Posted on 12/09/2021 7:06:33 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
COCONUT ISLAND, Hawaii (AP) — On a moonless summer night in Hawaii, krill, fish and crabs swirl through a beam of light as two researchers peer into the water above a vibrant reef.
Minutes later, like clockwork, they see eggs and sperm from spawning coral drifting past their boat. They scoop up the fishy-smelling blobs and put them in test tubes.
In this Darwinian experiment, the scientists are trying to speed up coral’s evolutionary clock to breed “super corals” that can better withstand the impacts of global warming.
For the past five years, the researchers have been conducting experiments to prove their theories would work. Now, they’re getting ready to plant laboratory-raised corals in the ocean to see how they survive in nature.
“Assisted evolution started out as this kind of crazy idea that you could actually help something change and allow that to survive better because it is changing,” said Kira Hughes, a University of Hawaii researcher and the project’s manager.
And while some other scientists worried this is meddling with nature, Hughes said the rapidly warming planet leaves no other options. “We have to intervene in order to make a change for coral reefs to survive into the future,” she said.
With the world’s oceans continuing to warm, scientists say they are up against the clock to save reefs.
“All the work we are going to do here,” said Hawaii’s Drury, “is not going to make a difference if we don’t wind up addressing climate change on a global, systematic scale.
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Most corals do fine with the water a little warmer. This is a solution in search of a problem, typical of the academy today.
Darwin was an evil Eugenicist who’s ideas were used by the SS.
Any animal that mass spawns yearly has a rapid evolutionary adaptation to disease, poisons, and environmental changes. That’s why insects have almost become immune to many types of insecticides.
I consider both Global Warming and Evolution to be pretty much junk science.
It’s interesting that these people are using a lab and an Intelligent Design to see if Evolution can aid Global Warming. I imagine grant money is available.
During the MMCO (Middle Miocene Climate Optimum) created temperate climates throughout much of the world — as much as 4 to 5 degrees Celsius (or 7 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit) above today’s average temperatures. Life flourished on earth.
The coral reefs did just fine. As habitat changes the coral will simply grow in different areas that become ideal for it.
It is indeed all about Grant Money.....aka...waste my money please.
Hey, maybe we can bring Kudzu to the Southern United State to control erosion... or maybe import rabbits to Australia... What could possible go wrong?
Hey, maybe we can bring Kudzu to the Southern United State to control erosion... or maybe import rabbits to Australia... What could possible go wrong?
Corals are already doing this. Corals are already adapting with species that have less trouble in warmer waters expanding as those who don’t like so much heat recede. They didn’t need human scientists to do what comes naturally TO LIFE.
Prompting adaptation is not evolution, it’s selective breeding.
Unless you think dog, cattle or horse breeds are evolutionary....
All adaptation is simply massaging traits to the forefront. Not evolution. No new genetics involved.
Silly scientists and their consensus. Get off the bus, it ain’t going there.
"...a solution in search of a large pile of Grant money!"
..a solution in search of a large pile of Grant money!”
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Are these the guys I saw a documentary on
that go into a reef, cut a big ol’ piece of coral off
take it to their workshop, cut those pieces up into bunch of little pieces and glue them to a base
grow them a little bigger
then go put them back into the ocean ?
Pfft.
Bet they get PhD money for an illegal gardeners wage.
How did coral even exist without well funded government bureaucrats???
Exactly.🙄
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