[Coral-List] "A Glimmer of Hope for Coral Reefs"

[Szmant, Alina]

Article in today's business section of our newspaper:  investment in clean energy sources is down this past year.  Some businesses have failed.  Venture capitalists don't want to take the risk.  Government subsidies are down.  I don't see much glimmer out there....

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Dr. Alina M. Szmant
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-----Original Message-----
From: coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov [mailto:coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov] On Behalf Of Michael Risk
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 9:09 AM
To: Douglas Fenner
Cc: coral list
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] "A Glimmer of Hope for Coral Reefs"

Hi Doug.

Some of the recent postings put me in mind of passengers on the Titanic saying to each other, "It's OK, the Carpathian will pick us up."

Rather than see so much excellent work devoted to finding corals that can survive hot oceans, or dredging remnants up from deep reefs to fill the gaps, I would rather see more effort given to trying to initiate change in those governments and industries that have put reefs on their present downward trajectory. And the cynic in me thinks that some of those same governments and industries are delighted to see us clutching at straws.

Mike

On 2013-01-07, at 4:00 PM, Douglas Fenner wrote:

> Research by Standford University researchers on coral tolerance for 
> high temperatures in some reef pools in American Samoa, just 
> published.  Popular article in "Science Now" (open access) with a link to the original paper:
> 
> http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/01/a-glimmer-of-hope-for-co
> ral-reef.html
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Michael Risk
riskmj at mcmaster.ca



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