[Coral-List] NOAA plan to save coral reefs

Douglas Fenner douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Thu Dec 19 08:57:33 UTC 2019


NOAA unveils plan to save coral reefs

https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20191209/noaa-unveils-plan-to-save-coral-reefs?fbclid=IwAR1L8fgev0_h_VnP_Morw3UiuHXnwn_G9DdXBHoW8yxai5weRTxKyHliW6c


The title makes it sound to me like maybe they are proposing to save all
coral reefs.  They are proposing to save 7 little reefs in the Florida
Keys.  Phase 1 will put out Elkhorn, which grows fast and is not subject to
the stony coral tissue loss disease that is currently ravaging Florida
reefs.  But Phase 2 plans to put out several other corals, including Pillar
corals that are subject to that disease, plus "star and brain corals" which
it doesn't say are subject or not.  Doesn't say they have a plan for how to
keep them from catching the disease.

Cheers,  Doug
-- 
Douglas Fenner
Lynker Technologies, LLC, Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Consultant
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

Even 50-year old climate models correctly predicted global warmng
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-50-year-old-climate-models-correctly-predicted-global-warming?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2019-12-06&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=3113276

Greenhouse gas emissions to set new record this year, but rate of growth
shrinks
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/greenhouse-gas-emissions-year-set-new-record-rate-growth-shrinks?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2019-12-06&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=3113276

"Global warming is manifestly the foremost current threat to coral reefs,
and must be addressed by the global community if reefs as we know them will
have any chance to persist."  Williams et al, 2019, Frontiers in Marine
Science


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