Our world is on track for heating so intense as to call into question the future of civilization. Bleak vistas open before us, of drowned cities, of seared dustbowls where there were once breadbaskets, of the great reservoirs of biodiversity – rainforests and coral reefs – turning into deserts, biologically and literally. Indeed, one of the questions that concerned the scientists that day in DC, the fate of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, was tragically answered by summer 2017. A combination of heating and increasingly acidic ocean waters left the reef bleached and half dead, with poor prospects for recovery. More
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