[Coral-List] global warming speeding ocean currents

[Douglas Fenner]

Connectivity between reefs depends in part on currents carrying larvae
between reefs.  So the speed of such currents could affect connectivity, as
well as where they go.

Global warming is speeding up Earth's massive ocean currents

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/global-warming-speeding-earth-s-massive-ocean-currents?utm_campaign=news_daily_2020-02-06&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=3196731


Cheers, Doug

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