+2.4°

CORAL REEFS
ALMOST EXTINCT

In North America, a new
dust-bowl brings deserts to
life in the high plains states,
centred on Nebraska, but also
wipes out agriculture and
cattle ranching as sand dunes
appear across five US states,
from Texas in the South to
Montana in the north.
Rising sea levels accelerate as
the Greenland ice sheet tips
into irreversible melt, sub-
merging atoll nations and
low-lying deltas. In Peru, dis-
appearing Andean glaciers
mean 10 million people face
water shortages. Warming
seas wipe out the Great Bar-
rier Reef and make coral reefs
virtually extinct throughout
the tropics. Worldwide, a third
of all species on the planet
face extinction.

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[+3.4° is from The Independent, Saturday 3 February 2007, front page. ‘We have ignition’ was published in Product magazine, Winter 2007-08.]