Talk:Tuvalu

An event mentioned in this article is an October 1 selected anniversary. ---

I'm wondering why the "km2" stuff showed up on this edit. I didn't touch it. Perhaps this is a bug.

A couple of questions; first, what web browser are you using? What version of it, and what operating system are you running? Second, are these: 222222222222222222222 superscript numeral twos interspersed with regular numeral twos, or just a bunch of regular numeral twos? If the former, check again after you save your edit.

My first-order hypothesis is that your web browser sneakily changed the superscript twos into regular twos without your knowledge or consent. --Brion

That's quite possible. Mac OS 9.1, IE 5.0. It's never been known for it's reliability. To address the other question, your superscript 2s were showing up just fine until I did a preview of this talk post, and now they're all the same. Is this just on my end?Hephaestos

Omniweb 4.1 on Mac OS 10.2 seems to have done the trick. Hephaestos

The Evacuation

How many of the Tuvaluans will leave the islands? Surely not all? --Menchi 18:04, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

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Kyoto??

"while Australia has refused the Tuvaluans' petitions, presumably based on that country's rejection of the underlying basis of the Kyoto Protocol."

Maybe I'm missing something, but what does the Kyoto Protocol have to do with anything? I can't figure out why that bit is there.

The proposed possible evacuation of Tuvalu is due to anticipated effects of global warming: that the sea level will rise enough to cover much or all of the islands. The Kyoto Protocol is a treaty to reduce greenhouse gass emissions in order to help reduce or reverse global warming due to the greenhouse effect. So it sounds like this excerpt from the article is just saying that since, officially, Australia doesn't "believe in" global warming, it refuses to accept the claim that Tuvalu might need to be evacuated due to global warming. I agree that saying "the underlying basis of the Kyoto Protocol" is a very obtuse way of referring to global warming. I think the article should be changed to say something like "... presumably based on the Australian government's rejection of the reality of global warming." However, I don't know what Australia's exact position is, so I won't change the article.

Kiribati language

Check if "I-Kiribati" is an appropriate name for the Kiribati_language. Apokrif 09:12, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Capital

According to the CIA Factbook the capital city is called Funafuti (located on the atoll with the same name). Look at this link: CIA Factbook - Tuvalu Mnemo 22:21, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This is correct.

Population

The article gives two different population counts for 2005: 11,636 and 9,403. So which is it?