He was mostly interested in ink bleaching.

It causes these vast bleaching events that are the first signs of corals of being sick.

Such activities act synergistically to stress coral reefs, leading to severe bleaching and extensive coral mortality.

And if the bleaching doesn't go away if the temperatures don't go down reefs start to die.

The other kinds of effects of climate change this is coral bleaching. It's a beautiful picture, right?

Then in 2002, when this was all going full swing, a coral bleaching event happened in the Phoenix Islands.

103. Expresses its concern that coral bleaching has become more frequent and severe throughout tropical seas over the last two decades, and highlights the need for improved monitoring to predict and identify bleaching events to support and strengthen action during such events and improve strategies to support the natural resilience of reefs

117. Expresses its concern that coral bleaching has become more frequent and severe throughout tropical seas over the last two decades, and highlights the need for improved monitoring to predict and identify bleaching events to support and strengthen action during such events and improve strategies to support the natural resilience of reefs

For example, Dominica estimated that 15 per cent of its coral reef is already under stress from bleaching, and Papua New Guinea predicted that 25 per cent of its existing shoreline could be inundated.

Publicizing fine particulate (so called PM2.5) levels was critical to mobilizing widespread Chinese public support for addressing air pollution. Similar metrics are now needed to measure other forms of natural capital destruction, such as deforestation, marine reef bleaching, wastewater discharge, and soil degradation.

As global warming worsens, bleaching our corals and threatening our land as overfishing by foreign fishing fleets continues to deplete our vast fish stocks as certain fishing practices threaten to destroy our marine biodiversity and as the combination of those forces places our diverse island cultures in jeopardy, the challenges mount.