Whilst the 1986 El Niño event began to dissipate across the eastern Pacific regions in mid 1987, the elevated sea surface temperatures remained in the central and western pacific until the early months of 1988. Associated with the 1986 El Niño was the widespread bleaching of reef corals throughout the Caribbean region, which [...]
Long Droughts, Rising Seas Predicted Despite Future CO2 Curbs
Washington Post (27th Jan) – Greenhouse gas levels currently expected by mid-century will produce devastating long-term droughts and a sea-level rise that will persist for 1,000 years regardless of how well the world curbs future emissions of carbon dioxide, an international team of scientists [...]
A fluff piece in more ways than one! The Institute For Figuring have been developing the ‘hyperbolic crochet coral reef’, a collective of crochet coral reef organisms knitted by hundreds of people across the globe. By altering the style of crochet through differing algorithms, [...]
Remember the last time you tried to reason with someone who constantly took your words out of context in an attempt to argue an opposite futile point? If that left you smiling politely while shaking your head, you probably felt like me after reading the article “Coral Reefs and Climate Change: Unproved Assumptions” [...]
Leading climate scientist Bill Hare has published the first emissions pathway to date that brings expected global warming beneath 1°C, albeit after peaking beneath 2°C and on the scale of centuries.
This is an immensely significant research topic for coral reefs as a rise in mean global temperature of 1°C appears to be the highest [...]
Using a submersible robot to penetrate depths of up to 4000m, a joint US-Australian team have reported some extraordinary organisms off the coast of Tasmania.
“Our sampling documented the deepest known Australian fauna, including a bizarre carnivorous sea squirt, sea spiders and giant sponges, and previously unknown marine communities dominated by gooseneck barnacles [...]
From the organization that brought you:
“35 Inconvenient Truths: The errors in Al Gore’s movie” “Proved -There is no climate crisis” “Greenhouse Warming? What Greenhouse Warming?”
comes another ‘bona fide’ report ( “CO2, Global Warming and Coral Reefs: Prospects for the Future“) aimed at debunking the widely respected view among the scientific community [...]
Coinciding with the end of the International Year of the Reef, Gerd Haegele, a biologist and film maker from Germany has released an educational DVD entitled “The Coral Reef Ecosystem”. In Gerd’s own words:
We are convinced that while it is important to raise awareness for these issues in industrialized countries, [...]
The Australian Bureau of Meterology released the annual Australian climate statement for 2008 last week. Another warm year for Australia, 0.41°C above the standard 1961-90 average…
Overview
The mean annual temperature across Australia for 2008 was the 14th warmest on record (0.41°C above normal). A warm year was recorded in most regions, apart [...]
There is quite of bit of federal legislative action happening in the US that bodes well for marine conservation and coral reefs. Rick MacPherson has a nice roundup at his always excellent Maleria, Bedbugs, Sea lice and Sunsets blog.
Also check out the Saipan Blog, for a great first hand account of [...]
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