potholer54 | 'The Maldives Mystery' resolved @potholer54 | Uploaded May 2019 | Updated October 2024, 54 minutes ago.
This is a response to the Academic Agent's "Climate Change -- The Maldives Mystery."
I am currently on assignment and won't be able to list sources for at least another week. My apologies for the delay.
This is also the reason why my voice is a bit hoarse (up at 6 every morning, working late) and why I'm not using my usual recording gear. So my thanks to all those who expressed concern, but I'm still fit and healthy.
CORRECTIONS:
1) Well, not so much a correction, more of a qualification. When I said that "all investments depreciate over time," I was specifically referring to the kind of investments AA was talking about -- like hotels, airports, shops and buildings in general. Depreciation is even built in as a tax loss in many countries.
2) I made a mistake in saying that the "21st century" in the title refers to the next century. Of course it is this century.
SOURCES:
Coral reefs facing damage and dying due to warmer water and acidification:
1) "Warm-water coral reefs and climate change" - Spalding and Brown (Science 2015)
2) "Global warming triggers coral reef bleaching tipping point" -- Goreau et al. 2021
3) "Coral reefs in peril in a record-breaking year" -- Hoegh-Guldberg et al 2023
This is a response to the Academic Agent's "Climate Change -- The Maldives Mystery."
I am currently on assignment and won't be able to list sources for at least another week. My apologies for the delay.
This is also the reason why my voice is a bit hoarse (up at 6 every morning, working late) and why I'm not using my usual recording gear. So my thanks to all those who expressed concern, but I'm still fit and healthy.
CORRECTIONS:
1) Well, not so much a correction, more of a qualification. When I said that "all investments depreciate over time," I was specifically referring to the kind of investments AA was talking about -- like hotels, airports, shops and buildings in general. Depreciation is even built in as a tax loss in many countries.
2) I made a mistake in saying that the "21st century" in the title refers to the next century. Of course it is this century.
SOURCES:
Coral reefs facing damage and dying due to warmer water and acidification:
1) "Warm-water coral reefs and climate change" - Spalding and Brown (Science 2015)
2) "Global warming triggers coral reef bleaching tipping point" -- Goreau et al. 2021
3) "Coral reefs in peril in a record-breaking year" -- Hoegh-Guldberg et al 2023
