On Sunday, October 31, ocean scientists urged many governments around the world to invest billions of dollars in ocean monitoring systems by 2015. According to the article, this monitoring system can do things from giving alerts for tsunamis to acidification linked to climate change. The scientists claim that this system would have large economic benefits. Oceans United, a scientific alliance, is going to present their plea to government in Beijing on November 3-5 which was set up in 2002 to for setting up such a system. The new system could cost up $10 billion to $15 billion to set and cost $5 billion annually to run and operate the system. This cost may seem like a large sum compared to the current $1billion to $3 billion cost to monitor the oceans. However, if these new systems could help us with early alert systems for hazards such as tsunamis, large disasters could be avoided saving not only a lot of money but human lives as well. In the long run this new system could save us money and allow to gain more knowledge on the earth. We could then use this knowledge to help mitigate future disasters for people around the world.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101031/ts_nm/us_climate_oceans
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