[Coral-List] Hawaii expected to have worst bleaching ever; bleaching begins
Douglas Fenner
douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Sat Sep 12 02:42:35 EDT 2015
Scientists expect warmer ocean temperatures to lead to Hawaii's worst coral
bleaching ever.
http://www.usnews.com/news/science/news/articles/2015/09/11/scientists-expect-hawaiis-worst-coral-bleaching-ever
Cheers, Doug
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Douglas Fenner
Contractor with Ocean Associates, Inc.
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799 USA
phone 1 684 622-7084
Join the International Society for Reef Studies. Membership includes a
subscription to the journal Coral Reefs, there are discounts for pdf
subscriptions and developing countries. www.fit.edu/isrs/
"Belief in climate change is optional, participation is not."- Jim Beever.
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts."-
Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Energy policy: push renewables to spur carbon pricing. (the world
subsidizes fossil fuels a half Trillion dollars a year!)
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v525/n7567/full/nature14876.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20150904&spMailingID=49465812&spUserID=MjA1NTA3MjA0OQS2&spJobID=760401953&spReportId=NzYwNDAxOTUzS0
5 trillion tons of ice lost since 2002. (that's trillion with a "T".
Check the steady loss in the graphs.)
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/09/03/ice_loss_greenland_and_antarctica_lost_5_trillion_tons_since_1992.html
Historically unprecedented global glacier decline in the early 21st century.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/igsoc/jog/pre-prints/content-ings_jog_15j017
website: http://independent.academia.edu/DouglasFenner
blog: http://ocean.si.edu/blog/reefs-american-samoa-story-hope
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