[Coral-List] Two news stories about coral reefs

Wed Aug 24 14:59:39 EDT 2016

There are emissions regulations drafted by the IMO (International Maritime Organization). They recently (last 3 yrs?) put out a new standard for SOx emissions for new ships under MARPOL Annex VI. The problem is that the life of a ship can be quite long. It is built for one company/purpose and when it is done, then it is often sold to other companies, until it finally gets to a point where it is so old and inefficient that it too expensive to run and then scrapped.  That may take 30-40 years.... so the ships that are being pulled out of service today, in many cases, had keels laid in the 1970-1980 timeframe.  

http://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Environment/PollutionPrevention/AirPollution/Pages/Air-Pollution.aspx

>From the IMO website - "In 2012, international shipping was estimated to have contributed about 2.2% to the global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2)."

The issue w ships is the type of fuel they burn. Bunker fuel (diesel). Very dirty, very thick fuel... some shipping lines/cruise lines have modified their hulls via design/paints to make ships more efficient moving through the water to burn less fuel (this is done for $$ purposes), but at this point, the real limiting factor is the fuel. Unless we want commercial shipping to go the way of many military ships with small nuclear reactors.

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What is the contribution of the shipping industry to global CO2 emissions? I mean cargo ships, oil tankers, and cruise ships. Didn't they get excluded from the regulations to reduce CO2?

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To put things in perspective:
The contribution of aircraft to global CO2 emissions has been estimated at around 2%, the cement industry at 5%. Meat and dairy production at 18%.

Blockedhttp://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc/aviation/index.htm

Blockedhttp://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/09/emissions-from-the-cement-industry/

Blockedhttp://www.europarl.europa.eu/climatechange/doc/FAO%20report%20executive%20summary.pdf

> On Aug 23, 2016, at 11:23, Paul Sammarco <psammarco at lumcon.edu> wrote:
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> Dear Folks,
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> This is basically correct.  One of the largest consumers and combusters of
> petroleum hydrocarbons is our jet fleets throughout the world.  The CO2
> mentioned below is released primarily in the upper atmosphere - at
> 25,000-35,000 ft or so.
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> Number 1 should be, stop flying in commercial jets from all over the world,
> emitting tonnes of co2 to see the reef.
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