Hi Bert,
I agree completely. I'll attach a .pdf from this site:
http://www.iucn.org/?uNewsID=7695
which is the report that prompted the story in the "Age" newspaper I referred to in my first post.
The video from "Frontline" that I posted a link to, was a discussion with 4 panelists. Two of the panelists were involved in the IPSO workshop in April 2011:
- Dr Alex David Rogers, Scientific Director of the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) which convened the workshop at Oxford which produced the "ipso workshop report june 2011" attached.
His references from this report are listed as:
Rogers, A.D. & Laffoley, D.d’A. 2011. International Earth system expert workshop on ocean stresses and impacts. Summary report. IPSO Oxford, 18 pp. (this is the .pdf attached)
Veron, J.E.N., Hoegh‐Guldberg, O., Lenton, T.M., Lough, J.M., Obura, D.O., Pearce‐Kelly, P., Sheppard, C.R.C., Spalding, M., Stafford‐Smith, M.G.,
Rogers, A.D. 2009 The coral reef crisis: the critical importance of <350ppm CO2. Marine Pollution Bulletin 58: 1428‐1437
Carpenter, K.E., Abrar, M., Aeby, G., Aronson, R.B., Banks, S., Bruckner, A., Chiriboga, A., Cortés, J., Delbeek, J.C., DeVantier, L., Edgar, G.J., Edwards, A.J., Fenner, D., Guzmán, H.M., Hoeksema, B.W., Hodgson, G., Johan, O., Licuanan, W.Y., Livingstone, S.R., Lovell, E.R., Moore, J.A., Obura, D.O., Ochavillo, D., Polidoro, B.A., Precht, W.F., Quibilan, M.C., Reboton, C., Richards, Z.T.,
Rogers, A.D., Sanciangco, J., Sheppard, A.,
Sheppard, C., Smith, J., Stuart, S., Turak, E., Veron, J.E.N., Wallace, C.,Weil, E., Wood, E. 2008 One third of reef‐building corals face elevated extinction risk from climate change and local impacts. Science 321: 560‐563.
- Professor Charles R C Sheppard, who was also a participant at the Oxford workshop. He is also listed in one of the references above.