Edging up
2007 is likely be the warmest year since modern record keeping began, according to a forecast from the UK's Met Office (see BBC report).
Could the impacts include coral bleaching as bad as those in 1998? It is thought El Nino will be weaker this time, and will not -- I am told -- coincide this year with the Indian Ocean dipole, which is said to have reinforced the extreme event in 98.
Could the impacts include coral bleaching as bad as those in 1998? It is thought El Nino will be weaker this time, and will not -- I am told -- coincide this year with the Indian Ocean dipole, which is said to have reinforced the extreme event in 98.
posted by Caspar Henderson at
8:56 am
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Thanks, I didn't know about IOD. My beginner's marine ecology book doesn't mention it, AFAIK.
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