Brazil is facing a severe coral bleaching event due to warm waters damaging reefs in the country's largest marine reserve, threatening tourism and fishing revenues. The world is experiencing a fourth mass bleaching event affecting corals, with a top scientist emphasizing the need to address greenhouse gas emissions to save coral reefs.
A small team of researchers analyzed how local economies have responded to the past 40 years of warming and projected those effects forward to 2050. They find that we’re already committed to warming that will see the growth of the global economy undercut by 20 percent. https://t.co/p3QtuUvrfd
Extreme heat in 2023 linked to drastic slump in growth of marine life https://t.co/N9VnpOLHye
Misleading: There were no category 3, 4 or 5 cyclones on the Great Barrier Reef this summer. Crown-of-thorn starfish numbers are at a low ebb on the vast majority of reefs. Only 1 major disturbance mattered in 2024 - unprecedented heat stress due to anthropogenic heating https://t.co/tLjTCQwqkB
Heat stress is plunging the world’s #coralreefs into crisis https://t.co/VhzupJA6Sg
Lethal levels of heat exposure are killing corals along 80% of the length of the Great Barrier Reef, and we have never seen anything like that. https://t.co/Be7gyEQMVt
But, above all, urgent action to curb the CAUSES of anthropogenic climate change is needed to save the world’s coral reefs. https://t.co/9vwuGrki0T
Global Warming Of 3 Degrees May Cost World 10% Of GDP: Study https://t.co/0ErfUK46aG https://t.co/xqSFIbQRHJ
“By the middle of the century, global emissions from plastic production could triple to account for one-fifth of the Earth’s remaining carbon budget, an analysis has found.” https://t.co/rCooDxYfWn
Plastics industry heats world 4 times as much as air travel, report finds https://t.co/ckSuFZVG4m
New LBNL study finds that even if every other source of GHG emissions fell to zero tomorrow, on current growth rates, "plastic production alone would completely consume the global carbon budget as early as 2060 and no later than 2083." https://t.co/rzdhJWNXWQ
Just to be sure you catch the vital second part of @dwallacewells's post below on this important paper on The economic commitment of climate change, here it is: "What the paper says is that those damages are now locked in *regardless* of emissions pathways. The cost of net-zero… https://t.co/EH0O0gsS5O https://t.co/YfIMYyMuqm
Corals are just the first and most visible. Many, if not most, scientists that work on restoration and adaptation of species vulnerable to climate change are shying away from the real issue. If we don't stop emissions, your work will be for nothing. https://t.co/ayi7zy3Vj9
“Although coral restoration efforts may be able to save tiny pockets of coral reef in a few select areas, the only real solution for coral reefs now is a rapid phase out of fossil fuels.” https://t.co/OVgEmrB0Lr
NEW: Top coral scientist says the only way to save dying reefs is "a rapid phase out of fossil fuels" "No amount of tinkering with corals—attempting to make so-called super corals—is going to save the world’s coral reefs" https://t.co/4IJq2L6Tc7
Obstructionists say taking urgent climate action would be too expensive - because they assume that taking no action costs nothing In reality, inaction so far will cost ONE FIFTH of global income by 2050 Ending fossil fuels is the cheapest and least disruptive option we have https://t.co/cNXvGlAfch
A lot of folks are sharing this harrowing estimate of the economic impacts of warming (19% reduction in global incomes by 2050, amounting to $38 trillion in annual damages) to say decarbonization would be cheaper. But that isn’t what the paper says (1/2) https://t.co/FiPbvD3VDc
Coral reefs can't keep up with climate change. So scientists are speeding up evolution https://t.co/7Oep5jA0bQ via @lesommer & @ryanjamescliff
Plastics industry heats world four times as much as air travel, report finds https://t.co/lGwcgMXoIh
The world’s coral reefs are in really bad shape right now. We spoke to a top coral scientist about how to fix it — and contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, she said the answer is not “super corals” https://t.co/4IJq2L6Tc7
Plastic-production emissions could triple to one-fifth of Earth’s carbon budget – report https://t.co/vBXiaRmPhj
The costs of climate change are SIX TIMES the costs of reducing emissions, says a new study: https://t.co/akGyRMxALq
GOLDSTEIN: Exaggerated claims about climate change costing us money, report says https://t.co/p8wJtjHwDr https://t.co/tu8UjdY8Kj
The Great Barrier is suffering a horrendous bleaching event. https://t.co/8e5P954QBp
“…we find that the world economy is committed to an income reduction of 19% within the next 26 years independent of future emission choices…” Shit, there goes the money I was counting on for carbon dioxide removal (CDR). https://t.co/Y9ktxDZDh1
My interview yesterday with Scientific American @sciam: “We shouldn't give up on the world's coral reefs; they’re just too valuable to lose…..The way to save them is to deal with greenhouse gas emissions….” https://t.co/Z1vkyURX7N https://t.co/fUeui3jn65
With the world's corals now suffering a fourth mass bleaching event in three decades, Brazil is bracing for what could be its worst coral bleaching event as extremely warm waters damage reefs in the country's largest marine reserve https://t.co/km3hw2G2Z5 https://t.co/lDKQJMevod
Brazil is bracing for what may be its worst-ever coral bleaching event as extremely warm waters damage reefs in the country's largest marine reserve – threatening the region's tourism and fishing revenues https://t.co/km3hw2G2Z5 https://t.co/ou0YBy5mvw