<![CDATA[Kiribati Was Half Submerged During WWII]]>Kiribati is asking for “climate change mitigation funding” from stupid westerners this week, because sea level is rising there at a rate of six inches per century.

Below are some pictures showing what Kiribati looked like in the 1940s.

Tarawa, was a World War II battlefield whose coral and sand landscape was turned into a charred crisp that resembled something like a lunar surface by Allied and Japanese forces.

http://www.bigempire.com/sake/kiribatiwwii.html


KIRIBATI – MARCH 1944: US Army Engineers’ causeway built out of coral to connect the many islands of the Tarawa Atoll.

http://www.life.com/image/53375161

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