Major bleaching of the worlds coral

[Piratefish]

Major, Worldwide Damage to Corals Seen This Year: Scientific American

Thought you people would be interested in this article.

 

[sen5241b]

Someone commented that there may be other causes besides global warming such as farm runoff. The planet has undergone landscaping over huge areas to form what scientists call urban conglomerates. Soil runoff, nitrogen fertilizer from farm runoff may have also caused part of the coral declines.

 

[Bifferwine]

Someone commented that there may be other causes besides global warming such as farm runoff. The planet has undergone landscaping over huge areas to form what scientists call urban conglomerates. Soil runoff, nitrogen fertilizer from farm runoff may have also caused part of the coral declines.

Yeah, that's true. But agricultural runoff only affects certain areas. Global warming causes widespread effects. The kind of bleaching scientists are seeing, in almost every coral reef on the planet, is due to global phenomenon, not local causes... There isn't agriculture in many of the places that the corals are dying. Many of these reefs are found in areas of the world that are largely uninhabited.

 

[sen5241b]

Yeah, that's true. But agricultural runoff only affects certain areas. Global warming causes widespread effects. The kind of bleaching scientists are seeing, in almost every coral reef on the planet, is due to global phenomenon, not local causes... There isn't agriculture in many of the places that the corals are dying. Many of these reefs are found in areas of the world that are largely uninhabited.

Yeah but neither is the destruction of reefs from runoff an unusual or rare circumstance.