“We are counting the days rather than the decades...We don't have the time that we thought we had previously，” Kiribati President Anote Tong said.

　　Pelenise Alofa returned to Kiribati six years ago. The changes she saw led to her becoming one of the islands principal climate change campaigners. “Things began to change when I came here. I realized the king tides were big, and I told them‘have you heard of climate change, have you heard of global warming, this is part of it, you're in it，’” Ms Alofa told SBS.

　　Linda Uan and her New Zealand­born husband John have been documenting the changing climate in Kiribati for nearly 20 years. They didn't have to travel far to film the effects of a storm three years ago when for the first time it washed through their home. “There's been a lot of changes，” Linda said, “When we were little there was a definite dry season and a definite wet season, now you can't feel the difference anymore.”

　　Kiribati is not just facing one knock­out punch but a whole round of killer blows. Because of its sensibility to the El Nino and La Nina weather patterns, climate scientists say droughts and floods will be more severe than in the past. Warmer seas could affect the migration patterns of fish, taking away vast taxes it gains from selling fishing licenses to foreign trawlers, while increased storms are expected to destroy crops and make the limited supply of water in the shallow water pools undrinkable.

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