[Coral-List] bleaching weakens coral skeletons

[Douglas Fenner]

Forget coral bleaching.  Warming oceans are killing reefs and dissolving
their skeletons

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/forget-coral-bleaching-warming-oceans-are-killing-reefs-and-dissolving-their-skeletons


open-access

Rapid coral decay is associated with marine heatwave mortality events on
reefs

  https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30804-8

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

A call to climate action  (Science editorial)
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6443/807?utm_campaign=toc_sci-mag_2019-05-30&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=2840296

New book "The Uninhabitable Earth"  First sentence: "It is much, much worse
than you think."
Read first (short) chapter open access:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/read-a-chapter-from-the-uninhabitable-earth-a-dire-warning-on-climate-change

Want a Green New Deal?  Here's a better one.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-a-green-new-deal-heres-a-better-one/2019/02/24/2d7e491c-36d2-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term=.a3fc8337cbf8