Sad article on the future of coral reefs

InTheDrink · Oct 25, 2009

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | 'Freezer plan' bid to save coral

Just news, and who knows how true to the future this will hold, but the fact this is even being discussed by serious scientists is rather daunting.

Dive up everyone, whilst you have the chance...

J

OldNSalty · Oct 25, 2009

InTheDrink:
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | 'Freezer plan' bid to save coral

Dive up everyone, whilst you have the chance...

J

Because the fuel you burn in your car driving to the airport, the jet fuel for the flight and the diesel for the live-a-board couldn't possibly be contributing to the problem.

MauiScubaSteve · Oct 25, 2009

You can find charter boats operating on 100% recycled vegetable oil!

Extended Horizons, Maui.

elmer fudd · Oct 26, 2009

I'm a bit dubious. Assuming that global warming is a reality, (and that is debatable), most estimates predict the temperature rising a few degrees over a period of a century or so. So if the ocean temperatures get too warm for coral reefs in their present location, I would imagine that new reefs would develop in regions that are currently too cold for them. In all likelihood, global warming should extend the range of coral, not decrease it.

A far better case can be made for coral being threatened by increased concentrations of carbolic acid than by warming ocean temperatures.

Garrobo · Oct 26, 2009

If you are really concerned about the destruction of reefs why not sign up with an outfit that re-plants coral. Contact 'Amoray' in Key Largo. They are on the net.
As far as controlling the world's temperature, the entire issue sounds to me like some 60's dorm room discussion over half a dozen beers and a couple bongs.

OldNSalty · Oct 26, 2009

And even if some of us change our ways, you have huge percentages of people stepping out of poverty and into the modern middle class world every day in locations like China and India. These people are going to want the same luxuaries we have been enjoying for decades so the green house gases are only going to increase. The only way people are going to stop buring fossil fuels is to use up all the fuel in the first place. Change is hard.

AfterDark · Oct 26, 2009

elmer fudd:
I'm a bit dubious. Assuming that global warming is a reality, (and that is debatable), most estimates predict the temperature rising a few degrees over a period of a century or so. So if the ocean temperatures get too warm for coral reefs in their present location, I would imagine that new reefs would develop in regions that are currently too cold for them. In all likelihood, global warming should extend the range of coral, not decrease it.

A far better case can be made for coral being threatened by increased concentrations of carbolic acid than by warming ocean temperatures.

Stop making sense!!! The template is everything on earth is going to die as the plant is boiled in it's own juices because of humans. You'd better get your mind right on this Elmer!! :eyebrow:

Kingpatzer · Oct 26, 2009

elmer fudd:
A far better case can be made for coral being threatened by increased concentrations of carbolic acid than by warming ocean temperatures.

Agreed. And that is a far quicker process than global warming.

AfterDark · Oct 26, 2009

OldNSalty:
And even if some of us change our ways, you have huge percentages of people stepping out of poverty and into the modern middle class world every day in locations like China and India. These people are going to want the same luxuaries we have been enjoying for decades so the green house gases are only going to increase. The only way people are going to stop buring fossil fuels is to use up all the fuel in the first place. Change is hard.

That's right these 3rd world types don't know their place. How dare they try to live a better life! It ain't fossil fuel, that was a mistake. Recently hydrocarbons were found on I think one of Saturn's moons. I doubt we'll be finding fossils there also. The earth has gone through many changes before we evolved and it just continues. We just think we're so powerful we can affect it more that earthquakes, volcanos, floods, storms, meteors......and on ...and on. Please were bugs.

jc60625 · Oct 26, 2009

It's surprising to me that so many divers (i've heard similar positions on many dive boats) are dismissive of global warming... as in it's not real or has no potential impact on the planet. You would think those of us that make an effort to visually enjoy the environment would be better stewards/advocates of the very thing we love to do.

as far as a warming climate "expanding" reefs?!?! that's crazy, large reefs takes thousands of years to develop, a consistently unstable climate will absolutely not contribute to the expansion of reefs. I will agree that increasingly acidic ocean water is maybe a larger near term threat, along with over fishing, shark finning, and on and on...

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