Climate Activist Bill McKibben – UK Guardian – August 17, 2016
The reefs can’t be made whole again: if they recover at all it will be slowly, and in the face of ongoing warming that seems unlikely. But at the very least, the nations that sustained this damage should be compensated. Exxon and its brethren made record profits in the last decades of denial and deceit; that money should rightfully go to pay for the damage it caused, and to build the energy systems that can power our lives without destruction.
We need to remember that there’s nothing natural about this horror. It was caused, as so many crimes are, by greed. And that greed is ongoing – Exxon continues to search for more hydrocarbons, and to reject even modest changes to its policies.
That’s why we’re wrapping crime scene tape this week around those bleached coral heads, those dead staghorns. That’s why we’re taking crime scene photos with underwater cameras. That’s why we’re protesting on the reefs. We’re not going to let them get away with murder.
Full McKibben article here:
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Scientific Reality Check on Mckibben’s claims:
‘Coral Reefs Expand As the Oceans Warm’: Peer-reviewed paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds warming oceans expand the range of tropical corals northward’ – ‘Corals are adapting to climate change and expanding, not contracting’
Natural climate change drove coral reefs to ‘total ecosystem collapse’ when CO2 was ‘safe’ – ‘According to a paper published in Science, natural climate change 4,000 years ago drove coral reefs to ‘total ecosystem collapse lasting 2,500 years’ for ‘40% of their total history’ over past 6,000 years. The authors believe ‘an intensified ENSO regime’ was responsible, but then erroneously assume AGW will lead to a similar reef collapse, despite extensive peer-reviewed literature showing that changes in greenhouse gases have not and will not affect ENSO intensity’
Claim: CO2 Pollution Could Erase Coral Reefs — Reality Check: ‘Corals evolved during the Cambrian Era, when CO2 levels were 8 to 20 times higher than today’ – ‘The great coral reefs of the Permian era formed when CO2 was as high as 3,000 ppm CO2. Obviously corals like high levels of CO2’
New Research: Coral Reefs Will Thrive & Expand With A Warmer Global Climate
NOAA scientists admit in private that they can’t name any place affected by ocean acidification
The Fishy ‘Science’ of Ocean Acidification
Science -vs- PR hype doesn’t hold up: Satellite images reveal ocean acidification from space
Evidence discovered that ‘ocean acidification’ scare may be as fraudulent as ‘global warming’
NOAAgate: how ‘ocean acidification’ could turn out to be the biggest con since Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick – Concealed Data reveals: ‘There has been NO reduction in oceanic pH levels in the last century.’
What Damage Has Human CO2 Emissions Done To Coral Reefs? New Peer-Research Says ‘Nada’
Study: ‘Rising ocean temps caused by climate change are unlikely to mean the end of coral on the Great Barrier Reef’ – ‘In results they have described as ‘surprising’ the study found while one species declined in abundance, other species could rise in number. ‘The good news is that, rather than experiencing wholesale destruction, many coral reefs will survive climate change by changing the mix of coral species as the ocean warms and becomes more acidic’
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The only thing that has died is Mckibben’s brain.
I,suggest bill McKibben stops using fossil energy entirely .
…and GHGs continue to warm the planet and acidify the oceans.
Best,
D
When I want a “go to” guy about climate change my first thought is Bill McKibben, an English major from Harvard. Or if I really want serious climate science I’ll go to another Harvard grad, Al Gore. Or if I really,really want the true scoop on climate I’ll go to another Harvard hotshot,Barack Hussein Obama. Hmm, I’m beginning to detect a serious BS pattern here.
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