[Coral-List] Bleaching in the news

[Douglas Fenner]

El Niño's warmth devastating reef worldwide  (summary is open access,
article is not)


http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6281/15?utm_campaign=email-sci-toc&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=379377

The unprecedented coral bleaching disaster at the Great Barrier Reef,
explained.

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/30/11332636/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching

This is what climate change has done to the Great Barrier Reef

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-photos_us_56f9f1afe4b0143a9b491e6a
?

(I'd argue that it is the natural El Nino event plus climate change that
have done this to the world's reefs.  El Nino comes on top of the warmer
water that global warming has produced.  The two effects add to produce the
very hot water.)

Northern Great Barrier Reef in midst of its worst bleaching event on record..

http://mashable.com/2016/03/29/great-barrier-reef-worst-bleaching/#iC3tpnOF95qG

We've 'fried' the most pristine sections of Australia's Great Barrier Reef

http://www.businessinsider.com/weve-fried-the-most-pristine-sections-of-the-great-barrier-reef-2016-3

Great Barrier Reef bleaching could be final 'wake-up call' for climate
action.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0329/Great-Barrier-Reef-bleaching-could-be-final-wake-up-call-for-climate-action

A global tragedy: coral bleaching now widespread in Australia's Great
Barrier Reef

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/29/widespread_coral_bleaching_in_australia_s_great_barrier_reef.html

Worst known bleaching occurs in Great Barrier Reef.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/samlemonick/2016/03/31/worst-known-bleaching-occurs-in-great-barrier-reef/#2b9f286c1f6d

Cheers,  Doug

-- 
Douglas Fenner
Consultant, corals, coral reefs, coral identification
"have regulator, will travel"
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

phone 1 684 622-7084

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"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.

Solar can power more than 100 times America's current electricity needs,
new report finds.   (and costs have gone down rapidly)

http://www.theclimategroup.org/what-we-do/news-and-blogs/solar-can-power-more-than-100-times-americas-current-electricity-needs-new-report-finds

Record shattering February warmth bakes Alaska, Arctic 18oF

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/13/3759569/record-february-warmth-alaska-arctic/

Sea level is now rising at the fastest rate in 3,000 years.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/sea-levels-are-rising-their-fastest-rate-2000-years?utm_campaign=email-news-latest&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=292592
http://mashable.com/2016/02/22/manmade-sea-level-rise-flooding/#fscPLGedCiqz

website:  http://independent.academia.edu/DouglasFenner

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