Sea Cucumbers to blame?

[sd2127]

http://news.yahoo.com/digestive-acts-sea-cucumbers-may-dissolving-coral-reefs-022504331.html

I found this article to be an interesting read.

To sum up the article: Sea Cucumbers may be harming Coral reefs by secreting acidic compounds that may be weakening the structure of the coral communities in which they live.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

interesting. And Holuthurians have been around for how many millions of years? The REAL problem is ocean acidification
In other words, sea cucumbers aren't to blame.

 

[GMaquarium]

Reminds me of global warming via cow farts.

 

[tmz]

Poor cucumbers; next we'll be pickling them.I read they wan't to tax cow flatulence.; breathing is next.

 

[Cptn Spaulding]

We already pay for air at the gas stations to fill our tires. That's close enough to breathing.

That is an interesting read though.. sea cucumbers, eh? Between those, crown of thorns starfish, lionfish reaching the Caribbean, Irukanji jellyfish, and all the other things going on it is such a cascading effect this climate change has done to this planet.

 

[sd2127]

It amazes me that we can be so destructive to this amazing planet that we live on. Then we try to blame it on EVERYTHING we can possibly think of....
It also amazing just how sensitive out systems can be yet the oceans are able to handle pollution that we keep dumping into them. The size of plastic island in the Pacific comes to mind.