[Coral-List] New report says Coral Reefs Could be Decimated by 2100
Steve Mussman
sealab at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 21 14:29:00 EST 2012
Dear Doug,
You know how I feel about this.
As we approach the end of yet another year of nonintervention in response to
these all too common revelations, what can we do to change the paradigm? At
least in this country, efforts aimed at dealing with climate change remain
politically untenable. Perhaps dare I say, on par with sacrilegious efforts
at restraining the second amendment. And that's with the aftermath of Sandy
and Sandy Hook staring us in the face.
Recently I've been involved in efforts at getting the leaders of the scuba
diving industry to publicly recognize that climate change is real and a
threat to coral reefs as indicated by the recent consensus statement issued
by the ICRS. But to no avail, the topic is viewed as a non-starter. So if
an entire industry that to some extent relies on coral reefs for their
economic viability can't bring themselves to recognize the realities of the
issue, how can we expect others not so intimately involved to react
appropriately?
Of course your article is pointing almost a century down the road. Maybe I'm
showing my age because somehow it appears to me to be right around the
corner.
Cheers indeed,
Steve
-----Original Message-----
>From: Douglas Fenner
>Sent: Dec 20, 2012 10:22 PM
>To: coral list
>Subject: [Coral-List] New report says Coral Reefs Could be Decimated by
2100
>
>http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/12/coral-reefs-could-be-decimate
d-b.html
>
>There are some links to various things, "prepared" is the link to this
>project.
>
>Cheers, Doug
>
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