For many, global warming kills
Hardly anyone at the U.N. climate-change conference in Poland needs to be convinced of the need for urgent action to stop global warming. Yet for some delegations in Poznan, the issue is a matter of life and death.
Apisai Ielemia is the prime minister of Tuvalu, a small island state located in the Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaii and Australia. A barrel-chested man with a deep voice, Ielemia at the high-level summit of the climate conference on Thursday called on the world to "act before it is too late for us. Â… Our future is in your hands."
