[Coral-List] climate change worse than we thought

Alina Szmant alina at cisme-instruments.com
Mon Feb 8 18:23:29 UTC 2021


How many people on Coral List read the article in the 3rd link Doug shared, and what is your hope for the future of coral reefs and Earth organisms in general (including human societies) after digesting the information presented?

https://www.climaterealitycheck.net/flipbook


Dr. Alina M. Szmant,  CEO
CISME Instruments LLC


-------- Original message --------
From: Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
Date: 2/7/21 4:48 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: coral list <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
Subject: [Coral-List] ocean slicks host larvae; climate change worse than we thought


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>
—
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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