CO2 More Powerful Than Dynamite, Overfishing, Pollution ………

9 Responses to CO2 More Powerful Than Dynamite, Overfishing, Pollution ………

1. suyts says:

   February 24, 2011 at 3:03 am

   There oughtta be a law!!! I’m not watching this one, is this because acidification that’s already been debunked or the warmth that’s already been debunked, or did they invent another something to be scared of?

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2. Lance says:

   February 24, 2011 at 3:55 am

   think of the reefs(children…)my heart just bleeds….i must stop breathing….

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3. Charles Higley says:

   February 24, 2011 at 4:09 am

   I know how they make those nice colored maps showing reefs at risk. They give little Billy red and yellow markers and let him color at will.

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4. Paul says:

   February 24, 2011 at 5:30 am

   Where does it say CO2 is to blame?
   Apart from heat stress, other causes of coral bleaching may include:
   * increased exposure to UV radiation;
   * excess nutrients such as ammonia and nitrate from fertilisers;
   * chemical pollution;
   * large amounts of storm water flooding the reef.
   (CO2 constitutes about 0.039% of our atmosphere – it’s essential to life on earth)

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5. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

   February 24, 2011 at 9:22 am

   So Coral has been around for hundreds of millions of years but now is going extinct?

   There has historically been much more CO2 in our atmosphere than exists today. For example, during the Jurassic Period (200 mya), average CO2 concentrations were about 1800 ppm or about 4.7 times higher than today. The highest concentrations of CO2 during all of the Paleozoic Era occurred during the Cambrian Period, nearly 7000 ppm — about 18 times higher than today.

   The Carboniferous Period and the Ordovician Period were the only geological periods during the Paleozoic Era when global temperatures were as low as they are today. Interestingly the Late Ordovician Period was also an Ice Age while at the same time CO2 concentrations then were nearly 12 times higher than today– 4400 ppm. According to greenhouse theory, Earth should have been exceedingly hot. Instead, global temperatures were no warmer than today.

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6. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

   February 24, 2011 at 9:23 am

   http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/23/coral-reef-report-dying-danger

   Guardian reef time, most be a slow day today

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7. Jimbo says:

   February 24, 2011 at 12:08 pm

   Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

   “There were major periods of worldwide reef expansion (e.g. mid-Silurian-Late Devonian), corresponding to global warming well above present day norms,…”
   http://www.springerlink.com/content/n832jt7n05086724/

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8. Mike Davis says:

   February 24, 2011 at 1:52 pm

   Global Warming would EXPAND the preferred living conditions for tropical type creatures, which includes coral! The major losses due to weather were due to conditions being to cold.

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   • glacierman says:

     February 24, 2011 at 2:15 pm

     Yea, not too many coral reefs in the Arctic Ocean. Cooling is the biggest threat to coral.

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