[Coral-List] 2020 bleaching event on Great Barrier Reef
Douglas Fenner
douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Sat Jul 18 20:40:25 UTC 2020
2020 Great Barrier Reef bleaching event is most widespread to date
https://www.ecowatch.com/great-barrier-reef-bleaching-2020-2645655957.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
Cheers, Doug
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Douglas Fenner
Lynker Technologies, LLC, Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
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Consultant
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Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799 USA
"mitigating climate change is the critical wedge to set coral reefs on a
recovery trajectory" Duarte et al 2020 Rebuilding marine life Nature
"Already, more people die <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats.shtml>from
heat-related causes in the U.S. than from all other extreme weather events."
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/624643780/phoenix-tries-to-reverse-its-silent-storm-of-heat-deaths
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
"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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