[Coral-List] political arguments on coral-list
Steve Mussman
sealab at earthlink.net
Wed May 28 08:28:10 EDT 2014
Dear Gene,
You don't have to demean Coral-List just because you disagree with a few of
the comments that have recently been posted here. You often chide listers
for "shooting the messenger" and I assume that you would apply that same
approach to the medium of expression as well. I believe that Coral List and
Coral Reefs serve different functions so a comparison is not really in
order, but since you seem to be enthralled with the Journal of the
International Society for Reef Studies I suggest you more closely examine
(and perhaps adopt) some of the central themes of
important papers highlighted there. Here is one that I would highly
recommend: "Climate change and coral reefs: Trojan horse or false
prophecy"? O. Hoegh-Guldberg
( [1]http://www.barrierreef.org/sites/default/files/Ove-2009-Coral-Reefs.pdf
) In it the author concludes . . ." there is little support for the
conclusion that coral reefs will survive atmospheric carbon dioxide levels
of 600â1000 ppm and increases in ocean temperatures of 2â6C. For this
reason, and the fact that we are currently on a pathway headed towards 1,000
ppm and beyond, we must also strive to communicate the extreme urgency of
the situation to the broader scientific and non-science community, and to
urge the international those that have been proposed so far by the
international community and will only come about if governments understand
the dire circumstances that the world faces if we lose coral reefs and other
critically important parts of the biosphere. Hopefully, a clear, objective
and coherent voice from the coral reef community will be listened to. We can
only hope". You can choose to become a part of that clear and coherent
voice or maintain the role of skeptic, but don't become embittered by those
who are unconvinced and wish to challenge your opinions. Steve
-----Original Message-----
>From: Eugene Shinn
>Sent: May 27, 2014 1:46 PM
>To: "coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov"
>Subject: [Coral-List] political arguments on coral-list
>
>Darn, I went off on my boat for 4 days and missed all stimulation folks
>on the list have been having. Good to see the list is now up to around
>8,000 readers. Any one have an idea of how many subscribe to CORAL
>REEFS? compared to the coral list.
>Seems there are some good reasons for publishing on the coral-list
>especially if you are not worrying about tenure.. It works at warp speed
>where as CORAL REEFS takes months and there are all those reviewers and
>revisions to deal with. Gene
>
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References
1. http://www.barrierreef.org/sites/default/files/Ove-2009-Coral-Reefs.pdf
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