Re: Caribbean Coral Suffers Record Death

I agree....I hate sh*t science.

But this is what is disturbing...

"New NOAA sea surface temperature figures show the sustained heating in

the Caribbean last summer and fall was by far the worst in 21 years of
satellite monitoring, Eakin said. "

"We haven't seen an event of this magnitude in the Caribbean before,"
said Mark Eakin, coordinator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's Coral Reef Watch.

Eakin, who oversees the temperature study of the warmer water, said
it's hard to point to global warming for just one season's high
temperatures, but other scientists are convinced. "

Okay..the guy who came up with the data is not screaming "The sky is
falling" which is admirable (and smart considering who his ultimate
boss is). It also not a conservative versus liberal issue...Mother
Nature doesn't give a damn what your political views are....you survive
depending on how adaptable you are.

I agree that much more research needs to be done but the reality is
that funding for most of the sciences have been and are continuing to
be cut back by this Administration (NASA is a great example) to pay for
ongoing sinkholes (Iraq being a great example). If one cannot study and
learn to determine what you should be doing to survive, again Mother
Nature doesn't give a damn....you're just one more species that will be
soon to be extinct because you were too stupid to recognize what was a
real threat and what was not.

In Mother Nature's book, what it takes to survive is what needs to be
done...and funded.

TMT

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