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Second world war dead washed up by Pacific Ocean's rise - caused by global warming
South China Morning Post ^ | June 8, 2014 6:27 GMT | Agence France-Presse

Posted on 06/07/2014 11:04:48 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists

Skeletons of second world war soldiers are being washed from their graves by the rising Pacific Ocean as global warming leads to inundation of islands that saw some of the fiercest fighting of the conflict.

On the day Europe commemorated the 70th anniversary of the storming of Normandy beaches in the D-Day landings, a minister from the Marshall Islands, a remote archipelago between Hawaii and the Philippines, told how the remains of 26, probably Japanese soldiers, had been recovered so far on the isle of Santo.

"There are coffins and dead people being washed away from graves; it's that serious," said Tony de Brum, the minister of foreign affairs for the Marshall Islands.

Tides "have caused not just inundation and flooding of communities where people live but have also done severe damage in undermining regular land so that even the dead are affected".

(Excerpt) Read more at scmp.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: chickenlittle; erosion; globalwarming; hennypenny; japan; kingtides
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To: TigersEye

Surprize is one of your many weapons.


41 posted on 06/08/2014 12:03:48 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Stop wishing for a perfect world. You may get it. Who will you talk to then?)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

No one should go about unarmed!


42 posted on 06/08/2014 12:22:42 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: sickoflibs

What an environmental calamity! What’s next? Old beer bottles?


43 posted on 06/08/2014 11:29:45 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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