THE QUESTION
- During a speech delivered at the Crif national convention on November 14, the Socialist presidential candidate Anne Hidalgo said in particular: “
What was said at this COP in Glasgow is that there are entire countries that will disappear, entire countries that will be underwater by 2050.
”It is certainly a given that global warming leads to a rise in the level of the oceans; one of the objectives of the climate conference which ended last week in Glasgow was, among other things, to do everything to slow down the phenomenon. But is this rise fast enough to engulf entire nations in less than thirty years?
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CHECKS
- It is a given that global warming leads to the melting of polar ice, mountain glaciers and the dilation of ocean waters: the level of the latter is therefore increasing.
In the IPCC report published last August, international scientists note
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