What is the cost of climate change to our oceans? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The researchers state that the five areas they have focused on - fisheries, sea-level rise, storms, tourism and the ocean carbon-sink - can all be accurately priced, allowing them to measure the real, monetary costs of climate change.

According to a preview of the study's results, the final figures have been calculated using data only on variables that humans can realistically alter and only concerning factors to which an objective price can be assigned.

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Chu Has No Clue

In the real world, Secretary Chu and his merry band at the Energy Department have pursued polices designed to raise gasoline and other energy prices.  This is intentional and not the result of their incompetence.  Dr. Chu said in 2008 before President Obama nominated him that gas prices needed to rise gradually to European levels.  That is, seven to ten dollars a gallon, most of which is tax.  One reason for much higher gas taxes is that is the only way to make the alternative fuels and technologies that Secretary Chu has been promoting cheaper than gasoline.