[Coral-List] China's island building is destroying reefs
Douglas Fenner
douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Sat Sep 26 02:27:30 EDT 2015
"Land creation and dredging in the South China Sea come at the expense of
corals and fisheries."
Science Sept 25, 2015 Vol 349: 1434
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6255/1434.full?utm_campaign=email-sci-toc
Not open access.
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.
Climate change could cost trillions more in damage, because of thawing
Arctic permafrost. (a mere $3-166 Trillion, while even without Arctic
warming, climate change is estimated to cost $326 Trillion globally. The
entire world economy is only about $72-85 Trillion a year.)
http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2015/09/climate-change-could-cost-trillions-more-damages-because-thawing-arctic-permafrost?utm_campaign=email-news-latest
Global warming 'hiatus' trashed by new study.
http://www.rtcc.org/2015/09/17/global-warming-hiatus-trashed-by-new-study/
King Coal and the queen of subsidies
(total subsidies for coal worldwide exceed $3 Trillion a year.)
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6254/1286.full?utm_campaign=email-sci-toc
website: http://independent.academia.edu/DouglasFenner
blog: http://ocean.si.edu/blog/reefs-american-samoa-story-hope
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