[Coral-List] Florida coral restoration in hot water

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Hi Doug,

After reading that article, the quote below the title caught my eye for a second time.

“Additional risky measures are now called for, unless we just want to give up,” one scientist says

Are those our only alternatives?

Additional “risky measures” or giving up?

Here’s a quote I’d like to see instead.

“In light of recent developments, we can either give up or devote our energies to cleaning up our oceans; reducing carbon emissions and trying our best to recreate the conditions that allowed corals and other forms of marine life to flourish in the first place”.

Thanks for all your posts!

Steve

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On 2/8/24, 5:51 PM, Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

After mass coral die-off, Florida scientists rethink plan to save ailing

reefs

After unprecedented heat wave killed transplanted coral, reef experts are

charting a new strategy

https://www.science.org/content/article/after-mass-coral-die-off-florida-scientists-rethink-plan-to-save-ailing-reefs

Could this be a window into the future for much of the world's reefs??

Cheers, Doug

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NOAA Fisheries Service

Pacific Islands Regional Office

Honolulu

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Coral Reef Consulting

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Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799-6298 USA

Costanza, R. 2023. To build a better world, stop chasing economic growth.

Nature 624: 519-521. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04029-8

Fossil fuel air pollution kills 5 million people world-wide per year

https://www.yahoo.com/news/research-shows-disturbing-between-millions-200000257.html

World's richest 1% emit as much as 5 billion people

https://makerichpolluterspay.org/climate-equality-report/

Huge expansion of fossil fuels planned, will be very destructive

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/insanity-petrostates-planning-huge-expansion-of-fossil-fuels-says-un-report

"without policy changes, the world will heat up enough by the end of the

century that more than 2 billion people will live in life-threatening hot

climates" Will you be in that area???

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-sounding-alarm-dangerous-problem-123000792.html

World subsidies for fossil fuels reached an all-time high of over $1

TRILLION in 2022, the last year for which data is available. The subsidies

MUST end.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/fossil-fuel-subsidies-must-end/

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