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December 14, 2004
Global Warming Underwater
Erik Olsen at Gadling posted a great article yesterday about
this island in the Maldives that was built, out of coral and sand, for people who had lost their homes on an island that has been submerged.
Today I found another water-related story and thought I would share with you.
"Coral reefs around the world could expand in size by up to a third because of increased ocean warming, according to a new Australian study which contradicts the long-held belief that global warming is destroying the reefs.
Previous research has predicted a decline of between 20 and 60 percent in the size of coral reefs by 2100 relative to pre-industrial levels because of increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels caused by the greenhouse effect in ocean surface waters.
But the 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."
Posted by insideoutmag at December 14, 2004 08:56 AM
Comments
As a follow to the above, I ran across this today on Salon.com, about how the killer tsunami made readily apparent what people from the Maldives have been trying to tell everyone about their endangered islands (registration or sitting through an ad required): http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/12/30/maldives/index.html
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