The other day, I blogged about the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, also known as COP15. One thing I didn’t mention was the tiny Pacific island of Tuvalu. Officials from Tuvalu showed up at the conference along with other officials of the Association of Small Island States (including the Cook Islands, Fiji, and Sierra Leone) to plead for a change. In case you haven’t heard about Tuvalu, it is a country that is about to disappear, literally. Tuvalu is only 4.5 meters above sea level at its highest. With the changes brought about by global warming, Tuvalu is getting … Continue reading →