High tides in island nations in the Pacific Ocean are indicative of the global threat posed by climate change, UPI quoted the U.N. secretary general as saying. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Kiribati President Anote Tong to discuss the threat climate change poses to his island nation. The United Nations early this year had warned the Maldives, another Pacific island nation, that it needs domestic reform and international support to offset climate change risks that threaten to inundate the island nation. Rising sea levels and global climate change threaten to submerge the Maldives within decades. Ban in his message to the Kiribati president welcomed efforts taken there, and globally, to bring climate change issues to the top of the world's agenda. Ban in a statement said world leaders need to take action now to find a way to live in harmony with nature, especially in developing countries. "The high tide shows that it is high time to act," he said.
