Ah, here's a nice game of misdirection played by the writer. The waters are definitely rising on this island, he claims, and that might well be true. But it DOES NOT FOLLOW that those rising waters are the fault of man.
Instead, though, we're supposed to say "Ooooh, the waters ARE rising, we really DO need Kyoto."
Yeah, right.
Tuvalu is sinking. I think we would have noticed a significant rise in ocean levels.
The water level on the Great Lakes has been down over the past seven or eight years.