Scientists: World’s oldest organism faces threat from global warming

The State Column ^ | February 7, 2012

[Oldeconomybuyer]

A team of scientists say that sprawling seagrass in the shallows of the Mediterranean may be the oldest living organisms on Earth, far older than humanity itself.

Working off of DNA samples, a team of scientists say clumps of seagrass between Spain and Cyprus could be as old as hundred of thousands of years old.

The study comes as scientists have sought to increase studies concerning how various organisms will face the changes from global warming. The team of scientists studying the seagrass say that the organism is facing threats from higher than normal sea temperatures and pollutants introduced by humans.

The Mediterranean is warming three times faster than the world average and P. oceanica meadows decline annually by around 5 percent, say scientists.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[SkyDancer]

Had to have happened. But - if it’s hundreds of thousand of years old how come it’s only 2012????

[mkmensinger]

I guess she prefers cool weather.

[cripplecreek]

If you ask me, they’re really stretching it with what they consider a single living organism. A fungus maybe but this is a patch of sea grass that’s been there a long time.

Why not a forest?

[goat granny]

To all the Darwinist out there, its survival of the fittest. They are usually the environmental nazi’s also They also believe that silliness called global warming..

[Magic Fingers]

“The Mediterranean is warming three times faster than the world average and P. oceanica meadows decline annually by around 5 percent, say scientists.”

So the world hasn’t warmed before in the past 12,000-200,000 years? What a load.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[AU72]

Large portions of the Med coast is snowed under today.

[rottndog]

Working off of DNA samples, a team of scientists say clumps of seagrass between Spain and Cyprus could be as old as hundred of thousands of years old.

The study comes as scientists have sought to increase studies concerning how various organisms will face the changes from global warming. The team of scientists studying the seagrass say that the organism is facing threats from higher than normal sea temperatures and pollutants introduced by humans.


Gee...I wonder how on earth this hundred thousand year old organism could have possibly survived the much higher ocean temperatures from just a few hundred years ago, when the Earth's climate was warm enough to support the Vikings farming on Greenland...

[Don Corleone]

Another stab at 15 minutes of fame!

[The_Reader_David]

What are remarkably stupid claim. The Medieval, Roman, Minoan, and Holocene climate optima were all much warmer than the present, and the Holocene was warmer than the upper limit on expected warming even in the most dire of the models the IPCC actually seems to believe. The sea grass, if really older than humanity, did just fine in all those warmer climates.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...The analysis found the seagrass was between 12,000 and 200,000 years old and was most likely to be at least 100,000 years old...”
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Like, yeah, like, there has been no climate change in the last 100,000 years, right?

[NavVet]

That’s some neat trick. The Med is warming when even that Global Warming Whacko university in England now admits the globe has been cooling for 15 years.

[SubMareener]

Since is is now offical that Global Warming STOPPED in 1997, and it was warmer that now several times in the last 100,000 years, I don’t think there is going to be a problem.

[Navy Patriot]

Can ya ferment this stuff into ethanol?

If not, why worry?

[Vince Ferrer]

If it has survived a hundred thousand years, then I think it is probably more capable of surviviing climate change than anything else.

[old3030]

I knew it would be here.

[FlingWingFlyer]

You shouldn't ask questions like that! We're dealing with college educated "scientists" here! They've got real diplomas that say that they are really, really smart! ROTFL!

However, that was my first question also.

[ilovesarah2012]

I knew it. LOL

[Blacksheep]

Global Warming Trojan Horse of Socialism!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/englund5.html