'Climate change is here ..... now' - The Age

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he Sunday Age today publishes a report from climate change's front line. Our deputy editor, and former Age environment editor, Adam Morton, went to the Solomon Islands to interview residents, collect evidence and observe how the very existence of the islands is being affected by changes to the climate.

Morton's report puts flesh and bones on the arguments and proves incontrovertibly that the threat is real, that indeed lives hang in the balance.

Taro Island (pop. 600) is the capital of Choiseul, one of several provinces that make up the Solomon Islands. The atoll is a dot in the ocean, and less than that in the wider world geographically and politically. But in its fate lies a measure and a marker of how rising sea levels, brought about by climate change, can have costly consequences.

Read the Editorial in today’s Melbourne Age - “Climate change is here ... and now".