$ 2 trillion a year - damage to the oceans ..

Researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute have come up with figures that if climate change is not acted against now, the world will end up paying $ 2 trillion annually for damage to the oceans .. By 2010 AD, global average temps will rise by 4deg C.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/03/valuing-oceans 

Possibly this monetary figure will get more heads to turn and take notice !!

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