ENVIRONMENT: Tuvalu sinking? Much ado about nothing*

For at least the past 10 years, the small island-state of Tuvalu, located deep in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Australia, has been conducting a campaign against global warming, declaring that the islanders are the world’s first “climate refugees” whose islands will be swallowed up by rising sea-levels.This campaign has been remarkably successful. In 2002, Tuvalu announced that it would take legal action against the worst emitters of greenhouse gases, the United States and Australia.In 20…

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