Xref: utzoo sci.aquaria:987 sci.bio:4058 sci.environment:8851 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!bbc From: bbc@rice.edu (Benjamin Chase) Newsgroups: sci.aquaria,sci.bio,sci.environment Subject: Re: Coral reefs and global warming Message-ID: Date: 3 Dec 90 19:32:42 GMT References: <719@sierra.stanford.edu> <1990Nov30.141515.26084@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <1990Dec3.135107.28449@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Benjamin Chase Distribution: na Organization: Center for Research on Parallel Computations Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: kwf@ecersg.ncsu.edu's message of 3 Dec 90 13:51:07 GMT Follow-Ups-To: sci.environment Benjamin Chase writes: >>Ken, you may want to consider the fact that atmospheric CO2 _has_ >>increased. kwf@ecersg.ncsu.edu (Ken Fernald) writes: >Yes, CO2 has increased (about 30% i believe) but temperature has not. >If doubling of CO2 is supposed to raise the temperature 4-5 degrees C, >why hasn't it started? Well, Ken, I don't know exactly why a particular model doesn't correspond exactly to reality. But it's not _my_ computer model, now is it? Why don't you ask the people who wrote it? And are you sure that global warming hasn't started? Haven't ocean surface temperatures risen slightly in recent years? -- Ben Chase , Rice University, Houston, Texas Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com