Kieren Keke remembers growing up on the Pacific island of Nauru,
the world's smallest independent republic. "The weather patterns
were predictable," he says. "There was a wet season and a dry
season, an annual cycle. When there was drought, it was
limited." "Now it's different," he tells CNN. "There's no
predictability -- periods of drought can last seven or eight
years, and when we get storms they are more intense. The
coastline is being eroded. Now the sea is right up to people's
doorsteps." Keke is now foreign minister of Nauru, and leads the
Alliance of Small Island States at the current U.N. Climate
Change conference in Doha, Qatar. The Alliance is fighting a
David-and-Goliath battle with the world's biggest polluters --
trying to shame them into tougher action to limit emissions and
curb the warming of the planet. The 43 members of the Alliance
include countries that are literally disappearing amid rising
sea levels. And they accuse the likes of India, China and the
United States of not addressing clima