Earth's endangered Oceans

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg NCSE talk from John Bruno on Vimeo.

A talk by Dr. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg on Climate Change Impacts on Ocean Ecosystems in the 21st Century from the 2011 NCSE conference in Washington, DC "Our Changing Oceans".

If you want to get scared and emotional about anything, let it be about what is happening to the oceans!

HT SeaMonster via twitter

Coral Reefs

Coral reefs report warns of mass loss threat

By 2050 virtually all of the world's coral reefs – from the waters of the Indian Ocean to the Caribbean to Australia – will be in danger, the report warns. The consequences – especially for countries such as the Philippines or Haiti which depend on the reefs for food – will be severe.

"These are dire results," said Lauretta Burke, a lead author of Reefs at Risk, a collaborative effort led by the World Resources Institute in Washington and 25 other research organisations.
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But Lubchenco warned: "It will take a Herculean effort to reverse the current trajectory and leave a healthy ecosystem to our children and grandchildren."