[Coral-List] hardy corals could survive

[Douglas Fenner]

These corals could survive climate change- and help save the world's coral
reefs

Ocean warming threatens to wipe out corals, but scientists are trying to
protect naturally resilient reefs and are nursing some others back to
health.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03629-7?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=2e838d4a81-briefing-dy-20191127&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-2e838d4a81-43423877


“Unless we curb carbon emissions, none of this is going to make any
difference whatsoever,” says molecular ecologist Iliana Baums.

Cheers,  Doug
-- 
Douglas Fenner
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NOAA Fisheries Service
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How scientists got climate change so wrong
https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBWtJBx?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare

"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

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