Gradual effects of global warming not so gradual for some…

    Global warming threatens to obliterate the Pacific’s many island nations, as the sea level is projected to rise at least three feet this century.  

    The UN appears to be unable or unwilling to respond to the immenent threat to these small countries … just as it is unable to act in the face of the threat climate change poses to the planet itself.

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