[Coral-List] Ruth Gates

Douglas Fenner douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Sat Nov 3 04:03:14 UTC 2018


In memory of Ruth Gates, the optimist who believed in saving corals.

The fight for corals loses its great champion.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/optimist-who-believed-saving-corals/574240/

open-access.

Cheers, Doug

-- 
Douglas Fenner
Ocean Associates, Inc. Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Consultant
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

IPCC says limiting global warming to 1.5C will require drastic action.  Coral
reefs would almost entirely disappear with 2 degrees of warming, with just
10–30% of existing reefs surviving at 1.5 °C.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06876-2?utm_source=briefing-dy&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=briefing&utm_content=20181009

Key climate panel, citing impending crisis, urges crash effort to reduce
emissions.  Coral reefs are projected to decline 70% to 90% at 1.5°C, but
at 2°C, 99% of reefs would be ravaged.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/key-climate-panel-citing-impending-crisis-urges-crash-effort-reduce-emissions?utm_campaign=news_daily_2018-10-08&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=2416592

Major UN report says climate change is worse than first thought.  Even 1.5C
could cause damage that could run as high as $54 trillion.  (annual US GDP
is US$20 trillion, China and EU should be roughly similar, 2014 world GWP
was US$76 trillion, Purchasing Power Parity was US$107 trillion.)
https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/08/major-un-report-climate-change-worse/?yptr=yahoo


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