Global Climate Change Action

Dear Anne,

I am delighted that you will publish my Culture of Ignoring missive.

I was getting very despondent that only about 0.2% of the thousands of variously eminent and influential Australians I have written to had likewise agreed to inform others - and even more despondent hearing the expert opinion just now on ABC TV Lateline from our top coral expert Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg that 15% of the Great Barrier Reef has already gone and it is doomed with current behaviour.

Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg (top world expert on climate change and coral; University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) published a paper in 2007 in the world's top scientific journal Science (Coral Reefs under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification, Science 14 December 2007: Vol. 318. no. 5857, pp. 1737 - 1742 ; see:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/318/5857/1737 , and
commented thus on the ABC Science Show with Robyn Williams
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2007/2115399.htm : "This is a paper that's really wrapping up essentially ten years of science. It's bringing together the two great threats to coral reefs, global warming and ocean acidification. What we find out is that the threat is much closer than we thought in the past, and in fact the magic number may be 450. When I say '450'; 450 parts per million of carbon dioxide and we lose them." (for opinions of other top Australian climate scientist see: http://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/climate-emerg...
-what-outstanding-australian-scientists-say .

Please feel free to link, re-publish and otherwise disseminate the Climate Emergency Fact Sheets and all other documents placed on its website by our Yarra Valley Climate Action Group (see:
http://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/Home ).

Best regards, Gideon Polya