Eberhard Gischler
Peter Davies
Lucien Montaggioni
Gilbert Camoin
Wolf-Christian Dullo
Curt D. Storlazzi
Michael E. Field
Charles Fletcher
Eric E. Grossman
C. Sheppard
Halard Lescinsky
Douglas Fenner
John McManus
Sander Scheffers
Dennis Hubbard
2014
<p><span>In his In Depth News story “Warming may not swamp islands” (1 August, p. </span><a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.345.6196.496" data-mce-href="https://science.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.345.6196.496">496</a><span>), C. Pala argues that “coral reefs supporting sandy atoll islands will grow and rise in tandem with the sea,” based largely on studies that showed stable Pacific-island area over recent decades (</span><a id="xref-ref-1-1" class="xref-bibr" href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6203/1461.1#ref-1" data-mce-href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6203/1461.1#ref-1"><i>1</i></a><span>–</span><a id="xref-ref-4-1" class="xref-bibr" href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6203/1461.1#ref-4" data-mce-href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6203/1461.1#ref-4"><i>4</i></a><span>). He suggests that recent land losses are driven mostly by bad choices and that islanders are being affected “for the same reason as millions of people on the continents: because they live too close to shore.” We disagree with these conclusions.</span></p>
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Island outlook: Warm and swampy
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