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he spectre of coal
ships traversing the Great Barrier Reef couldn’t be more laden with symbolism,
according to Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg.
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| Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg - a 'death sentence for the reef'. |
Director, Global Change Institute at The University of Queensland, Prof Hoegh-Guldberg discusses this perverse dichotomy on the
weekend edition of The Conversation.
“The coal extracted from the Queensland landscape, if burned
along with other fossil fuel reserves, will ensure the destruction of the Great
Barrier Reef.
“With only 500-800 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide left in the
global carbon budget, beyond which we will push the climate into a dangerous
state, the emissions from even a single mine can play a significant role,” he writes.
Read his story - “Coal and climate change: a death sentence for the Great Barrier Reef”.
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