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Study: Great Barrier Reef Doomed by 2030 Without Immediate Action
http://time.com/13619/study-great-barrier-reef-doomed-by-2030-without-immediate-action/Researchers warn that climate change will cause irreversible damage to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef by 2030 unless immediate action is taken.
“This is not a hunch or alarmist rhetoric by green activists,” said University of Queensland reef researcher Ove Hoegh-Guldberg in the report, presented Thursday ahead of this month’s Earth Hour global climate change campaign. “It is the conclusion of the world’s most qualified coral reef experts.”
“This is not a hunch or alarmist rhetoric by green activists,” said University of Queensland reef researcher Ove Hoegh-Guldberg in the report, presented Thursday ahead of this month’s Earth Hour global climate change campaign. “It is the conclusion of the world’s most qualified coral reef experts.”
Don't worry. We'll just study the problem for another decade, have a few UN meetings, and agree to enact a framework to address the problem over the next few decades starting around 2040.
That ought to do it.
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