Some Reading Material: The Great Barrier Reef

[scooter31707]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/weather/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching/index.html

 

[Justintegra]

I always get a little sad seeing this. That being said, I reject the assumption made in the article that this is a direct result of man-made global warming. I have read enough other articles to see that this is another cyclical climate event that has happened many times in the Earth's history.

Hopefully the bleaching event is short lived and the reef recovers as much as possible.

 

[ca1ore]

I think global warming is like religion. If you 'believe' then no evidence is necessary; if you don't 'believe' then no evidence is enough. :lol: Thought it interesting that while the voice over was all about the coral, much of the video focused on a bleached H. Magnifica.

 

[Rcook9]

I have read that because of "man made" global warming coral reef are starting to appear further north in areas that once did not suit corals that now do because of "climate change". Pretty neat

 

[killinit123]

I always get a little sad seeing this. That being said, I reject the assumption made in the article that this is a direct result of man-made global warming. I have read enough other articles to see that this is another cyclical climate event that has happened many times in the Earth's history.

Hopefully the bleaching event is short lived and the reef recovers as much as possible.

how can you reject the "assumption" (yes I quoted assumption because I believe it should no longer be characterized as an assumption) that us humans have no direct impact on climate change? sure there are cyclical patterns in earths history of major climate change but these have been proven to be a result (most of the time) from major cataclysms. the major cataclysm in this case is in fact the human race! our arrogance and our greed make it so the average person doesn't even think twice about sustainability. we lose the oceans we lose the earth plain and simple and the worlds reefs play a major role in keeping our oceans in balance. therefore we lose our reefs, we lose our oceans, subsequently we lose our earth.

 

[Justintegra]

how can you reject the "assumption" (yes I quoted assumption because I believe it should no longer be characterized as an assumption) that us humans have no direct impact on climate change? sure there are cyclical patterns in earths history of major climate change but these have been proven to be a result (most of the time) from major cataclysms. the major cataclysm in this case is in fact the human race! our arrogance and our greed make it so the average person doesn't even think twice about sustainability. we lose the oceans we lose the earth plain and simple and the worlds reefs play a major role in keeping our oceans in balance. therefore we lose our reefs, we lose our oceans, subsequently we lose our earth.

I'm not going to devolve this conversation into an anthropologic global warming argument. A previous poster summed it up as good as I have ever heard it:

I think global warming is like religion. If you 'believe' then no evidence is necessary; if you don't 'believe' then no evidence is enough.

On this, we can just agree to disagree.

To carry on the conversation. Interesting note someone else made about new reefs forming in more suitable places. I'd be curious to find out more about that. There are always reactions to changes as the Earth tries to maintain her balance.

 

[Rcook9]

I'm not going to devolve this conversation into an anthropologic global warming argument. A previous poster summed it up as good as I have ever heard it:



On this, we can just agree to disagree.

To carry on the conversation. Interesting note someone else made about new reefs forming in more suitable places. I'd be curious to find out more about that. There are always reactions to changes as the Earth tries to maintain her balance.

I actually heard about it on NPR news on the radio a couple weeks ago I did not read about it. The biologist that was talking on the show was saying that the warmer the water temperature gets the further north all tropical fish and coral will go in order to adapt to the changes. Really neat I'll try to find a Web link to this.

 

[killinit123]

I'm not going to devolve this conversation into an anthropologic global warming argument. A previous poster summed it up as good as I have ever heard it:



On this, we can just agree to disagree.

To carry on the conversation. Interesting note someone else made about new reefs forming in more suitable places. I'd be curious to find out more about that. There are always reactions to changes as the Earth tries to maintain her balance.

I agree that nature "always finds a way" but when the root cause of the imbalance is mankind you cant expect mother nature to solve it. That's like me breaking a water pipe in my house and calling an electrician to fix it. The point is that we are the cause of the problem and only we have the ability to fix it. The question then becomes; at what point will people realize this? The answer; most likely when its too late...