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"Climate Change may wipe out large mangrove forests" https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912045029/climate-change-may-wipe-out-large-mangrove-forests-new-research-s

"Climate Change may wipe out large mangrove forests" https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912045029/climate-change-may-wipe-out-large-mangrove-forests-new-research-suggests https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912045029/climate-change-may-... Even if logging is a concern, the mangroves wouldn't be as protective as you're implying. Directly related reading: "Mangroves in Tuvalu are threatened by various factors such as coastal erosion, pollution and on a long term basis the sea level rise due to global warming." (https://www.fao.org/forestry/9011-09d32b158b21752798b87b03786b39ec.pdf https://www.fao.org/forestry/9011-09d32b158b21752798b87b0378...) Known at least as far back as 15 years ago: "Rising sea levels caused by global warming are posing a threat to mangroves and therefore communities in Pacific island nations, according to [the United Nations]" (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/jul/17/climatechange.climatechangeenvironment https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/jul/17/climatec...)

hammock 5y ago
There is no question that mangroves can save shoreline, today. The sea level rise in question is not enough to kill mangroves and won't be for some time. One source: >The authors determined that accretion will not keep up beyond sea-level rise of 0.27 inches per year. Rutgers University climate data scientist Erica Ashe, one of the authors, says the current global rate is 0.134 inches https://therevelator.org/mangroves-climate-change/ https://therevelator.org/mangroves-climate-change/ On an unrelated note, I am glad that you are doing some research and hopefully learning a bit along the way.
- eganist 5y ago
  > There is no question that mangroves can save shoreline, today. > The sea level rise in question is not enough to kill mangroves and won't be for some time. One source: > > The authors determined that accretion will not keep up beyond sea-level rise of 0.27 inches per year. Rutgers University climate data scientist Erica Ashe, one of the authors, says the current global rate is 0.134 inches > https://therevelator.org/mangroves-climate-change/ https://therevelator.org/mangroves-climate-change/ > On an unrelated note, I am glad that you are doing some research and hopefully learning a bit along the way. Please reread your own sources. Your own source concludes in the paragraph following the one you cited that: "Based on projected rates, mangrove trees could lose their race against rising water within the next 30 years." See a few others which may be related: http://www.tuvalu-overview.tv/pdf/mangrove_manual.pdf http://www.tuvalu-overview.tv/pdf/mangrove_manual.pdf https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/11812/rsrs179.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/11812/... Tldr: climate change begets soil erosion, which leads to loss of land mass... which disappears islands. Let's stop disputing the obvious just to be a contrarian. Thanks, back to work for me. Wish you the best.

hammock 5y ago

There is no question that mangroves can save shoreline, today. The sea level rise in question is not enough to kill mangroves and won't be for some time. One source: >The authors determined that accretion will not keep up beyond sea-level rise of 0.27 inches per year. Rutgers University climate data scientist Erica Ashe, one of the authors, says the current global rate is 0.134 inches https://therevelator.org/mangroves-climate-change/ https://therevelator.org/mangroves-climate-change/ On an unrelated note, I am glad that you are doing some research and hopefully learning a bit along the way.

eganist 5y ago
> There is no question that mangroves can save shoreline, today. > The sea level rise in question is not enough to kill mangroves and won't be for some time. One source: > > The authors determined that accretion will not keep up beyond sea-level rise of 0.27 inches per year. Rutgers University climate data scientist Erica Ashe, one of the authors, says the current global rate is 0.134 inches > https://therevelator.org/mangroves-climate-change/ https://therevelator.org/mangroves-climate-change/ > On an unrelated note, I am glad that you are doing some research and hopefully learning a bit along the way. Please reread your own sources. Your own source concludes in the paragraph following the one you cited that: "Based on projected rates, mangrove trees could lose their race against rising water within the next 30 years." See a few others which may be related: http://www.tuvalu-overview.tv/pdf/mangrove_manual.pdf http://www.tuvalu-overview.tv/pdf/mangrove_manual.pdf https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/11812/rsrs179.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/11812/... Tldr: climate change begets soil erosion, which leads to loss of land mass... which disappears islands. Let's stop disputing the obvious just to be a contrarian. Thanks, back to work for me. Wish you the best.