[Coral-List] Areas of Potential Bleaching in Caribbean

[Laurie RIchardson]

I vote yes~   Laurie Richardson

Richard Grigg wrote:

> Coral listers,
>
>          I think warming is a better term to describe temperature rise in
> the ocean than is heating.  And it is less inflammatory than heating, and
> it fits better with the opposite effect of cooling, and it is entrenched in
> the literature.  I vote we keep it.
>
>                                                  Rick Grigg
>                                                  Dept. of Oceanography,
> Univ. of Hi.
>
> At 05:27 PM 9/26/2006 -0400, Steven Miller wrote:
> >Why don't we coral-listers start using the word "heating" instead of
> >warming, as suggested by James Lovelock and probably others too.  It's a
> >simple change that better describes the negative consequences of the
> >phenomenon.  Warming sounds like a good thing.  Heating, maybe not.
> >
> >Mark, maybe you can get NOAA to adopt this terminology?
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Steven
> >
> >Mark Eakin wrote:
> >
> > >Warming continues in the area around the northern Lesser Antilles.
> > >While it looks like the Florida Keys has probably dodged the bullet
> > >this year, there is a strong potential for low-level bleaching in the
> > >northeastern Caribbean this year.  We have begun to accumulate Degree
> > >Heating Weeks in most of this region.  The good news is that we have
> > >only now reached the level of temperature stress that we had reached
> > >by early August in 2005.  That means that it is highly unlikely that
> > >we will accumulate substantial thermal stress before temperatures
> > >begin to cool.
> > >
> > >Cheers,
> > >Mark
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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