[Coral-List] heat wave on the Great Barrier Reef
Douglas Fenner
douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Tue Mar 31 23:46:00 UTC 2020
Australia's record heat means another blow to Great Barrier Reef
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/world/australia/bleaching-great-barrier-reef.html?campaign_id=34&emc=edit_sc_20200331&instance_id=17208&nl=science-times®i_id=74018794&segment_id=23391&te=1&user_id=a61bfa602a1dd7b19a21dad22e11decb
Cheers, Doug
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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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