[Coral-List] Nature magazine's graphs of climate change variables

[Douglas Fenner]

The hard truths of climate change- by the numbers

(relevant to coral reefs since climate change is one of the greatest future
threats to reefs)

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-019-02711-4/index.html
<https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-019-02711-4/index.html?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=093e3be58a-briefing-dy-20200820&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-093e3be58a-43423877>

Cheers,  Doug
-- 
Douglas Fenner
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NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Consultant
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The toxic effects of air pollution are so bad that moving from fossil fuels
to clean energy would pay for itself in health-care savings and
productivity gains
<https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=c9f70ba54f&e=190a62d266>
—
even if climate change didn’t exist.  In the US alone, decarbonization
would save 1.4 MILLION lives in the US alone.  And save $700 Billion a year.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/8/12/21361498/climate-change-air-pollution-us-india-china-deaths

"mitigating climate change is the critical wedge to set coral reefs on a
recovery trajectory"  Duarte et al 2020 Rebuilding marine life Nature

"Already, more people die  <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats.shtml>from
heat-related causes in the U.S. than from all other extreme weather events."


https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/624643780/phoenix-tries-to-reverse-its-silent-storm-of-heat-deaths