Nancy Knowlton is one of the premier coral reef scientists and very
willing to talk to political scientists. It has been a long time
since I interviewed her but I am sure you can Google her for contact
info.
Radoslav S. Dimitrov, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Western Ontario
Social Science Centre
London, Ontario
Canada N6A 5C2
Tel. +1(519) 661-2111 ext. 85023
Fax +1(519) 661-3904
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On 12-Mar-07, at 10:56 AM, jeremy firestone wrote:
You also could try Daniel Suman, at RSMAS, University of Miami,
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Jeremy
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Another person to contact in this context is Dr. Nancy Grumet
Prouty at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. She has worked
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Dr. Wil Burns
Senior Fellow, International Environmental Law
Santa Clara University School of Law
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Thank you so much, Willett, for sharing all this with us, and for
taking the time to clarify these potential misunderstandings. I'm
sure that I speak for the list as a whole when I say that I find
your occasional postings to be enormously helpful and provocative.
Yours,
Michael
Michael Maniates
Allegheny College
Spring 2007: Academic Dean, Semester at Sea. (Follow the voyage at
http://explore11.securesites.net/voyages/spring2007/)
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Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: Community-based management of coral reef resources
Larry,
Caldera and Wickett do not give a "scenario" that "posits" burning
all fossil fuel. It's a graph through time. Pick your estimate of
when you think we're going to stop increasing atmospheric CO2, and
read off pH. ("Stop increasing" means something over 80% reduction
in emissions from today, right?) I wouldn't be sanguine that
current political processes will get us there before the end of
this century. So, look at the end of this century, -0.4 pH change
in the surface waters. If you're reading the graph the same way I
am, and you understand the consequences of -0.4 pH change, you are
saying that you are confident enough that we'll get 80% reduction
in CO2 by 2050 that you see efforts to direct attention to the
problem are not worth distracting people from other problems. Or,
perhaps more clearly, see the graphs in:
http://co2.cms.udel.edu/Ocean_Acidification.htm
for both a blown up version of the Caldera and Wickett time graph,
and for a picture of the environment for tropical corals in 2070.
In other words, I thought I WAS dealing with breathing, rather than
the cut on the finger. (I took a first aid course too.)
I accept blame for pushing the student. He sought his own council
from the literature and from oceanographers, then decided.
Willett Kempton
On 12 Mar 2007, at 08:40, rldavis wrote:
The scenario described in the Caldera and Wickett article is
extreme. It posits burning all of the world’s fossil fuels. This is
unlikely on many levels, not the least of which is geological
(can’t get at a lot of those resources). Beyond that, even though
the acidification would be on a fairly short time scale, loss of
marine resources due to poor (or no) management of local problems
will take place on an even shorter time scale. Basically, a strong
argument could be made that by the time ocean acidification gets
bad enough to cause a severe problem, the reefs will be gone anyway
due to overfishing, physical damage, disease, and so forth. In my
wilderness first aid course, I was taught to deal with airway,
breathing, circulation first, no matter what the problem, because
unless those are taken care of within a very few minutes, other
problems become irrelevant. That, I believe is the case here.
I can’t help wondering if the student in question changed his
thesis topic because of the science or because of his advisor?
Larry Davis
