Tiny islands face change that is hard to believe in

Faaui Siale is sitting in her open-walled home, at the northern end of Tuvalu's atoll capital, Funafuti. Three generations live here, side by side on a sliver of coral sand barely 50 metres wide. 

Ocean waves thump the land to her left and a lagoon laps the shore on her right.
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But Siale, 60, is unconcerned. She does not accept that the sea level is rising. ''I believe there won't be any more floods, because of the covenant between Noah and the Lord God,'' she says, with her daughter-in-law interpreting. ''They made a promise during those days that there won't be another flood in the world.''

It is a belief shared by many of her compatriots. Recently, a survey conducted by the Tuvalu Christian Church found that nearly a third of the population did not believe in climate change, based on their interpretation of the Old Testament.
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Lusama, however, prefers an alternative interpretation of God's pledge to Noah. ''God is faithful to his covenant and He is not causing climate change and sea level rise,'' he says. ''It is human-induced, not divinely induced.''
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''Put simply, why should I die for the sake of luxury for others? That is injustice.''