Dear Mike, Thanks! To be sure this is a scale dependent issue, and coral reefs are the most spatially heterogeneous of all ecosystems! I'm only referring to...
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Michael Risk
riskmj@...
Mar 25, 2013 4:18 pm
Hi Tom. Yeah, reefs need debris chutes...have to get rid of all those bioerosion byproducts somehow. The Lescinsky etc papers to which I referred would have...
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Thomas Goreau
tomgoreau
Mar 29, 2013 9:54 pm
An important paper just published by Chou, Chiang, Lan, Chung, Liao, & Lee, 2013, Increase in the range between wet and dry season precipitation, Nature...
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Douglas Fenner
douglasfenner
Mar 30, 2013 4:31 pm
     Right. The production of carbonate sand by reefs usually produces debris chutes or sand channels. They are part of the geologic structure...
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Douglas Fenner
douglasfenner
Mar 30, 2013 4:49 pm
Here's info on subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. Subsidies help them compete against renewable energy, making renewable energy artificially...
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Thomas Goreau
tomgoreau
Mar 30, 2013 6:08 pm
Dear Doug, I made very clear that I was talking ONLY about live coral cover on hard ground, and not including sand and mud channels and patches where most...
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Thomas Goreau
tomgoreau
Mar 30, 2013 6:27 pm
Dear Doug, You are arguing not with me, but with your own misinterpretation of what you incorrectly claim I said! The only place where we really seem to...
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Thomas Goreau
tomgoreau
Mar 30, 2013 6:40 pm
Dear Amanda, I wanted to send your video of that reef with essentially 100% live coral cover in Indonesia to a colleague who claims that no reef, anywhere, has...
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Douglas Fenner
douglasfenner
Mar 31, 2013 3:18 pm
Gee, for someone who goes crazy accusing me of putting words in your mouth, I'd think you'd be more careful about immediately turning around and putting words...
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Thomas Goreau
tomgoreau
Mar 31, 2013 3:43 pm
It's the same sort of error you made, that was a joke by the way, I know you are normally more careful than that, and so am I! ... Thomas J. Goreau, PhD ...
Thanks, Doug, this is another of those complicated and poorly understood feedbacks that are not well described in the models. As the Antarctic Ice melts, the...
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Thomas Goreau
tomgoreau
Apr 4, 2013 4:43 pm
Thanks, Javid! This is the kind of place I have seen many times all over the world (but which were much more common in the past), which I call "essentially...
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David Wheeler
davidwheeler@...
Apr 4, 2013 5:20 pm
Interesting article. Depressing comments!!! Perhaps we don't need Gene quite so much as I thought, just look at the comments on any such scientific article...
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Thomas Goreau
tomgoreau
Apr 4, 2013 9:11 pm
It is clear that Jim Hendee is really exasperated about all this discussion on the coral list about what to do about climate change and is very eager to cut it...
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AP
mail@...
Apr 5, 2013 1:13 pm
PRESS RELEASE The American Grants and Loans Catalog is now available. Our new and revised 2013 edition contains more than 2800 financial programs, subsidies,...
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Ed Blume
edblume
Apr 5, 2013 1:21 pm
I'll posted an invitation to join this listserve on coralreef. Ed Blume Moderator...
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Ed Blume
edblume
Apr 8, 2013 2:56 pm
From Science Daily: "A new study has found that pollution from fine particles in the air -- mainly the result of burning coal or volcanic eruptions -- can...
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Douglas Fenner
douglasfenner
Apr 9, 2013 2:57 pm
Thanks! Interesting. Shading and cooling. Sounds to me like something that could be helpful to corals during a bleaching event, no? Not mentioned. ...
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Douglas Fenner
douglasfenner
Apr 9, 2013 10:48 pm
Two articles published in peer-reviewed journals to bring to your attention. First you may be familiar with. De'ath et al 2012 reported the latest results...
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Thomas Goreau
tomgoreau
Apr 10, 2013 12:35 am
In my view these "long-term" studies started way too late (only in the 1970 and 1980s!) after most of the corals were gone. I have it on the authority of Sir...
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Thomas Goreau
tomgoreau
Apr 18, 2013 3:22 pm
... Thomas J. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance President, Biorock International Corp. Honorary Research Fellow, Discovery Bay Marine...
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Thomas Goreau
tomgoreau
Apr 24, 2013 12:04 am
Dear Bill, Dear Bill, Your question to Steve below cuts to the heart of the issue. The person who in my view has the best ecological observations of impact of...
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Thomas Goreau
tomgoreau
Apr 24, 2013 11:03 pm
Fred's video and observations are so important, and so at variance with the knee-jerk bandwagon science approach on the coral-list that I'm forwarding his...
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Steve Kolian
stevekolian@...
Apr 25, 2013 8:38 pm
You may be interested in the following article and companion video. BP/Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon (MC-252) crude oil was found in hetrotrophic corals...
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Thomas Goreau
tomgoreau
May 6, 2013 2:31 pm
There has been a cottage industry of band-wagon fad science claiming that ocean acidification is a threat to coral reefs. In fact they will be the last part of...
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Thomas Goreau
tomgoreau
May 7, 2013 1:45 pm
April 28 - May 4, 2013 399.59 ppm Probably one of the last times that you will witness a CO2 level below 400 ppm. It will fall back a little bit during the...
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C Jessen
jessen.christian@...
May 7, 2013 3:54 pm
You can find the development of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere on the webpage of the longest measuring fieldstation in Mauna Loa, Hawaii ...
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Thomas Goreau
tomgoreau
May 9, 2013 2:13 am
Dear Steve, While I now see lion fish everywhere in the Caribbean, I'm too busy looking at the corals and algae to pay them much attention in terms of who they...
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Thomas Goreau
tomgoreau
May 10, 2013 5:27 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22486153 Thomas J. Goreau President, Global Coral Reef Alliance President, Biorock International Corp. ...
