Caribbean Coral Suffers Record Death

AP News ^ | 03/30/2006 | SETH BORENSTEIN

[Louis Foxwell]

For some reason those who believe the most ferverently in evolution are the ones that complain the most as it takes its course.

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Absolutely right. All corals grow the thickness of a dime a year. The die off will regrow in a year. I have been raising corals for about 10 years. This is a normal cycle. Only those who seek greater controls over human trespass of the earth are aghast and shocked. It is all an act. There is no catastrophe.

[EEDUDE]

It's well known that when coral gets covered with sand it dies off.

I have done a lot of diving in the Caribbean, and in places where they dredged in new sand to counter beach erosion, the coral in that area died.

If I had to guess, I would say that hurricanes in the area the last few years are responsible for deposition of sand on the reefs.

I believe you are correct. They will regrow.

[surely_you_jest]

Arggh! I broke down and looked it up. The millstone case. Well. It has been a long time. Still, a nice screen name.

[UCANSEE2]

"It keeps getting worse !!"

Things change. We are in a part of the galaxy (happens every 65 million years) where odd things happen to our solar system.

The surface of many planets and moons will change.
Even ours.
The coral reefs in one area suffered big losses.

Wait until it's humans on a scale you have not seen before.

The magnetic poles may switch, even though we are not quite sure what effect that will have. It may be superfluous.

Last year, we had a MCE (mass coronal ejection) that gave emissions in the x-ray spectrum only, but 100's of times stronger than any previously known. The main thrust of this MCE barely missed the Earth, glancing off one edge.

Had it hit square on, I suspect we would not be having this discussion, as many of us would be dead, and many of the satellites would have been disabled.

The term FRENCH FRIED would likely describe what would have happened.

There is a large potential for massive catastrophe and change during our journey through the center plane of the galaxy, so hold on tight to your seat, because,

You ain't seen nothing, yet!

[Moonman62]

How long have they been monitoring these reefs? How can they be so sure this is an unprecedented event?

Coral leaves a record like tree rings, except over a much longer period of time.

[Hadley V. Baxendale]

If it wasn't my first contracts case, it was certainly in the first week of school.

It's pretty esoteric, I know, but I thought it would be amusing to some. ;-)

[Hadley V. Baxendale]

A coral reef might reduce some wave action on the fringes of the storm, but it would do nothing to protect the northeast quadrant. It's lame to toss hurricane protection into a story like this.

Waves aren't the problem.