The Great Barrier Reef is dying: who cares?
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Clearly not Penny Wong (Climate Change Minister in Australia).
Seriously, for those of you not in Australia, you have to see this mogadon to believe her. I don’t know WHY she is in this position. She is pathetic. She’s presided over a do-nothing approach to the Murray River, and has come up with an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) that EVERYONE thinks is woeful, AND that she does not know the detail of. Rudd, sack her. Put Combet in there. Jeez, it’s not like we have another planet to play this on.
Scientists who actually know this stuff, are saying:
The Australian Great Barrier Reef will die above 450 ppm CO2 due to ocean acidification and warming. Professor James Hansen (top US climate scientist, head, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies): “We face a climate emergency”. Australian Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty: “We are in real danger.” Professor David de Kretser AC (eminent medical scientist and Governor of Victoria, Australia) “There is no doubt in my mind that this is the greatest problem confronting mankind at this time and that it has reached the level of a state of emergency.” Dr Andrew Glikson (palaeo-climate scientist, ANU, Canberra): “The continuing use of the atmosphere as an open sewer for industrial pollution has … raised CO2 levels to 387 ppm CO2 to date, leading toward conditions which existed on Earth about 3 million years (Ma) ago (mid-Pliocene), when CO2 levels rose to about 400 ppm, temperatures to about 2–3 degrees C and sea levels by about 25 +/- 12 metres.” Top UK climate scientist Professor James Lovelock FRS predicts that only 500 million people will survive this century as a result of unaddressed, man-made climate change – Climate Genocide. [3]
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