Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Global warming killing coral reefs, right? Wrong, Australian study finds
Asia AP ^ | 12/13/2004

Posted on 12/14/2004 11:34:55 AM PST by worldclass

newly published research, by a team led by oceanographer Ben McNeil of Sydney's University of New South Wales, suggests that present coral reef calcification rates are not in decline and are equivalent to late 19th century levels.

"Our analysis suggests that ocean warming will foster considerably faster future rates of coral reef growth that will eventually exceed pre-industrial rates by as much as 35 percent by 2100," McNeil said in a statement Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at story.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming
Global Warming should definitely be in the realm of science fiction, right up there with warp speed travel and little green men on the moon.
1 posted on 12/14/2004 11:34:56 AM PST by worldclass
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: worldclass

Dang! Hate to break it to you...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1300566/posts


2 posted on 12/14/2004 11:38:59 AM PST by Hatteras
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: worldclass

Global Warming should definitely be in the realm of science
fiction,right up there with warp speed travel and little
green men on the moon.
=====
I was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant
red-shifted galaxies, and arrived in Roswell, New Mexico a few
years after my relatives made a somewhat noisier landing out in
the nearby desert. Without warp speed travel we would never
have been able to reach this thoroughly f_cked up planet !!! ;-))



3 posted on 12/14/2004 1:29:35 PM PST by GeekDejure ( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: worldclass
Corals, climate change and BIG LIE evolution theory
Lord Howe Island - evolution and ice age theories crosschecked

4 posted on 12/14/2004 2:39:26 PM PST by Truth666 (http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Proof+that+at+least+one+of+two%22)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GeekDejure

Just what we needed....MORE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!! :-) Did you at least register with the men in black?


5 posted on 12/15/2004 9:00:26 AM PST by worldclass
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: worldclass

Just what we needed....MORE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!! :-)
Did you at least register with the men in black?
=====
In a successful effort to avoid the Men In Black, my family and I
spent the next 10 years moving around the country at frequent
intervals, during which period I attended 27 different schools,
including Northpit Muddle Skool, before ending up at GIMMY.

After 7 pleasant years in Area 51, followed by 30 years in the
Center of the Universe (Elm Grove, Wisconsin), I now reside in
northern Cydonia with my 72 virgin wives, 666 wierd children,
one small, noisy, long-haired Mexican Chihuahua named Sam
(short for Samson), 395 of Lenny Dee's marvelous Hammond
organ classics, 9 aging Macs, 1 very stubborn Aurora, and an
awesomely cool Powerbook G-WIZ33, all of which are linked
together through an AppleTalk network thingy that sporadically
communicates with a miserable Microsoft Windows 98 machine
of dubious origin, and one supercalifragilistic Dell Black Beauty
running on Microsoft Ex-Pee (SP2) with 5 recent updates !!!
.


6 posted on 12/15/2004 11:43:19 AM PST by GeekDejure ( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: GeekDejure

Total disappointment...even extraterristerials use Windows!!...ugh. I was really hoping to get some cool tech from you.


7 posted on 12/15/2004 12:05:14 PM PST by worldclass
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: worldclass

Total disappointment... even extraterristerials use Windows!!
..ugh. I was really hoping to get some cool tech from you.
=====
We are also taught from birth to be cleverly deceitful where
concealment of our magnificent, highly advanced technologies
are concerned. Here, on planet Earth, Islamofascists are the
creatures that display a similar art of deception. However, they
have absolutely no technology to conceal, hence they apply all
their efforts to fiendish, Satanic head chopping techniques !!!


8 posted on 12/15/2004 2:21:13 PM PST by GeekDejure ( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: worldclass

If global warming kills coral, then how come we have so many reefs in the geologic column from eras when the average temperature was much warmer than now?


9 posted on 12/15/2004 2:27:42 PM PST by Dog Gone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: worldclass; asgardshill; Tealc
little green men on the moon.

They're not green. They're grey.


10 posted on 12/15/2004 2:32:52 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: worldclass

According to Jacques Cousteau, some coral reefs were in decline in his day, but that was due to toxic runoff and industrial waste. They didn't have Global Warming then, but they did have DDT and cobalt-90.


11 posted on 12/15/2004 2:33:12 PM PST by RightWhale (Destroy the dark; restore the light)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ArrogantBustard
They're not green. They're grey.

Actually, more of a light gunmetal.

(see my profile page)

12 posted on 12/15/2004 8:02:16 PM PST by asgardshill ("We march by day and read Xenophon by night.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: ArrogantBustard

Family photo? :-)


13 posted on 12/15/2004 8:20:11 PM PST by worldclass
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: ArrogantBustard; worldclass; 4mycountry; asgardshill; Cloud William; Frank_Discussion; ...


They're not green. They're grey.

Hey. When are they gonna name a ship after me? :)
14 posted on 12/16/2004 8:58:10 AM PST by Tealc (Mail me if you want on or off my Jaffa, Kree! ping list)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: asgardshill
Actually, more of a light gunmetal.

In other words... grey. ;)

15 posted on 12/16/2004 9:32:21 AM PST by 4mycountry ("We don't have 'Happy Holidays' aroud here. We have MERRY DADBURN CHRISTMAS!" - Chris Kirk)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson