TUVALU AND MALDIVES: GOING, GOING, NOT

January 29, 2012, 4:41 am News

Posted 30 January 2012

Tuvalu and the Maldives are two tiny low-lying states making a big splash on the global warming scene. Journos love to label them the ‘canaries in the coal mine’ because when (or if) global warming does its thing, these states will be the first to be washed out. Both countries have been poster children for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and their delegates are prized fixtures at any IPCC conference, “as a symbol of all threatened small island environments”, as the fourth IPCC report put it.
Little is as it seems, as Tony Thomas explains in Quadrant Online.

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