Xref: utzoo sci.aquaria:968 sci.bio:4026 sci.environment:8792 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!ncsuvx!news From: kwf@ecersg.ncsu.edu (Ken Fernald) Newsgroups: sci.aquaria,sci.bio,sci.environment Subject: Re: Coral reefs and global warming Keywords: Carbon fixation Message-ID: <1990Nov30.141515.26084@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 30 Nov 90 14:15:15 GMT References: <719@sierra.stanford.edu> Sender: news@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: kwf@ecersg.ncsu.edu (Ken Fernald) Organization: NCSU Computing Center Lines: 20 In article <719@sierra.stanford.edu> rosentha@sierra.Stanford.EDU (Peter A. Rosenthal) writes: > > It is well known that healthy coral reefs are quite >effective at fixing carbon dioxide into calcium carbonate skelatons. >They are also remarkably productive ecosystems that support enormous >diversity in an astoundingly nutrient poor environment. I would >like to start some discussion on the possible importance >of coral in fixing C02 from the atmosphere. You may also want to consider the possibility that global warming exists only in certain crude computer models that have been extrapolated far beyond reasonable limits. There is actually little scientific data which supports global warming, and in fact, global temperature measurements show that the warming simply isn't happening. -- +----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+ | Kenneth W. Fernald | "To recognize that nature has neither a | | kwf@ecersg.ece.ncsu.edu | preference for our species nor a bias against | | North Carolina State Univ. | it takes only a little courage" - James Randi | Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com