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From: frazier@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Frazier)
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Subject: Re: Coral reefs and global warming
Keywords: Carbon fixation
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Date: 30 Nov 90 18:30:17 GMT
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rosentha@sierra.Stanford.EDU (Peter A. Rosenthal) writes:


>	Some interesting questions:  

Some interesting questions, but fairly moot.  Coral reefs grow
much too slowly, and I believe the real CO2 consumer in the
ocean is plankton.  A very scary prognosis (seen on PBS) was
that, when the water warms a few degrees and the specific gravity
drops, much of the plankton will die, elimintating it as a
CO2 consumer, and probably killing most of the ocean in the
process.

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Greg Frazier	frazier@CS.UCLA.EDU	!{ucbvax,rutgers}!ucla-cs!frazier


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