[Coral-List] Nuclear Niño

[Steve Mussman]

This falls under the heading “as if we didn’t have enough to worry about”. I hesitate to bring this up, but world events have me thinking about how a regional war involving tactical nuclear weapons might affect coral reefs and other marine ecosystems. Here are some interesting reads on the subject that all of us hope never materializes.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00088-1

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2021/nuclear-war-could-cause-cooling-on-land-but-warming-in-the-oceans/

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL086246

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00794-y

https://armscontrolcenter.org/connections-nuclear-weapons-climate-change-and-russia/

Regards,

Steve Mussman