Thursday, February 07, 2008

Maybe the coral won't die either...

just as the polar bears are doing just fine, thank you. ( Polar bears 'thriving as the Arctic warms up')

Apparently, coral reefs aren’t being harmed by global warming as predicted.
(Coral Reefs May Be Protected By Natural Ocean Thermostat)

Seems there’s some kind of feedback loop in the oceans that’s mitigating the problem as it occurs. (IF it’s occurring at all. Hard to tell if a problem is occurring when it…never occurs.)
Natural processes may prevent oceans from warming beyond a certain point, helping protect some coral reefs from the impacts of climate change, new research finds. The study, by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), finds evidence that an ocean "thermostat" appears to be helping to regulate sea-surface temperatures in a biologically diverse region of the western Pacific.

Okay, that’s one more disaster averted. Let’s move on, shall we.

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