Hoegh-Guldberg, Hans.

Climate change and the Florida Keys [electronic resource] / by Hans Hoegh-Guldberg.

[Florida Keys, FL. : Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary?], 2010.

1 electronic document (488 p.) : PDF file, col. ill., col maps ; 5.23 MB.

Title from title screen (viewed on Feb. 16, 2011).

NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, Socio-economic impacts of predicted climate change related coral bleaching for the Florida Keys. Project ID: 1958. Principal Investigator: Bob Leeworthy.

"Final report in one file. July 21, 2010."

"Socioeconomic research and monitoring program, Florida Keys National marine Sanctuary (FKNMS), National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA)."

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Internet browser; Adobe Acrobat Reader.

"This research is part of the Socioeconomic Research & Monitoring Program for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS), which was initiated in 1998. The main report concerns the Florida Keys, after which two appendices identify key issues related to the future of the Keys over the 21st century. Four appendices follow dealing with the global environment. They are described first to put the Florida Keys into context. The global environment: The threat of global climate change has grown over very few years from urgent to 'red alert' according to the vast majority of climate scientists. Better climate models showing positive feedback have dramatized the evidence, but more importantly what were previously considered worst cases have moved closer to the center of the probability distribution. Global factors are therefore even more crucial than when this project was first planned in 2005. The research is derived from the four global scenarios originally developed for the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2001 - scenarios showing the consequences of taking no corrective action through climate policy. Despite their age, the scenario stories still form a reasonable framework, but the numerical implications are no longer acceptable. The new scientific consensus is that atmospheric CO2 levels of 450 parts per million or more will be quite unsafe. To keep average global warming to a maximum 2OC above pre-industrial levels means reducing the CO2 from the 2009 level of 388 ppm to 350 ppm or less (Appendix 3)"--Abstract.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 482-488) and footnotes.

Funded by NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program.

Marine parks and reserves Florida Florida Keys Management.

Climatic changes Economic aspects Florida Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

Climatic changes Florida Florida Keys.

Coral reef ecology Conservation Florida Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

Coral reef fishes Climatic factors Florida Florida Keys.

Leeworthy, Vernon R.

Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)