Kiribati

Kiribati islands are facing similar problems. The under ground fresh water used for drinking is affected by sea water giving a salty taste, hard to drink in other parts of the island. The saddest side we now experiencing fortnightly is the king tide which is level to the land height two meters in height above sea level.

Climate change and it impacts is a reality in Kiribati.

I was staying at a Government quarters in the vicinity of the coastline at the ocean side of Bikenibue Village in South Tarawa the Capital of Kiribati. During last spring tide in August 2009, I woke up one morning to see water covering all the ground area in front of my home. I knew that it was not raining that night so I wondered where that water came from.

If you wish to be treated seriously as an organisation of worth and integrity, then you should do your homework before publishing messages like the one on Kiribati - e.g. old people saying that sealevel rise is cyclic.

The people of Tebua Tarawa would be interested in the comment "Stay where the old village used to be" - for them there is no choice as they've been forced to re-locate.

Please, we don't need personal so-called "research" and half truths posturing as truth from threatened countries.

Thank you

What I would share here may come as a different approach however, to fully understand a subject it is good to see opposing and agreeable views to broaden the scope of our understanding of the subject matter.

I live in Kiribati which is a low lying string of coral atolls. It comes as no surprise that our neighbouring coral atoll state, Tuvalu is voicing its concern over sea-level rise because it is a problem.