[Coral-List] Maui island, Hawaii fights to continue releasing nutrients on reefs

[Phillip Dustan]

Worse than herding cats....
And
You'd have to fight NOAA and Interior  to the death.


On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 10:14 AM Steve Mussman <sealab at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Dear Phil & Doug,
>
>  Wouldn’t it be a giant step in the right direction if coral reef
> scientists in the USA would get together (like their counterparts in the
> Australian Coral Reef Society) and issue a clear and unambiguous consensus
> statement describing ways in which that $160 million allotted for the
> proposed “Restoring Resilient Reefs Act of 2019” could be put to better
> use?
>
> Regards,
> Steve
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Aug 15, 2019, at 6:12 PM, Phillip Dustan via Coral-List <
> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
> >
> > Gee, Maybe some of that 160+ million could be spent on something useful?
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 4:57 PM Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <
> > coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
> >
> >> Speaking of nutrients on reefs,
> >>
> >> Maui is taking this clean water fight all the way- some say too far
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/08/maui-is-taking-this-clean-water-legal-fight-all-the-way-some-say-too-far/
> >>
> >>
> >> Surely it is because they don't want to spend the money to clean it up.
> >> Hawaii has no excuse in my opinion, it is a rich part of a rich country.
> >>
> >> 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
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> > --
> >
> >
> >
> > Phillip Dustan PhD
> > Charleston SC  29424
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> > "When we try to pick out anything by itself
> > we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords
> > that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe. "
> > *                                         John Muir 1869*
> >
> > *Bali Coral Bleaching 2016 video*
> >
> > *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxOfLTnPSUo
> > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxOfLTnPSUo>*
> > TEDx Charleston on saving coral reefs
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwENBNrfKj4
> > Google Scholar Citations:
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Phillip Dustan PhD
Charleston SC  29424
843-953-8086 office
843-224-3321 (mobile)

"When we try to pick out anything by itself
we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords
that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe. "
*                                         John Muir 1869*

*Bali Coral Bleaching 2016 video*

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxOfLTnPSUo
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxOfLTnPSUo>*
TEDx Charleston on saving coral reefs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwENBNrfKj4
Google Scholar Citations:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HCwfXZ0AAAAJ