[Coral-List] Hawaii expected to have worst bleaching ever; bleaching begins

Keven Reed reedkc at comcast.net
Mon Sep 14 17:36:12 EDT 2015


Concurrent with your posting, Doug:  AP article from Honolulu appeared in Sunday issue of Jacksonville, Florida The Times-Union, page A-13, September 13, 2015.  Title of the local newspaper article is: 
Warmer temperatures causing massive Hawaii coral bleaching , and Ruth Gates is quoted. 
  
Warmest regards to the coral-list, 
Keven 
  
Keven C. Reed 
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----- Original Message -----

From: "Douglas Fenner" <douglasfennertassi at gmail.com> 
To: "coral list" <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> 
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2015 2:42:35 AM 
Subject: [Coral-List] Hawaii expected to have worst bleaching ever;        bleaching begins 

Scientists expect warmer ocean temperatures to lead to Hawaii's worst coral 
bleaching ever. 

http://www.usnews.com/news/science/news/articles/2015/09/11/scientists-expect-hawaiis-worst-coral-bleaching-ever 

Cheers, Doug 

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  "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts."- 
Daniel Patrick Moynihan. 

Energy policy: push renewables to spur carbon pricing.  (the world 
subsidizes fossil fuels a half Trillion dollars a year!) 

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v525/n7567/full/nature14876.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20150904&spMailingID=49465812&spUserID=MjA1NTA3MjA0OQS2&spJobID=760401953&spReportId=NzYwNDAxOTUzS0 

5 trillion tons of ice lost since 2002.  (that's trillion with a "T". 
Check the steady loss in the graphs.) 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/09/03/ice_loss_greenland_and_antarctica_lost_5_trillion_tons_since_1992.html 

Historically unprecedented global glacier decline in the early 21st century.. 

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/igsoc/jog/pre-prints/content-ings_jog_15j017 



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