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Myself 16 would love to visit these coral reefs in the not to distant future. However the increasing of temperatures in the water will put this dream off. By the time of 2050 there will be only diminutive portion of coral reefs left. This will be a real drop in our economy if this becomes reality, i think immediate action is required, and effective at that. Iam real apprehensive in knowing what will be the cure for this great ecosystem. I think harsher rules are required as well as the banning of fishing!
Not to act on stopping environmental destruction and man-made climate change when the means are available to do so would be an act of criminality with no historical parallel that will deservingly vilify this generation - and each one of us - forever.
Note that if you beleive the lies that
the hypocritical democratic scientist
AL GORE.Think again but with proof.
Jason Lee: Al Gore is not, and has never claimed to be, a scientist.
Whilst this article is clearly very well researched, can we really ever bank the entire future of our marine ecology and economy upon a disputable report? Protecting the reef is important always, but are we really in any immediate danger? If the reefs of the world can pull through hundreds of millions of years of global change, they can survive this.
This article was posted in 2005. There are many subsequent articles discussing the survival of coral reefs in warmer and more acidic seas:
http://www.mongabay.com/news-index/coral_reefs%20and%20climate%20change1.html
While many reef-building corals will be adversely affected in the short term, reef communities will adapt and change over time. The concern is the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the interim, which will be a long time on a human-scale time-frame.
even thought the reef has managed to survive millions of years before this, it hasnt ever had to deal with this kind of trouble before and since global warming has been proved to be a result of the carelessness from us and we should be concerned that we are causing such an impact on something that we have caused.
I think that it is terrible that the 95% of the coral will be gone. I think that that needs to be stopped. Think about it everything will be Brown and ugly.