Newly sworn-in Maldives president vows to buy land to relocate entire nation . Climate change-threatened Indian Ocean islands could sink under rising sea levels . The world's most powerful man is a climate change denier who has called global warming "a hoax. The island was badly hit by the December 2004 tsunami , which killed an estimated 273,800 people and left thousands missing across Asia and Africa . " Island was badly hit by tsunami of 2004 , with more than 100 people dead or missing .
Newly sworn-in Maldives president vows to buy land to relocate entire nation . Climate change-threatened Indian Ocean islands could sink under rising sea levels . The world's most powerful man is a climate change denier who has called global warming "a hoax." Island was badly hit by tsunami of 2004 , with more than 100 people dead or missing .