[Coral-List] 2019 record year for ocean temperatures
Douglas Fenner
douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Tue Jan 14 20:23:08 UTC 2020
“If you look at the ocean heat content, 2019 is by far the hottest, 2018 is
second, 2017 is third, 2015 is fourth, and then 2016 is fifth,”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/climate/ocean-temperatures-climate-change.html?te=1&nl=science-times&emc=edit_sc_20200114?campaign_id=34&instance_id=15183&segment_id=20307&user_id=a61bfa602a1dd7b19a21dad22e11decb®i_id=7401879420200114
Cheers, Doug
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Douglas Fenner
Lynker Technologies, LLC, Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Consultant
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799 USA
Even 50-year old climate models correctly predicted global warmng
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-50-year-old-climate-models-correctly-predicted-global-warming?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2019-12-06&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=3113276
Greenhouse gas emissions to set new record this year, but rate of growth
shrinks
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/greenhouse-gas-emissions-year-set-new-record-rate-growth-shrinks?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2019-12-06&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=3113276
"Global warming is manifestly the foremost current threat to coral reefs,
and must be addressed by the global community if reefs as we know them will
have any chance to persist." Williams et al, 2019, Frontiers in Marine
Science
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