Global Warming Makes Seaweed Sick

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Tony Heller

New research links the spread of disease in a type of seaweed that is critical for marine life to global warming

Rising ocean temperatures due to global warming have already been linked to coral reef deaths, destructive storms, shifting species distributions and harmful algal blooms. Now, a team of Australian researchers is adding a new and similarly daunting concern to that list: the spread of disease in “habitat-forming” seaweeds that are critical to marine health.

http://www.reuters.com/

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3 Responses to Global Warming Makes Seaweed Sick

  1. gator69 says:
    July 18, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    Since the oceans overall are cooling, money wased.

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  2. ralph says:
    July 18, 2011 at 6:51 pm

    Do people still eat seaweed burgers?

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  3. Dan Pangburn says:
    July 18, 2011 at 7:46 pm

    The Argo Floats program reports that the ocean stopped warming about 7 years ago. Google ‘nodc noaa “ocean heat content” ‘ to see a graph. Google ‘sunspot “time integral”‘ to discover what caused the temperature run-up in the 20th century.

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