The sonoran polar bear in its natural habitat.
Posted on 02/15/2010 4:49:22 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Cold snap killing Florida's coral reefs
THE polar snap enveloping much of the United States in record cold has been killing off coral reefs and causing iguanas to drop out of trees in the normally balmy warm waters off the Florida Keys, experts said today.
The unusually chilly weather so far this year has seen sea temperatures plummet in southern Florida - a fatal development for the coral, which dies when exposed for an extended time to temperatures below 15 degrees Celsius.
Especially in the lower Keys, "temperatures have been lower ... there is higher mortality", Diego Lirman, a University of Miami expert on coral, said.
Florida's usually mild and sunny winter weather has given way to record low temperatures during the historic cold snap in recent weeks.
In Miami, the thermometer in January and February regularly dropped below 1.6 Celsius, the coldest temperatures since 1970.
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If we only had some Global Warming.....
Won’t the polar bears eat all the manatees?
quick! DUMP THOSE CARBON CREDIT! GET THE FOOTPRINT UP!
AlGore said that warming was “bleaching” the coral reefs.
Don’t be fooled! The earth is getting hotter by the day! This cold is just a trick by the deniers!!
God, please bring on global warming!!!
We’re too dammed cold!!! I just want it to be Spring/Summer again. I’m so sick of freezing my ass off every time I go outdoors!
If there was just some way to stop ALL weather...... just not have any weather at all.
If it were up to people like Gore and his criminal cohorts, we would have never evolved.
Global Warming has little downside.
Global Cooling can be catastrophic.
Given the incompetence of the scientists involved in Global
Warming it would not be surprising they overlooked the signs of impending Global Cooling.
Rove is somehow involved in this.
This is gonna be tough to spin. And it hasn’t just been Florida.
Well I swan...I thought it was Bush and lack of health care.
We had a cold spring last year but this year so far takes the cake. I’m gonna shiver me timbers again tomorrow.
Do what I do; toss another piece of wood into the stove. It heats the house and increases my carbon footprint. A win win situation from where I sit.
Could you imagine these idiots living a million years ago and wanting dinosaurs on the endangered species list.
Darn that global warming!!!!
I’ve been here in the Lower Florida Keys since 1976. I’ve seen some cold spells before, like January 1981 when it was 36 degrees on Cudjoe Key where I lived at the time. That was the same day that snowflakes fell in Marathon in the Middle Keys.
But in those 34 years, I’ve never seen anything like this year for prolonged cold. Yesterday I looked at the National Weather Service website just to see how much colder than normal it’s been and I see that in the 45 days year to date, 75% of the days have been double digits below normal. We’ve had a massive fish kill in the canal system behind my house and trees in the yard that have shed all their leaves. ots of the green vegetation left is browned out from the cold winds.
Water temps on the reef about three weeks ago were in the low 50’s, easily 15 degrees colder than anything I’ve seen before.
Hey it’s snowing here right now in SJ......
I’m sure it’s gloBULL warming.
before they claimed too much fresh water was doing it
LOL...now that’s funny!
YES and that really scarey.
I was thinking the same thing.
Well... F them if they can’t take a joke..
“Rove is somehow involved in this’’. You bet your sweet bippy he is!! And so is Dick Chenney and his secret weather machine that can cause global warming!! Haliburton made it for him in their secret laboratory and he use’s it to control the weather and cause global warming and he’s evil and it’s Bush’s fault too and .....and..... :-) (s)
Snowing right now in central NJ.
WOW just WOW. Not only is it not warming it appears to be drastically cooling, which is much more dangerous.
There’s been so much snow here in VA during the past two months, with temps barely making it above freezing, I’ve almost forgot what grass looks like.
I keep telling myself that Spring WILL happen eventually, even though it seems unimaginable at this point. lol
Well, now we have BOTH global warming AND global cooling to worry about, so we better double up on the taxes to help combat them.
Warmer climate tracks with periods of great civilizations.
Rise of the Mesopotamian civilizations
Rise of Mycenaean Greece,
etc.
Primarily because its period of time where food production is accelerated.
We are clearly in a interglacial period
The possible sobering thought is how close we might be to the next extended deep freeze. Some of these “climate warming” guys were claiming the deep freeze was coming back in the 1970s. However then they were NOT claiming that this "climate change" was man-made like there are now.
It isn’t “killing” the coral reefs. It knocks them back a bit but they recover. All those “irretrievably dead” reefs of a few decades ago have flourished since.
Uh....
Coral Reefs Being Destroyed By Global Warming, Ocean Acidification(in the keys)
Rising Ocean Temperatures Threaten Florida’s Coral Reef (2006)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/22/us/22coral.html
Rising Ocean Temperatures Threaten Florida’s Coral Reef (2006)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/22/us/22coral.html
That’s a good one!
That made my wife ask why I chuckled.
They’ll grow back.
LOL Excellent job. ;>)
We told you to call it climate change now...but you “common sense” peasants won’t listen to our superior intellect!
Then there’s all those “snowbirds” who fled our northern winters because they could live down south cheaper than they could heat their places up here. And are now running the furnace down there anyway.
All together now, sing it with me....
To the tune of that old Kenn-L-Ration ditty...
My God’s bigger than Gore’s God.
My God’s bigger than Gore’s!
My God’s bigger than
My God’s smarter than
My God’s better than Gore’s!
Don’t think I believe this.
The damage caused by 5C cooling is much worse than 5C warming.
Al Gore and his other Global warming scammer cohorts are desperately trying to find a way to make a buck off this news. (In best elongated Al Gore accent) Spin: “Our efforts to stop gloBull warming have been so successful the coral reefs are dying off from the cold being produced. We'll have to make a few adjustments...”
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