Coral dying because of warmer than normal SSTs

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Coral dying because of warmer than normal SSTs

#1 Postby drezee » Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:27 am

http://www.boston.com/news/world/latina ... tists_say/
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#2 Postby weatherwoman132 » Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:16 pm

wow...
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#3 Postby Tampa Bay Hurricane » Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:38 pm

This is quite disturbing
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#4 Postby HurricaneHunter914 » Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:15 pm

Well this is interesting.
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#5 Postby Gtmalacd » Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:30 pm

I thought the reefs go through cycles of dying off, and then coming back aggressively?
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#6 Postby Jim Cantore » Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:31 pm

I worry about the millions of animals that live on these reefs and what effect it will have on them
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#7 Postby EDR1222 » Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:13 pm

That is definately disturbing news. The impact of something like that could be very significant given all the species of fish and other sea creatures that depend on those reefs.
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#8 Postby aquaholic901 » Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:30 pm

Sombrero Reef off Marathon dies more & more everytime I see it. I've stopped diving it because it's too depressing to see all the bleached coral heads & broken fingers everywhere.
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#9 Postby Weatherfreak14 » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:27 pm

Tampa Bay Hurricane wrote:This is quite disturbing


Yes, poor fishies.
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#10 Postby weatherwoman132 » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:55 am

geez, what will become of it after this year?
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#11 Postby CHRISTY » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:10 am

not a good situation !
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