One doesn’t have to be a global leader nor a scientist to understand the impact of climate change on our planet.  Among other things, small island-states like our own in the vast Pacific stand to bear the brunt of rising waters.  This situation was made visually starker in a recent speech on the impact of global warming by Tuvalu’s minister delivered and filmed while knee-deep in ocean water. It was another global disaster – still possibly triggered by relentless development…