Climate change is having a significant impact on the islands in the Pacific Ocean. Scientists predict that further global warming amid humanity’s burning of fossil fuels threatens their future. What threatens the Pacific islands According to the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) 2023 report on the state of the climate in the Southwest Pacific, Pacific islands are under a “triple whammy” that threatens their socioeconomic development and even their very existence. According to experts, this includes accelerating sea level rise (which already exceeds the global average)heating of the oce…