ISRS Stop Climate Change Killing Coral Reefs

COO Global Science & Technology, Inc.

Mauro Lepore Marine Palaeoecology Lab The University of Queensland

For my Brother Walt!

Walt Smith is the founder of the ADE project in Fiji working to restore reef habitat, reduce poverty and increase food security through village based coral farming. www.adeproject.org

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Hawaii at Manoa, ISRS Member

Professor of Marine Ecology, Simon Fraser University ISRS member

ISRS Member Marine educator, researcher.

Master's Student, Southern Connecticut State University

scientist, ISRS member

marine ecologist, member ISRS

Living coral reefs mean survival to millions of people who depend upon them for storm protection, food, income from tourism and fisheries, and other aspects!

Postdoctoral Scholar, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

For the sake of our marine and other ecosystems, we must limit our CO2 emissions. Coral bleaching and other symptoms of human-caused climate change can no longer be marginalized as "special interest" by corporate profiteers and their politicians. This is an urgent and immediate global crisis that affects everyone.

I strongly hope this is a first, and pivotal, step. Of course this needs to be followed up with reduction of other impacts such as physical destruction, pollution, and over fishing. The CO2 limitation will only provide a necessary framework condition for improved management and conservation of these highly valuable ecosystems!

I am an eco diver

I am a marine ecologist at the National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research and a faculty in the Marine Biology Department of the University of Haifa. Not only coral reefs will suffer - we are loosing native species on the eastern Mediterranean coast - most probably at least partly due to climate change

In FL - will volunteer in FL

I strongly support the consensus statement!

Potential graduate student

Program Director, New Heaven Reef Conservation Program