Sunday, June 3, 2007

CO2 and Deep Sea Coral

This is a link I think everyone should read. Self explanatory but, for the sake of clarification (and redundancy) I'll explain it anyway. Global warming or not, cold water coral is disappearing. Warm water coral i.e. tropical coral has been bleaching for a while now. It was determined that the rate of warming was causing specimens who couldn't adapt to die off. Such would be normal if it weren't occurring so rapidly. That's tropical coral. The stuff in the article is the much rarer deep sea coral. It's a valuable link in deep sea food chains.



Apparently, excess CO2 in the atmosphere doesn't just disappear, it dissolves into the ocean and becomes Carbonic Acid which wafts down to the ocean floor and poisons the rare deep sea corals. Yeah, oops.

2 comments:

Ed Kirk said...
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Ed Kirk said...

Hey Dav, I'm reading your blog. Nice post. How about some more?

Let's hippie this mub up! :D