Summit Voice: Low-lying islands may be facing more global warming trouble than previously thought.
New modeling that includes storm wind and wave action shows some islands could face regular inundation within the next few decades as sea level rises.
Even if the islands are not permanently submerged, ocean flooding is likely contaminate freshwater supplies, damage agriculture and infrastructure and threaten important bird, sea turtle and marine mammal habitat.
Oceanographer Curt Storlazzi of the USGS Pacific...