Posted on 10/15/2016 10:51:43 AM PDT by EveningStar
Dead and dying are two very different things.
If a person is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, their loved ones don't rush to write an obituary and plan a funeral. Likewise, species aren't declared extinct until they actually are.
In a viral article entitled "Obituary: Great Barrier Reef (25 Million BC-2016)," however, writer Rowan Jacobsen proclaimed ― inaccurately and, we can only hope, hyperbolically ― that Earth's largest living structure is dead and gone.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
25 million years is a relatively a short geologic time, about, one-third of the way back to the dinosaurs. Where was Australia and where is it going? F#ck global warming, drag Australia back to where it was.
Reunite Gondwanaland!
He is not a marine biologist
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It’s a little off topic, but you remind me of that Seinfeld episode where Jerry says that George is a marine biologist. And George says, Yòu know I always wanted to pretend I’m an architect! LOL
LOL!
My daughter wants to visit Australia. I’d love to make it happen, but it’s not cheap!
Really?!!! The earth alternated between tropical and Ice Age eras before humans even existed.
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