[Coral-List] ocean slicks host larvae; climate change worse than we thought
Douglas Fenner
douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Sun Feb 7 20:43:52 UTC 2021
Hidden world just below the surface
Surface slicks Include reef fish and invertebrate larvae
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/011265358e924da3bb8497d9a78d46ac
Surface slicks are pelagic nurseries for diverse ocean fauna
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81407-0
Climate reality check 2020
It is much worse than we thought, a huge threat to coral reefs and humanity
https://www.climaterealitycheck.net/flipbook
Cheers, Doug
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Douglas Fenner
Lynker Technologies, LLC, Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Coral Reef Consulting
PO Box 997390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799-6298 USA
Social cost of carbon emissions much higher than previous estimates
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/trump-downplayed-costs-carbon-pollution-s-about-change
A German initiative seeks to curb global emissions of a climate
super-pollutant
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30122020/chemical-plant-nitrous-oxide-climate-warming-emissions/
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>
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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
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