[Coral-List] Coral scientists for climate action
Risk, Michael
riskmj at mcmaster.ca
Sat Aug 29 15:24:16 UTC 2020
Good day.
I was catching up on the news on a rainy morning. Roger Cohn's piece in
yesterday's NYT, about how a lie told three times becomes truth. (He
was referring to politics in our southern neighbour, but we can't talk
about that here.) Then onto the statement by the Premier of Ontario
that, in order to slow the spread of Covid-19, university students
should refrain from partying: another example of how the shrewdest
politicians can be stunningly blind.
Your post contains two misconceptions/errors. You have been called on
these before, and I wish you would stop.
You state that global warming is "the major cause of coral reef
decline." This is obviously not so. Read Gardner 2002 again. Talk to
Phil.
You then again pivot to the "overpopulation" meme, which is also
untrue. About a year ago Nicole Crain told you "Alina, there is some
great literature I think you might consider reading to help you better
understand the forces behind environmental destruction."
It's not people "over there" doing it. It's people right here.
Mike
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Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Coral scientists for climate action
Dear All:
Covid is being attributed with less fossil fuel emissions because
people aren't traveling as much. But here in US I see people sitting in
their cars wirh engine running for hours waitingfir doctors and vet
appointments, food pickup, etc, even large vehicles and trucks. I am
guessing that millions of people doing this everyday is going to add
up and become a new source of CO2 emissions at least in US. Anyone
calculating how much this would contribute to globo warming, the major
direct cause of coral reef decline ( other than too many.humans on
Earth, the root cause)?
Alina
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From: Franziska Elmer via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
Date: 8/28/20 11:43 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
Subject: [Coral-List] Coral scientists for climate action
Dear Coral list,
Our coral reefs are one of the 9 Tipping points that could be triggered
by climate change. We could lose them forever. Our reefs are projected
to be lost almost completely at 2 C warming, a threshold that will be
reached within the life times of many of us unless there is more global
action on climate change. Currently we are looking forward to a career
full of tears and despair, where we work endlessly to help save our
reefs while not enough action is done globally to halt climate change.
The money spoken for recession relief linked to the COVID-19 crisis
will likely be our last change to turn the ship around and create world
were global warming does not surpass 1.5 C or 2 C
([1]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0883-0). The industries
supported by this spending will likely be the industries we are locked
into for the next 30 years. That is why speaking up about climate
change and putting it into the media is super important right now.
Do you want more climate action? Then join us! We want to form a group
of coral reef scientists that are highly concern about climate change
and want to demand urgent action through creative
displays/dance/theater/art that will be held on the same day all around
the world. The date will likely be in early November.
If you are interested in being involved in this in any form (organizer,
local participant, spreading the word) then please fill out this form
and we will be in touch with you soon!
[2]https://forms.gle/pHraacA5iNJpifUN7
Best,
Dr. Franziska Elmer and Elinor Nadir (PhD candidate)
Franziskaelmer at hotmail.com
Www.franziskaelmer.weebly.com
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