[Coral-List] Negative Press following ICES J Marine Science Issue on 'Ocean Acidification'

Fundación ICRI Colombia en Pro de los Arrecifes Coralinos icri.colombia at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 12:39:04 EST 2016


Dear Colleagues,

Evaluation and monitoring of coral reefs health at small and larger scales
will provide the true of what is happening in the long-term scenario.
Including these activities in our coral reef research will provide enough
scientific evidence as alert before the "dog is barking aloud" (following
the interesting analogy used by Ove). Coral reef monitoring should not
support in that sense that "*Barking dogs never bite"**. *Meanwhile, the
precautionary principle and scientific facts should guide protection
efforts to avoid local stressors that may exacerbate the global
warming+acidification effect to improve coral reef conservation
effectiveness .

Hope to see you at ICRS,
Nohora Galvis


2016-03-04 10:11 GMT-05:00 Séverine Fourdrilis <
severine.fourdrilis at gmail.com>:

> Dear Richard, dear coral listers,
>
> You say that we have to 'sell' our work to the general public and you are
> right.
> This morning I have read this article
>
> https://theconversation.com/its-not-doom-and-gloom-to-point-out-whats-really-happening-to-coral-reefs-55695
> from Ove Hoegh-Guldberd, in response to the bad press in the Britain's
> Time. He's doing a great work in communicating with the public.
>
> Séverine Fourdrilis
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> 2016-03-04 11:58 GMT+01:00 Richard Dunne <RichardPDunne at aol.com>:
>
> > This week an influential British newspaper, The London Times, published
> > two critical viewpoints of coral ocean acidification research.
> >
> > This stemmed from the publication of the Special Issue on 'Towards a
> > Broader Perspective on Ocean Acidification' in ICES J Marine Science
> > (https://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/content/current ).
> >
> > I have long felt that we have been guilty of 'over egging' this aspect
> > of the global warming debate in the face of very little hard evidence.
> > This 'bad press' is a salutary lesson that we need to be more careful
> > and critical at all stages of these scientific endeavours. Ultimately we
> > have to 'sell' our work to the general public and this illustrates that
> > so far we have not done very well. It has consequences for the general
> > message that coral reefs are under threat.
> >
> > The two articles and snippets from them are (I hope the links work):
> >
> > Scientists ‘are exaggerating carbon threat to marine life’
> >
> >
> http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4702412.ece?shareToken=dd25504126871fc69affa29067a8d764
> > "Claims that coral reefs are doomed because human emissions are making
> > the oceans more acidic have been exaggerated, a review of the science
> > has found".
> >
> > Science is turning back to the dark ages
> >
> >
> http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4705093.ece?shareToken=1c72c372c736752e9b4fce2fd232bab6
> > "Overplaying the threat to coral reefs is just the latest example of
> > ideology distorting research"
> >
> >
> > Richard Dunne
> >
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