 and so there's been a study that's been released and actually i knew about this six years ago there was another study that proved it but the new york times is just now getting around to publishing it because you know they're on top of things um but the deal is is that the coral grows with the rising sea level and the islands have actually been gaining surface area they're not sinking into the sea so all this money that the people out there in the maldives were clamoring for help us save us we need money to save us from climate change