What does the melting of ice in the artic region have to do with hotter days here in tropics? Well plenty according to weather experts. The Caribbean Climate Change Center in Belize is hosting "a stakeholder workshop on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in the Artic and Small Developing States." That's a mouthful but Director of the Climate Change Center Kenrick Leslie and John Crump from UNEP explained that the concept is simple.
John Crump, UNEP
"These regions which are small and in quotation marks vulnerable are feeling the most immediate effects of climate changed. You know the effects you are feeling here; hurricanes, increasing storms, hurricanes etc. In the artic, a very similar kinds of sea level increases, storm impact on all coast communities and all of that. So there is a real unity of purpose between these two quire different regions."
Kevin Leslie, Director - CCCC
"In the Caribbean and the Pacific we are faced with similar problems, not from melting snow, but from problems of the sea level rise. People don't think in terms of what the sea level rise, they might think in terms of one foot or three feet. We are not talking that at the moment. Small rises in terms of one, two, or three centimeters can create major problems for the small islands."
