Global warming in Tuvalu | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-14

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00:01:45 1 Climate systems that affect Tuvalu
00:04:28 2 Measuring climate change effects in Tuvalu
00:10:03 3 Concerns over long term habitability
00:11:15 4 Estimates as to changes in the sea level relative to the islands of Tuvalu
00:12:58 5 2011 report of the Pacific Climate Change Science Program
00:14:25 6 National response to the challenges faced by Tuvalu
00:15:13 6.1 The National Advisory Council on Climate Change
00:19:34 6.2 Tuvalu's role at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference 2009
00:21:20 6.3 Climate change leadership and the Majuro Declaration 2013
00:23:49 7 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) and the Paris Agreement
00:24:06 7.1 Commitment under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 1994
00:24:52 7.2 Tuvalu's COP21 goal of global temperature below 1.5 degrees Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels
00:26:33 8 Tuvalu Survival Fund (TSF)
00:27:09 9 The National Adaptation Programme of Action and the Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project
00:29:19 10 External links
00:31:19 11 Filmography



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Global warming (recent climate change) is dangerous in Tuvalu since the average height of the islands is less than 2 metres (6.6 ft) above sea level, with the highest point of Niulakita being about 4.6 metres (15 ft) above sea level. Tuvalu islands have increased in size between 1971 and 2014, during a period of global warming. Over 4 decades, there had been a net increase in land area in Tuvalu of 73.5 ha (2.9%), although the changes are not uniform, with 74% increasing and 27% decreasing in size. The sea level at the Funafuti tide gauge has risen at 3.9 mm per year, which is approximately twice the global average.Tuvalu could be one of the first nations to experience the effects of sea level rise. Not only could parts of the island be flooded but the rising saltwater table could also destroy deep rooted food crops such as coconut, pulaka, and taro. Research from the University of Auckland suggests that Tuvalu may remain habitable over the next century, but as of March 2018 Enele Sopoaga, the prime minister of Tuvalu, stated that Tuvalu is not expanding and has gained no additional habitable land.Enele Sopoaga, has also said that evacuating the islands is the last resort.