Transitioning Australia to 100% renewable energy by 2050 would cost less than continuing on the current path, according to a new report…Building the infrastructure to supply renewable energy for all electricity, transport and industry would cost about $800bn between now and 2050, the report from the institute for sustainable futures at the University of Technology Sydney, found…That’s about $650bn more than continuing with the status quo. But by removing the need for fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil, it would save the economy up to $740bn, saving $90bn over the period to 2050, the report found.
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Over the past two weeks, a team of researchers led by Julia Baum, a biologist at the University of Victoria and Kim Cobb, a climate scientist at Georgia Tech, has been stationed at Kiritimati, and via hundreds of dives they have taken comprehensive measurements of the reef’s health, or lack thereof in this case… about 80 % of coral colonies now dead…From cores ..analyzed…nothing like current die-off in Kiritimati in the 7,000 years of ancient coral history there. Global warming will 
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