[Coral-List] flood protection savings by coral reefs

Douglas Fenner douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 07:31:12 EDT 2018


Coral-reef fortifications save humans billions of dollars a year

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05439-9 (scroll down to the 14th
article)

Open-access


The global flood protection savings provided by coral reefs

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04568-z

Open-access


Keep cruses off remote reef rich in fish and birds

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05453-x?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20180621&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180621&spMailingID=56851658&spUserID=MjA1NTA3MjA0OQS2&spJobID=1422975329&spReportId=MTQyMjk3NTMyOQS2

Short, open-access

Cheers, Doug

-- 
Douglas Fenner
Contractor for NOAA NMFS Protected Species, and consultant
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

New online open-access field guide to 300 coral species in Chagos, Indian
Ocean
http://chagosinformationportal.org/corals

By getting serious about limiting global warming, the world could save
itself more than $20 trillion.  (action would cost only a half trillion
over 30 years, a third the cost of the Iraq war, benefits would be 40 times
costs, that's a huge return on investment)
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-global-warming-costs-20180523-story.html

The cost of a warming climate
http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/d41586-018-05198-7

Climate costs  http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/d41586-018-05219-5

Large potential reduction in economic damages under UN mitigation targets
(and 30% loss of world economy if the climate is allowed to warm by 4oC)
http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/s41586-018-0071-9


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