UN says growing pollution threatens recovery of damaged reefs

Space Daily ^ | 10/19/2006 | AFP

[cogitator]

From what I've read, coastal water quality degradation is actually a more immediate and significant threat to coral reef health than warmer ocean temperatures.

[proud_yank]

UN says...

All I needed to read.

[cogitator]

All I needed to read.

That's too bad. In this case, the message is more important than the messenger.

[MNJohnnie]

the United Nations said

Well all you needed to see was this to know this is total nonsense. Just another fraudulent Chicken Little panic attack to justify the continuing raping of the Taxpayers pocket book by the Junk Scientists.

Let's see. Since the 1960s, Pollution, Overpopulation, Peak Oil, Global Cooling, Starvation, Killer Bees, Aids etc etc etc ad nausea have been the coming global Armageddon.

Funny thing, after raping the Taxpayers for years on this hysteria, the doom and gloom pronouncements magically vanish until the next media manufactured hysteria is needed to pump up Junk Scientist budgets.

[Cobra64]

True. Try drinking water in Mexico or Venezuela. I always drank bottled water or beer when on projects in those two sh!t-hole countries.

Once I ordered a vodka on the rocks.... Three guesses...

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The UN should just stop polluting.

[proud_yank]

I won't debate that there are environmental issues to be faced, however some things are hard to bite into. For instance:

It found that an estimated 70 percent of the world's tropical coasts have been developed and projected that 90 percent would be developed by the year 2030.

I find this hard to believe.

If the UN wants to pass 'international legislation' to ban development, keep it in the 3rd world dumps. They do not govern the United States.

[proud_yank]

Once I ordered a vodka on the rocks.... Three guesses...

Please don't tell me you literally got vodka over rocks!

[proud_yank]

If we bulldozed the UN HQ into the Atlantic, it'd make for a nice artificial reef, no?

[hophead]

Oh...I thought it said "reefers". Nevermind!

[cogitator]

This is an unwarranted attack. Do a little research yourself and find out if the threats to coral reefs are real or not (hint: they are). Your attitude in this case is a bit too head-in-the-sand.

[Cobra64]

No. Those "rocks" kept me in the can for about a day.

[cogitator]

I find this hard to believe.

I wouldn't mind seeing how the numbers were processed, but I wouldn't be surprised that tropical coasts are significantly developed -- they are popular places! Case in point:

Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman

Map of Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman:

Map of resorts on Phuket Island, Thailand (made famous by the tsumami):

[b4its2late]

I thought the oceanic ecosystem is under attack, as in out of balance, due to the mass killing of sharks for their fins.

[cogitator]

I thought the oceanic ecosystem is under attack, as in out of balance, due to the mass killing of sharks for their fins.

That doesn't help. There are several instances (wolves in Yellowstone is another) that show when top predators are eliminated or substantially reduced, entire ecosystems are altered.

Wolves are rebalancing Yellowstone ecosystem

[b4its2late]

And the sharks can't reproduce fast enough to keep up. I think it's in the far east where it is rampant......

[CGTRWK]

No kidding. Liberals come out against trashing nature and to some people, that makes turning the world into one big dump a conservative value. It isn't.

Reflexive opposition to the message bearer instead of a position that stands on its own merits should be left to Dingy Harry and the rest of the congressional socialists.

[Ace of Spades]

It's too bad. The eco-nazis and their antics have made us numb to the fact that there are true environmental concerns in the world. I just got home from Bermuda, one of the last places on Earth with an undisturbed reef system, a true treasure in this day and age.

[longtermmemmory]

This is like the homeless people stories that returned when GWBush took office.

These environwacko stories only happen to influence elections.

[cogitator]

These environwacko stories only happen to influence elections.

Well, the environmental threats to coral reefs don't happen just to influence elections.