Posted on 12/19/2022 6:10:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
Scientists working on Australia's Great Barrier Reef have successfully trialled a new method for freezing and storing coral larvae they say could eventually help rewild reefs threatened by climate change.
Scientists are scrambling to protect coral reefs as rising ocean temperatures destabilise delicate ecosystems. The Great Barrier Reef has suffered four bleaching events in the last seven years including the first ever bleach during a La Nina phenomenon, which typically brings cooler temperatures.
Cryogenically frozen coral can be stored and later reintroduced to the wild but the current process requires sophisticated equipment including lasers. Scientists say a new lightweight "cryomesh" can be manufactured cheaply and better preserves coral.
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The reef is over half a million years old. The water has been warmer. The water has been colder. The seas have been deeper. The seas have been more shallow. There have been ups and downs.
In the past, lasers have not been needed to make everything “okay”.
They should shut up with the making up verbs thing.
They’re idioting.
LOL good one!
The Great Barrier Reefs are doing fine. This is just an indication that these jokers are not serious scientists, but grant harvesters.
C’mon, man. Follow the grant money.
100% correct. The reef will migrate both North and South seeking its ideal temperature. The coral polyps will also genetically change over eons to evolve to adjust to warmer or colder conditions. Do not worry about the reef. It survived he Middle Age Maximum in 750 to 1350 AD when temperatures were about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today. London existed then. London is from slightly above sea level to about 45 feet. There are no records of flooding in London during the Middle Ages.
Oddly if geological history repeats itself London will flood. The normal state of the Earth is Ice Age with brief interludes of warmth we now enjoy and life flourishes. Cold kills and the Sharaa desert is a plain of plenty.
We may be at the end of the ice age and sea levels will increase and flood low lying coastal cities over hundreds of years. We will slowly retreat as our cities have already fallen by age on the coast. We may be at the end of a warming period in an ice age (by defintion an ice age is over when the polar caps have melted in the past thus we are still in an ice age) or we could well be going back into full ice age. Geologically speaking from history, we will be going back into an ice age. Cold Kills.
It’s always good to have a plan B in case your anti-global warming hysterics cause the reef to freeze.
Zactly right.
1000 active volcanos not amused some think they can save the world.
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