Claim: In 1989, a senior U.N. environmental official said, "Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000."
Fact-check: Did UN Official Say Nations to Vanish If Global Warming Not Reversed?
Verdict: correct attribution
Organisation: Snopes
Author: Alex Kasprak
Date published: 2019-09-20T13:48:48