[Coral-List] corals record wind changes in Pacific

Douglas Fenner douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 16:59:38 EDT 2015


Pacific coral bleaching and manganese content point to immanent spike in
global temperatures.   (that is, within a decade)

http://www.ibtimes.com/pacific-coral-bleaching-manganese-content-point-imminent-spike-global-temperatures-1765652

based on this article:

Early twentieth-century warming linked to tropical Pacific wind strength.

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v8/n2/full/ngeo2321.html#affil-auth

Not open access.  Note where it says "author info" and look for contact
info.

Cheers,  Doug

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Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

phone 1 684 622-7084

Join the International Society for Reef Studies.  Membership includes a
subscription to the journal Coral Reefs, there are discounts for pdf
subscriptions and developing countries.  www.fit.edu/isrs/

"Belief in climate change is optional, participation is not."- Jim Beever.
  "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts."-
Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Energy policy: push renewables to spur carbon pricing.  (the world
subsidizes fossil fuels a half Trillion dollars a year!)

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v525/n7567/full/nature14876.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20150904&spMailingID=49465812&spUserID=MjA1NTA3MjA0OQS2&spJobID=760401953&spReportId=NzYwNDAxOTUzS0

Worst-case scenario: if we burn all remaining fossil fuels, Antarctica
would melt entirely, raise sea level 200 feet.

http://www.newsweek.com/worst-case-scenario-if-we-burn-all-remaining-fossil-fuels-antarctica-would-371280

5 trillion tons of ice lost since 2002.  (that's trillion with a "T".
Check the steady loss in the graphs.)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/09/03/ice_loss_greenland_and_antarctica_lost_5_trillion_tons_since_1992.html


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