New Orleans, London and Venice are other areas.
Most of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which extends for over a thousand kilometres, will be destroyed. The littoral zones will be affected, and there may be a considerable loss of mangroves. These are the feeding and breeding grounds for fish.
River flats will be inundated, or at least salinated and therefore unproductive for agriculture. Beaches will erode, and some beachfront properties are already at risk. In some areas the entire coastline will change.
Kiribati is probably the country most at risk from the flooding caused by global warming. Rising seas are already flooding the fields where they grow their food crops. They have no high land to move to. Whenever there is a storm and a high tide together they are at risk. Their supplies of fresh water are already contaminated with sea water. The 103,000 people may soon become refugees.
i think many places have been affected by sea level rise,for example like Katrina that is caused by sea level rise.
All countries, including all South Pacific countries, are being affected by global warming. Several of the island countries, like Kiribati, are barely above sea level.
Theres no such thing as global warming, its a way for the government to get more money out of the people. So therefore, you question is not able to be solved. Thank you
Sea levels are rising, threatening many low-lying Pacific islands and their inhabitants.
If you use electricity, or ride in a car, or drink a can of beverage, then you are, in a small way, contributing to global warming. Global warming is happening because billions of us are all doing the same as you.
The end of global warming would help the ozone. It is because the depletion of ozone is directly related to the global warming caused by greenhouse gases.
Floods, and because of global warming they have increased.
Because of all of the global warming and/or earthquakes are separating the plates Bangkok is on water is rising up from earths crust
Because global warming is hot!
Rising Waters Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Islands - 2000 TV was released on: USA: 2000
i think it is bad as it is raising the sea level which can result sinking of land masses.as the name 'global warming' says that heating of the earth which can result in perishing many living organisms.hence global warming is very bad.
There is no such thing as "a global warming" global warming only happens to earth because human and our unruly decrease in the earths resources. HUMANS cause global warming.
Global warming and the humans abandoned it because of global warming. Global warming
Global Warming is coming to earth. It is because of ozone depletion.
Because it is GLOBAL, not local warming.
Global Warming does affect the survival rate of Polar Bears because Global Warming Melts the ice.
Theres no such thing as global warming, its a way for the government to get more money out of the people. So therefore, you question is not able to be solved. Thank you
Coastal Areas and Islands, atolls.
Yes it is because it is global warming and any country has global warming for example the Netherlands it's due global warming if not that country will be in a hazard of flooding !