[Coral-List] Will Kiribati and other atoll countries drown in sea level rise??

[Douglas Fenner]

A new article in Nature:

Before we drown we may die of thirst.

http://www.nature.com/news/before-we-drown-we-may-die-of-thirst-1.18652?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20151029&spMailingID=49884916&spUserID=MjA1NTA3MjA0OQS2&spJobID=783976831&spReportId=NzgzOTc2ODMxS0

The question of the survival of the reef ecosystem and whether it can
continue to supply sand is mentioned.  Some interesting pictures.

Open access.

Cheers,  Doug

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Douglas Fenner
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"Belief in climate change is optional, participation is not."- Jim Beever.
  "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts."-
Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Climate change could cost trillions more in damage, because of thawing
Arctic permafrost.   (a mere $3-166 Trillion, while even without Arctic
warming, climate change is estimated to cost $326 Trillion globally.  The
entire world economy is only about $72-85 Trillion a year.)

http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2015/09/climate-change-could-cost-trillions-more-damages-because-thawing-arctic-permafrost?utm_campaign=email-news-latest

Global warming 'hiatus' trashed by new study.
http://www.rtcc.org/2015/09/17/global-warming-hiatus-trashed-by-new-study/

King Coal and the queen of subsidies
(total subsidies for coal worldwide exceed $3 Trillion a year.)
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6254/1286.full?utm_campaign=email-sci-toc

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