One of my students (Chris Doropoulos) noticed the onset of coral bleaching up at Heron Island. Here is Chris’s report (and photographs attached):
We arrived to Heron Island on the 5th of February and did a quick snorkel from the jetty to the shipwreck that [...]
There is a great (free!) new iphone app for John Cook’s awesome SkepticalScience website. It lists common denier canards and explains why they are rubbish (in a polite, rationale way). It is the perfect app for those of you with denier relatives (check), friends (check), facebook aquatances (check) and grouchy-retired-exoilindustrygeologist-colleagues (check) who think [...]
Published in the Sunday Morning Herald, Feb 17, 2010
Climate change sceptics are really making my unborn grandchildren angry. Just when we thought the science was in and we could start focusing on action to avoid the massive environmental, social and economic costs of global warming, along come the climate-science deniers to muddy the waters.
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There is an interesting discussion on the coallist server about the new petition to list 82 more corals that illuminates the variety of perspectives on this topic:
On February 10, 2010, NOAA Fisheries Service published a Federal
Register Notice finding the agency will evaluate the status of 82
species of coral under the Endangered Species [...]
Another amazing video by Peter Sinclair on why localized cold air and high snowfall does not mean the earth has stopped warming. Also see this.
A new NOAA preliminary report (State of the Climate Global Analysis January 2010) indicates January 2010 was one of the warmest on record. Surely, this will convince AGW deniers they were wrong to argue the mid-Atlanctic snowstorms are evidence global warming has ended. Hat tip to Joe Romm, see his coverage here.
Speaking of the [...]
Todd LaJeunesse from Penn State has an interesting new paper out about zooxanthellae diversity and coral acclimation to ocean warming. Also see the great video of Todd talking about this work here.
Penn State researchers and their international collaborators have discovered a diversity of corals harboring unusual species of symbiotic algae in the warm [...]
For those of us who work with coral, NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch is quite useful. It’s a online tool for tracking global sea surface temperature data in real-time. But what about temperatures, say, a quarter mile beneath the surface? There are no user-friendly websites or pretty maps for tracking anomalous temperatures in deeper waters. A recent population increase and geographic spread of the deep-water Humbolt Squid gives reason for new concern about the changing mesopelagic world.
Unlike the growing climate debates, the anthropogenic blame for ocean plastics is undeniable and disturbing. While many scientists are going to the front lines defending climate change, other global phenomena of environmental change are being left in the periphery.
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