[Coral-List] extinction report

[Douglas Fenner]

Humans are driving one million species to extinction.  (Nature)

www.ipbes.net/sites/default/files/downloads/spm_unedited_advance_for_posting_htn.pdf?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=ef727151d6-briefing-dy-20190507&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-ef727151d6-43423877

open-access

The 40 page summary of the report can be downloaded here:

www.ipbes.net/sites/default/files/downloads/spm_unedited_advance_for_posting_htn.pdf?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=ef727151d6-briefing-dy-20190507&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-ef727151d6-43423877

open-access

I note that it says "Reefs are particularly vulnerable to climate change
and are projected to decline to 10-30 per cent of former cover at 1.5°C
warming and to less than 1 per cent at 2°C warming."  (note that we are
currently on a course to have at least 3.2°C warming, perhaps much more)

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

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

Nations falling short of emissions cuts set by Paris climate pact, analysis
finds
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/nations-falling-short-emissions-cuts-set-paris-climate-pact-analysis-finds?utm_campaign=news_daily_2018-11-28&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=2515903