Predictions that rising sea levels will swallow up low lying islands are a 'false alarm', an expert has claimed. Apocalyptic warnings that islands such as the Maldives will sink beneath the waves are far-fetched, said Nils Axel-Morner, former head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University. He says that any rise in sea levels is to do with natural historic fluctuations.Opening this year's UN Climate Conference Mohammed Nasheed, President of the Maldives, warned this his country was 'an island nation that may slip beneath the waves if all this talk on climate does not lead to action soon'.While, in his briefing to the convention, Rajenda Pachauri, head of the International Panel on Climate Change, outlined the dangers science anticipates unless carbon emissions are curbed
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