Posted on 12/14/2007 8:41:13 AM PST by cogitator
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The extraordinary thing is that people can actually say stuff like this with a straight face.
Read Creichton’s “State of Fear” if you want to find out about the environazi’s tactics. This is right out of that book.
What’s a mutha to do?
If they’re that fragile then who needs them.
CO2! Wow, lets all hold our breath until we die.
So how exactly do we save the coral reefs from the natural cycle of warming that follows the previous cycle of cooling? What is their plan to stop the Earth from recovering from the last Ice Age?
How arrogant to think that in the four billion year history of this planet, with its wide range of high and low temperatures, the Earth’s natural, optimal temperature just happens to be the one they’re experiencing right now...and that they are powerful enough to change it by simply using different light bulbs.
Sounds like something out of a Cheech and Chong movie LOL. I'm about to start tearing up from laughter. I can't take this.
I didn't realize that. So you think that the coral reefs are actually in great shape?
That was over 10,000 years ago. Holocene temperatures have been very stable.
What is their plan to stop the Earth from recovering from the last Ice Age?
The last vestiges of the LIA may have persisted into the early 1900s.
And temperatures are one thing; corals are also imperiled by ocean acidification.
These whacks really need to get it all on the same page. I was watching (Well, it was on) a show on Discovery/History/TLC about the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. On the one hand it was all about Global Warming(TM) and how it was affecting the reef, but they failed to stop the mention of the last Ice Age, where sea levels were down 300+ feet and the reef was completely out of the water and DEAD.
Of course, when the levels rose to today's levels the currents brought in more animals to populate the reef and SURPRIZE! It was back again.
Gone yesterday, here today, gone tomorrow? So what? Nature has it's ways and we aren't separate from them we are part of them.
“So how exactly do we save the coral reefs from the natural cycle of warming that follows the previous cycle of cooling?”
i’m currently looking for a project and would like to volunteer myself to investigate this tropical disaster. all i humbly ask is my expenses to be paid as my per diem.
thank you in advance.
So, is it your contention that this supposed ocean acidification is the Fault of Man? That somehow, since it is All Our Fault, that we will be able to stop the process?
Like anything alive today would REMEMBER what they have experienced in their evolutionary history!!
It's not a contention, it's a fact.
Symbiodinium D: Coral's All-Purpose Clade for Coping with Stress
Reference
Lien, Y.-T., Nakano, Y., Plathong, S., Fukami, H., Wang, J.-T. and Chen, C.A. 2007. Occurrence of the putatively heat-tolerant Symbiodinium phylotype D in high-latitudinal outlying coral communities. Coral Reefs 26: 35-44.What was done
The authors examined the symbiont diversity in a scleractinian coral, Oulastrea crispata, throughout its entire latitudinal distribution range in the West Pacific, i.e., from tropical peninsular Thailand (<10°N) to high-latitudinal outlying coral communities in Japan (>35°N), using "polymerase chain reactions (PCR), restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), and phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequences of the nuclear large subunit (lsu) of rDNA," while "single-stranded conformational polymorphism (SSCP) of PCR products was employed to assess its higher sensitivity for low-abundance PCR products in mixed samples."What was learned
The results of this enterprise convincingly demonstrated, "for the first time," in the words of the six scientists who conducted the study, "that phylotype D is the dominant Symbiodinium in scleractinian corals throughout tropical reefs and marginal outlying non-reefal coral communities." In addition, they learned that this particular symbiont clade "favors 'marginal habitats' where other symbionts are poorly suited to the stresses, such as irradiance, temperature fluctuations, sedimentation, etc."What it means
Being a major component of the symbiont repertoire of most scleractinian corals in most places, the apparent near-universal presence of Symbiodinium phylotype D provides, according to Lien et al., "a flexible means for corals to routinely cope [our italics] with environmental heterogeneities and survive the consequences (e.g., recover from coral bleaching)," which suggests that the climate-alarmist claim of the impending demise of the majority of earth's corals in the face of continued global warming may be little more than a fairy tale from the dark side.</p> Reviewed 12 September 2007
“....and that they are powerful enough to change it by simply using different light bulbs.”
Cow farts...it’s all in the cow farts I tell ya.
“It’s not a contention, it’s a fact.”
Oh really?
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