[Coral-List] A research paper and a comic

Douglas Fenner douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Mon Dec 30 19:29:36 UTC 2019


Steve,
    Thanks very much for this.  I noticed in the cartoon that on the lower
right of the screen, a link opens up to the article the cartoon is based
on.  I noticed that after the paper's abstract talks about how MPAs are not
helping corals, the last sentence says:

  "If reefs cannot be saved by local actions alone, then it is time to face
reef degradation head-on, by directly addressing anthropogenic climate
change—the root cause of global coral decline."

Spot on.

The cartoon mentioned some MPA's in Fiji that have helped coral.  Those
MPAs were set up by villages with help by Reef Explorer, led by Victor
Bonito.  Reef Explorer is also doing lots of coral restoration there, very
successfully, I've seen it.  They also teach people how to do it.

Cheers,  Doug

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 4:03 AM Steve via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

>
> Two links that might be of interest to some.
>
> Social-environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in
> the Anthropocene
>
>
> https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/files/24053660/Darling_et_al_NEE_final_submission_12June2019.pdf
>
> As coral die, protected areas aren’t enough
>
> COMIC: The reef-builders face larger threats, scientists say. Chief among
> these is warming seas.
>
>
> https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/sustainability/2019/coral-reef-conservation-marine-reserves
>
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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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