tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15306282.post3221180650704985847..comments2007-11-24T14:16:50.632-08:00Jesse Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00297127385884430247noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15306282.post-61156196667116282212007-11-24T14:16:00.000-08:002007-11-24T14:16:00.000-08:00CO2 has an unusual property called retrograde solubility. CO2 dissolves in cold water and bubbles out of warm water. Increasing the temperature of sea water (70% of the planet)causes seawater CO2 to evolve out and makes sea water more ACID. It is balanced at a point in chemistry called equilibrium. Local pH measurements may vary; this is called the normal variatio of a regionalized variable. <BR/><BR/>Coral animals and coral-algal reefs have existed since the Cambrian, about 500 million years ago. Coral have been thriving, particularly in warm tropical seas through thick and thin climate change since then. Their symbiosis with algae is a subtlty missed by an inconvenient and embarassingly wrong Power Point presentation by an American vice-president and some hollywood celebrity scientists. Pacific island atolls and Florida cannot dissappear if sea level were to rise. On the contrary, atolls (and Florida, Bermuda) have kept pace with 125 metres of sea level rise over the past 12,000 years during the interglacial episode we are now enjoying. Run for your lives alarmists; you have not done your homework.<BR/><BR/>Oh and by the way, Antarctica is growing colder and the ice cap,is growing; Greenland is below zero and the ice load has depressed the island mundreds of metres below sea level so the ice would need to flow uphill to slide off.<BR/><BR/>artesian1[at]sympatico.caAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15306282.post-64739457330770886552007-10-28T16:39:00.000-07:002007-10-28T16:39:00.000-07:00Coral is at serious risk from two things:<BR/>- Warming sea temperature will kill the coral polyps and there is irrefutable evidence that sea temperature is rising and<BR/>- Increased Carbon dioxide dissolved in the sea in raising the pH or making it mare acidic and this is close to the level that will kill coral.<BR/><BR/>This is NOT warm-mongers and the level of scientific doubt about humans being responsible for global warming no significant. <BR/><BR/>99% of scientists support the contention that human activity is responsible for global warming and we ignore this at our peril.<BR/><BR/>Jean Cannon You can Green Your Business and increase your profits<BR/>www.envirojean.comJeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05604429190066648524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15306282.post-37139030477833994292007-10-28T06:07:00.000-07:002007-10-28T06:07:00.000-07:00These islands are coral atolls kept at sea level by a magical symbiosis between algae and the coral animal. Tropical storms modify them and redistribute coral and spread 'seed' branches around to keep the island at sea level. The islands and atolls can keep pace with subsidence if man does not foul the water by blasting. Turbidity from human activity can smother the coral animals. Oh and by the way, sea level has risen an arithmetic average of 6 - 8 mm a year (125 m) since the end of the ice age. The islands and the people there rose with them. On the broader siliciclastic continental shelves, there were an infinite number of aboriginal 'Noahs'. <BR/>Relax, the planet is fine except for totalitarian politics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15306282.post-91721070742776409152007-10-27T18:48:00.000-07:002007-10-27T18:48:00.000-07:00Fathead,<BR/><BR/>The islands are SINKING, not being inundated by rising seas.<BR/><BR/>This is another example of warm-mongers using a disaster for propaganda.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com