Rising ocean levels due to global warming will be great for sea life. Thousands of square miles of new warm shallow seas with plenty of debris for coral and plant life to attach to.

/It sucks if you're not a coral but otherwise it's great.

corals on acid, I can dig it!

Corals have been around a half billion years. I'd be willing to bet they've survived some significant ocean chemistry swings.

To The Escape Zeppelin!:

Rising ocean levels due to global warming will be great for sea life. Thousands of square miles of new warm shallow seas with plenty of debris for coral and plant life to attach to.

/It sucks if you're not a coral but otherwise it's great.

Disastrously rising sea levels are yet another failed prediction of James Hansen, Al Gore's alarmist guru.

Temperatures, and sea levels, appear to be almost totally unaffected by anything mankind has done. Yes, sea levels are rising. They have been since the last major glaciation maximum, about 20 thousand years ago. The rate at which they are rising has been leveling off, and the rate does not seem to be changing at all relative to carbon dioxide emissions. As a matter of fact, you are "one crisis behind," as all the cool alarmists have moved on to worrying about "ocean acidification."



Now, carbon dioxide levels have been ten to twenty times what they are now, and there were abundant corals and other marine life, many of the same, or very similar species. TFA is discounting the "ocean acidification" argument. That means that some new climate catastrophe will have to be dreamed up -- and they're just about out of them, I think. Carbon dioxide emissions are harmless, and do not have a noticeable effect on climate, or anything else. The hoax has run its course.

bullsballs: corals on acid, I can dig it!


what a clam may look like on acid 8-)

Please, please don't take the title of TFA at face value.

"Our research broadly suggests that those with skeletons made of aragonite have the coping mechanism -- while those that follow the calcite pathway generally do less well under more acidic conditions."

The aragonite calcifiers -- such as the well-known corals Porites and Acropora -- have molecular 'pumps' that enable them to regulate their internal acid balance, which buffers them from the external changes in seawater pH.

"But the picture for coral reefs as a whole isn't quite so straightforward, as the 'glue' that holds coral reefs together -- coralline algae -- appear to be vulnerable to rising acidity," Professor McCulloch explains.

"The good news is that most corals appear to have this internal ability to buffer rising acidity of seawater and still form good, solid skeletons,"

With several species of small, furry animals?

'cant spell oral without coral'.
Anyone else notice that?