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Kiribati (70percent.org)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:23:39 GMT

Kiribati warned that by the end of the century, their country would be underwater, due to global warming. They should start on this Maritime colony project now. Anyone surf there?

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Kiribati looks for climate help from Australia (Alertnet)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:54:30 GMT

Source: Reuters CANBERRA, June 20 (Reuters) - With climate change threatening his tiny Pacific nation, Kiribati President Anote Tong on Friday asked Australia for help in the battle against rising seas that threaten ...

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New Kiribati (Pruned)

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:06:00 GMT

Earlier this month the president of Kiribati warned the nations of the world that his country will be gone by century's end. Submerged under rising sea level, a casualty of climate change. And even if, by some ridiculously well-timed miracle, everyone reduces their carbon footprint to near zero, the 92,000 island inhabitants “may be at the point of no return” where reversing the effects of the...

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Arrived on Christmas Island - Kiritimati, Line Islands, Kiribati (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:03:38 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Kiritimati, Line Islands, Kiribati Arrived on CXI to finalise air freight arrangements, monitor my waste, transport it to airport and get it out of Kiribati and on route to UK - no easy task.

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Heavily-Populated Kiribati Islands Sinking Beneath the Waves [Global Warming] (io9)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:03:52 GMT

Despite a couple of natural disasters involving hurricanes, river deltas and the destruction of cities, a lot of folks on Earth have a hard time believing that rising sea levels are a problem. Those people should talk to Anote Tong, the president of the island nation of Kiribati. He's convinced his country is going to be a modern day Atlantis by the end of the century, and last week he took...

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President vouches for visa chief's character (New Zealand Herald )

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:00:06 GMT

Kiribati President Anote Tong said yesterday that he knew the former head of the Immigration Service, Mary Anne Thompson, and that she was a woman of "good character". But he said they did not study together at the London School...

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Kiribati president asks for climate change help (OTB News)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:37:12 GMT

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The president of the South Pacific nation of Kiribati, threatened by rising sea levels caused by climate change, appealed Monday for more nations to help in relocating families whose homes have been submerged or are threatened…. Share This

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Kiribati president asks for climate change help (Miami Herald)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:28:15 GMT

The president of the South Pacific nation of Kiribati, threatened by rising sea levels caused by climate change, appealed Monday for more nations to help in relocating families whose homes have been submerged or are threatened.

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Kiribati president asks for climate change help (Seattle Times)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:10:08 GMT

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Kiribati President knew former Immigration boss (http://www.CelebrityVideoTube.com)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:57:47 GMT

Stuff The visiting President of Kiribati Anote Tang says he knew former Immigration New Zealand boss Mary Anne Thompson, but has no idea about her controversial qualifications. Ms Thompson had a close asso… Read the full article here

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Tiny Atoll in Pacific Cries Out for Help (Red Orbit )

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:00:09 GMT

By Suchit Nair WELLINGTON/CHRISTCHURCH: World Environment Day may have been celebrated across the planet with some fanfare and lots of tree planting on Thursday but it was put in perspective by Anote Tong, president of the small Pacific Ocean nation of Kiribati comprising 32 atolls, when he issued a plaintive appeal to global leaders to save his country from disappearing from the face of the earth....

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Paradise lost: climate change forces South Sea islanders to seek sanctuary abroad (The Independent)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:00:01 GMT

After years of fruitless appeals for decisive action on climate change, the tiny South Pacific nation of Kiribati has concluded that it is doomed. Yesterday its President, Anote Tong, used World Environment Day to request international help to evacuate his country before it disappears.

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Island Nation Going Under While Our Lawmakers Delay (NWF View)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:29:23 GMT

The president of Kiribati said today his country may already be doomed by climate change. At international meetings on climate change this week, President Anote Tong listened in frustration while other countries argued that it would hurt their countries’ economic...

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Doomed Kiribati needs escape plan (New Zealand Herald )

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:00:14 GMT

Kiribati's President, Anote Tong, says his country may already be doomed by global warming - and he wants New Zealand and Australia to consider the issue of environmental refugees. "We may already be at the point of no return,...

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Endangered Pacific islet facing mass relocation (ENN: Top Stories)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:11:04 GMT

World Environment Day is an opportunity for a diverse spread of countries, companies and communities to look at their environmental problems and try to find some solutions. But for the tiny Pacific nation of Kiribati, the environmental outlook is so grim the President, Anote Tong, has issued an appeal for Australia and other countries for help.

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Kiribati Threatened! (Mover Mike)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:06:00 GMT

The President Anote Tong of Kiribati is convinced that the island, part of a series of coral atolls, is being destroyed because of rising sea levels caused by (gasp!) global warming. "Villages that have been there over the decades, maybe a century, and now they have to be relocated. "Where they have been living over the past few decades is no longer there, it is being eroded ." "Eroded" is an...

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Global Warming Idiocy (Tangled Blog)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:49:00 GMT

Today there is a doom and gloom article based on statements given at a press conference marking World Environment Day . The remarks were made by the president of the low-lying Pacific atoll nation of Kiribati. Kiribati likely doomed by climate change President Anote Tong said communities had already been resettled and crops destroyed by seawater in some parts of the country, made up of 33 coral atolls...

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Is Global Warming Sinking Kiribati? (tbirdnow.mee.nu)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:31:53 GMT

Timothy Birdnow Here is a piece from Yahoo News (courtesy of Matt Drudge) about the alleged effects of ``climate change`` on the islands of Kiribati. Anote Tong, president of the Pacific archipelago nation, is issuing hysterical warnings that Kiribati may be doomed by rising sea levels. According to Mr. Tong: "I am not a scientist but what I know is that things are happening we did not experience in...

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Pacific island leader seeks new home for his people (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:45:01 GMT

Wellington - The leader of the Pacific island state of Kiribati said on Wednesday that he has to find new homes for his 100,000 people because global warming could make the country disappear under the sea in 50 to 60 years. Anote Tong, president of K...

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NZ invites Kiribati chief (Fiji Times)

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:32:36 GMT

WELLINGTON will today host World Environment Day, the first time New Zealand has held the annual event which is observed in more than 100 countries.

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