[Coral-List] new "business as usual" projections for climate change
Douglas Fenner
douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Tue Feb 4 22:42:00 UTC 2020
As we all know, global warming and acidification are huge threats to the
future of corals. Here are a discussion of some new insights into what is
probable, if we don't take action. Not quite as bad as had been projected,
but still a "disaster" if we don't act.
Cheers, Doug
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00177-3?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=ee09f96136-briefing-dy-20200130&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-ee09f96136-43423877
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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
"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
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
"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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