[Coral-List] I could not stand by on Earth Day

[Roger Griffis - NOAA Federal]

Well said Peter - unfortunately so true.

With sadness for our precious planet and all things this Earth Day 🌎

Roger

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On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 8:12 PM Peter Sale via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> Hi,
> I watched And scanned numerous media reports on the current global
> bleaching event. Finally, on Earth Day, I realized I could not stand idly
> by.  The real message from the 2024 global bleaching event is NOT that
> corals are once again bleaching around the world. It is that this has been
> happening since the 1980s and the reef science community has been doing its
> best to get the seriousness of the situation out there. BUT, the media are
> NOT conveying that message. They are stuck on bleaching events as a series
> of one-off events that are terribly sad, but just another nature story.
>
> Over the last 30 years, we have failed to rein in our use of fossil fuels
> and the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is much higher than before.
> For all our talk, and even after reef scientists got IPCC to project a 99%
> loss of reef corals by 2100 if we ONLY kept warming to +2.0C instead of
> +1.5C, the world continues to refuse to get the point. We are trashing the
> planet and coral reefs will be likely the first ecosystem to be erased.
>
> The short post is at https://www.petersalebooks.com/?p=3515
> Happy Earth Day listers.
>
> Peter Sale
> University of Windsor
> sale at uwindsor.ca<mailto:sale at uwindsor.ca>
> www.petersalebooks.com<http://www.petersalebooks.com/>
>
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