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Warm oceans slow coral growth http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1235511878
It's official: the biggest and most robust corals on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) have slowed their growth by more than 14 per cent since the "tipping point" year of 1990. Evidence is strong that the decline has been caused by a synergistic combination of rising sea surface temperatures and ocean acidification.... "It is cause for extreme concern that such changes are already evident, with the relatively modest climate changes observed to date, in the world's best protected and managed coral reef ecosystem," according to AIMS scientist and co-author Dr Janice Lough.... "The data suggest that this severe and sudden decline in calcification is unprecedented in at least 400 years," said AIMS scientist and principal author Dr Glenn De'ath.
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Gremlin says: "Glenn De'ath, principal author and member of the Four Horsemen."
Gremlin says: "Famine plays a spare and mean drums, and Plague riffs on his axe like crazy."
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I don't wanna hear no scientists saying "severe and sudden" or "extreme concern" about anything.
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It's even scarier when Dr. De'ath is saying it.
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