I sort of don't blame President Gayoom for spreading his global warming nonsense. He is president of an island nation whose fate is solely in God's hands.
Just as God took the mythical nation of Atlantis, He may also take the Maldives. And, neither SUVs or greenhouse gas emissions contributing to the junk science of "global warming" will have had a thing to do with.
It's a terrible and sad trgedy that has struck those nations, but using it to exploit the nonsense of global warming is just more leftist politics to try and control the rest of the world.
There are plenty of low-lying islands in the world and all in danger of submerging, which has been true since before environmentalism was "invented."
I've flown over the South China Sea, home of lots of little golf-course size islands that quite obviously were not permanent. In the past, natives piled into their canoes and moved on to other islands, and thus the Pacific was populated. No one should expect such delicate blips on the geological screen to last forever.