Sunday, February 01, 2009
Will rising carbon dioxide and global temperature destroy coral?
The demise of the coral reefs has long been thought to be an early consequence of anthropogenic global warming caused by rising greenhouse gases. Well, maybe not. The question, I suppose, is whether documented reef "die offs" are natural in the sense of having always happened, or whether we are seeing something new.
4 Comments:
By 
Brian, at
Sun Feb 01, 05:53:00 PM:
That's probably the most embarassing post yet from Watts. The current pace of acidification (which is an appropriate term when pH is dropping) is what matters, and diluting the pace by adding the period of 1750-1950 where little happened is misleading.
Changes in pH that happened at geologic rates, hundreds of millions of years ago, tell us nothing about the level of disruption we'll see at human time scales. Corals could easily have been disrupted or nearly gone for thousands of years without us knowing from the fossil record.
And the relevance of nuclear test is nonexistent. What an award-winning site.
By RPD, at
Mon Feb 02, 03:48:00 PM:
So, do you bother to read the articles that disagree with your worldview before you dismiss them?
By 
, at
Tue Feb 03, 02:48:00 PM:
RPD, if you had bothered to read my comment, you would have seen that I couldn't have written it without reading the link, as it references info found in the link and not at TH's post.
By RPD, at
Wed Feb 04, 02:56:00 PM:
Ah, so it's the comprehension that was absent.
