[Coral-List] abstracts: links to articles

[Douglas Fenner]

Several news items and articles that might be of interest:

Scientists have more depressing news about our coral reefs.  (herbivores
may not save reefs where there are too many nutrients.  Link to original
articles, see video at bottom as well)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scientists-coral-reefs_56687e55e4b009377b236a5b?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

Original article:  Enrichment scale determines herbivore control of primary
producers.   http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-015-3505-1
(not open access, note first author's email)


Marine protected areas miss the boat.  Ray Hilborn.  Science Dec 11  (not
open access)

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6266/1326.1.full?utm_campaign=email-sci-toc&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=146102


Video shows coral reef being destroyed in seconds by cruise ship's anchor.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/video-shows-anchor-destroying-reef_5669a146e4b009377b23fed0?cps=gravity_5043_-32806445364624417

2014 Cruise ship report (report card)

http://www.foe.org/cruise-report-card

How bad for the environment are cruise ships?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl5xYm-0hvo

Cheers,  Doug

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Douglas Fenner
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Join the International Society for Reef Studies.  Membership includes a
subscription to the journal Coral Reefs, and there are discounts for pdf
subscriptions and developing countries.  Check it out!  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.

G20 nations spend $452 billion a year supporting fossil fuels: study.
Support for fossil fuels was four times higher than for renewable energy.

http://news.yahoo.com/g20-nations-spend-452-bn-supporting-fossil-fuels-003713410.html

Exxon and probably other fossil fuel companies have long known that global
warming is real and mostly caused by humans, because their own scientists
did some of the earliest good studies that showed it was true.  But they
decided to fund a denial campaign to protect their profits, which has
worked very well.

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/10/21/prison_for_exxon_execs_calls_grow?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=c6b4701477-Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-c6b4701477-191096773

http://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/fight-misinformation/climate-deception-dossiers-fossil-fuel-industry-memos#.VjRnorerTIU

Climate change could cost trillions more in damage, because of thawing
Arctic permafrost.   (a mere $3-166 Trillion, while even without Arctic
warming, climate change is estimated to cost $326 Trillion globally.  The
entire world economy is only about $72-85 Trillion a year.)

http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2015/09/climate-change-could-cost-trillions-more-damages-because-thawing-arctic-permafrost?utm_campaign=email-news-latest

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