[Coral-List] oceanic shark populations have decreased by over 70%
Douglas Fenner
douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 20:32:28 UTC 2021
Shark populations are crashing, with a 'very small window' to avoid
disaster
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/climate/sharks-population-study.html
Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03173-9
Open-access
The situation is similar for coral reef sharks:
Fishing down the largest coral reef species
Check Google Scholar
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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