[Coral-List] global threats drive coral declines of world reefs, not local impacts
Risk, Michael
riskmj at mcmaster.ca
Sun Feb 11 17:20:46 UTC 2024
Doug, you should read that paper carefully. Absorb the statistical
manipulations and the assumptions.
Compare that paper with the-literally-100's that have shown the
contrary.
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I just discovered this article. They found that coral cover
does
not correlate with local human populations, a proxy for local human
impacts. That implies that world coral declines are primarily driven
by
global threats, not local threats. There are obvious local impacts on
corals that we do need to address, of course, the evidence of that is
abundant. But for the world's corals as a whole, not only is global
warming crucial to reduce, but it is nearly the whole ball game. The
results for macroalgae are similar, there is a statistically
significant
effect on both by population due to the large sample size, but for
both, it
is tiny and so ecologically unimportant.
They point out that it is very different with reef fish, local
human effects are the dominant impacts on reef fish populations, with
loads
of evidence it correlates with distance from humans, distance to large
markets, closed vs open fishing areas, etc. And of course, loss of
coral
and rugosity also reduces fish. So the results of this study are
specific
to corals and macroalgae and largely don't extend to fish.
Bruno, J.F. and Valdivia, A. 2016. Coral reef degradation is not
correlated with local human population density. Scientific Reports 6:
29778, 7pp.
[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/srep29778 open-access
Cheers, Doug
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Costanza, R. 2023. To build a better world, stop chasing economic
growth.
Nature 624: 519-521.
[2]https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04029-8
Fossil fuel air pollution kills 5 million people world-wide per year
[3]https://www.yahoo.com/news/research-shows-disturbing-between-million
s-200000257.html
World's richest 1% emit as much as 5 billion people
[4]https://makerichpolluterspay.org/climate-equality-report/
Huge expansion of fossil fuels planned, will be very destructive
[5]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/insanity-petrost
ates-planning-huge-expansion-of-fossil-fuels-says-un-report
"without policy changes, the world will heat up enough by the end of
the
century that more than 2 billion people will live in life-threatening
hot
climates" Will you be in that area???
[6]https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-sounding-alarm-dangerous-probl
em-123000792.html
World subsidies for fossil fuels reached an all-time high of over $1
TRILLION in 2022, the last year for which data is available. The
subsidies
MUST end.
[7]https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/fossil-fuel-subsid
ies-must-end/
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References
1. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep29778
2. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04029-8
3. https://www.yahoo.com/news/research-shows-disturbing-between-millions-200000257.html
4. https://makerichpolluterspay.org/climate-equality-report/
5. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/insanity-petrostates-planning-huge-expansion-of-fossil-fuels-says-un-report
6. https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-sounding-alarm-dangerous-problem-123000792.html
7. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/fossil-fuel-subsidies-must-end/
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