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Preface:
This book is for anyone wishing to explore the natural wonder and beauty of coral reefs and understand the forces that create and destroy them. Reefs are already beyond 40% lost or unrecognisable and are disappearing five times faster than rainforests. Our current aim for carbon emission reduction, with 450 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere, is a future with no reefs. The best science published in late 2009 tells us that 350 ppm CO2 must be our upper limit…