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Coral Bones: "It's like I was living a new life"
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Will tropical coral reefs be the first ecosystem to be eliminated by climate change? Saturday, September 03, 2011. It's like I was living a new life". A report from Haiti. Posted by Caspar Henderson at 6:52 am. Very informative article. thanks! Subscribe to Post Comments [ Atom. Links to this post:. Please note that this blog is now pretty much 'on hold', with only occasional updates since January 2008. For notes on the Anthropocene extinction and what comes next see The Book of Barely Imagined Beings.
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Coral Bones: Death sentences
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Will tropical coral reefs be the first ecosystem to be eliminated by climate change? Thursday, December 13, 2007. In Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and sixteen other distinguished marine scientists call for. decisive action. Photos: extant examples of reefs from the Great Barrier Reef that are used as analogs for the ecological structures anticipated under the paper's coral reef scenarios. Photos by O. Hoegh-Guldberg. 4 Jan 2008, 20:54. I personally ins...
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Coral Bones: Catch less to get richer
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Will tropical coral reefs be the first ecosystem to be eliminated by climate change? Friday, December 07, 2007. Catch less to get richer. Economics of Overexploitation Revisited. Shows in four disparate fisheries that dynamic maximum economic yield can exceed maximum sustained yield. This means that if you reduce the harvest now, you'll actually be better off", says co-author Quentin Grafton. Catch cuts 'bring bigger profits'. The fisheries studied include long-lived and slow-growing orange roughy. Mike"...
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Coral Bones: ICRS
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Will tropical coral reefs be the first ecosystem to be eliminated by climate change? Tuesday, July 08, 2008. News and reports from the International Coral Reef Symposium here. Highlights for 7 July included:. Presentation of a check [cheque] for US $1,100,000 (approx Euro 700,000, GBP 556,000) from the U.S. Federal government for coral reef research in the U.S. Launch of The Status of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States. Is 500 ppm Co2 and 2 C of Warming the 'Tipping Point' for Coral Reefs? Granta...
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Coral Bones: On hold
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Will tropical coral reefs be the first ecosystem to be eliminated by climate change? Wednesday, January 02, 2008. There are unlikely to be more posts on Coral Bones. At least for a little while. (I do, however, continue to blog on a variety of topics at Grains of Sand. There are many sources of information on the future of coral reefs on the web. Some of them are listed in the links section on the right hand side of this page. Happy ' International Year of the Reef. Posted by Caspar Henderson at 4:11 pm.
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Coral Bones: Chagos islanders lose battle to return
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Will tropical coral reefs be the first ecosystem to be eliminated by climate change? Wednesday, October 22, 2008. Chagos islanders lose battle to return. The story is here. Posted by Caspar Henderson at 4:46 pm. Nice post, thanks for sharing! Subscribe to Post Comments [ Atom. Links to this post:. Please note that this blog is now pretty much 'on hold', with only occasional updates since January 2008. For notes on the Anthropocene extinction and what comes next see The Book of Barely Imagined Beings.
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Grains of Sand: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike
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Observations from a strange planet. Thursday, February 13, 2014. The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike. I have a review. Of The Sixth Extinction. By Elizabeth Kolbert in The Guardian. Here are a few notes and comments on points which I didn't manage to fit in the review or, if I did, got cut:. The hypothesis that the Chicxulub asteroid struck in June or July. Was mentioned by Jay Melosh. Total content of the world’s nuclear arsenals. Permian. a few decades. See analysis by Paul Wignall.
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Grains of Sand: SF & AI
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Observations from a strange planet. Monday, February 17, 2014. At the Oxford Martin School titled Artificial intelligence: examining the interface between brain and machine. I asked Anders Sandberg what role, if any, cultural products, including fiction, could usefully play in thinking about the future.* He replied:. I think the money quote in this talk was "We have very little idea how to encode a good values system [into intelligent machines].". The video is here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Grains of Sand: The unanswerable question
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Observations from a strange planet. Tuesday, March 04, 2014. The apparent confusion between the reality of dreams and the reality of waking life. allows writers to use dreams to question reality without having to attempt an impossible imitation of a dreamlike state. In one of his unpublished notebooks, Coleridge famously wrote:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary. Granta and CUP, 2016/17) casparhenderson.com. View my complete profile.
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Grains of Sand: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene
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Observations from a strange planet. Tuesday, May 06, 2014. A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene. On 4 May I presented a small Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene at the First Athens Science Festival. The event was filmed. Here is a list of the objects that made the cut:. A beautiful form embodying lessons of time, structure and number from hundreds of millions of years of prehuman history. 3 Flute made from a seed. 4 Sculptures from the Hamangia Culture. Central to a early phase of globa...
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