Sinking Feelings.

It must indeed be difficult seeing the water lap futher and further up your atoll and it would certainly give the impression (create the illusion) that the water was rising ... or would it? If the contrary view is correct, that these atolls are but following a natural life cycle and sinking ... then tying 44 gallon drums to the perimeter wont work ... pulling the plug and letting a little water out isn't really practicable ... perhaps it's simply time to 'jump ship.'
Dr Iftikhar Ayaz, honorary consul for Tuvalu in London, is battling to raise awareness of the effects that climate change is having on smaller, less developed nations.
"The time to act is now," he said ... and he may well be right ... to them it is indeed a problem of titanic proportions and unless they do something in preparation there may well be too few life boats.