Monday, October 31, 2011

Hundreds of islands in the Maluku islands Threatened to drown

VIVAnews-hundreds of islands in the Maluku islands threatened to sink over the next 20-30 years. It caused the surface of sea water due to meningginya the impact of global warming.

Deputy Minister of industry of Alex Retraubun said the rains caused flooding in some areas instead of just happens, but extreme weather influenced speed.

This condition is the negative effects of global warming now threatens the world. It gets worse yet, over the next 20 to 30 years, a lot of flat island that has no height will sink because of rising sea levels.

"Maluku is a province of the archipelago which has lots of flat island with its water level height already reached one meter. Foreseen in the 20 to 30 years, the Islands will sink, "he said at the Hotel Aston Ambon while attending a scientific meeting of the Association of Hydraulic Engineering Expert, Saturday, October 29, Indonesia.

For it was time the Government menggalakan Maluku province how to anticipate the danger that the program will be brought about as a result of rising sea levels at this time. His rise in surface seawater is not felt at all but slowly by slowly will be perceived when water has reached two meters more.

"Fortunately there are many islands that are uninhabited, but there are some also who inhabited. Therefore the Government should have thought to create a program for how to save the community living in the flat Islands in Maluku in the future before it fell victim, "he added.

As known, the number of the inhabited island flat either uninhabited or have not been counted as well. Generally flat Islands are almost evenly distributed across the berenghuni County is in the Maluku islands, for example, SBT Regency MTB, Aru Islands, SBB as well as in Central Maluku.

(Report: Abdul Karim, Ambon)

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