[palmer]

Your article is unbalanced and biased. Although coral dies off at higher temperatures, those temperatures (about 90) have generally not been reached. Coral suffers much more from colder temperatures (70 or less) and natural coral deaths occur all the time. Under water chicken-little articles are easy since the public knows so little about it.

[ditto5]

Your article is unbalanced and biased. Although coral dies off at higher temperatures, those temperatures (about 90) have generally not been reached.

Coral bleaches at temperatures approaching 90 degrees, and this has been happening in the great barrier reef and Idian Ocean in repeated episodes.

Under water chicken-little articles are easy since the public knows so little about it.

So, you'd suggest the public should avoid the popular media, and get there news directly from the scientists? Fine, here is the early report from NOAA that came out last fall:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2526.htm