Xref: utzoo sci.aquaria:990 sci.bio:4079 sci.environment:8887 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!linus!philabs!ttidca!jackson From: jackson@ttidca.TTI.COM (Dick Jackson) Newsgroups: sci.aquaria,sci.bio,sci.environment Subject: Re: Coral reefs and global warming Message-ID: <21586@ttidca.TTI.COM> Date: 4 Dec 90 16:09:09 GMT References: <719@sierra.stanford.edu> <1990Nov30.141515.26084@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> < > < <1990Dec3.135107.28449@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>> Distribution: na Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica Lines: 16 In article frazier@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Frazier) writes: >bbc@rice.edu (Benjamin Chase) writes: >>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? The earth's climate has fluctuated significantly over the centuries. In particular there have been mini-ice-ages periodically. We were due to have one of these this century but it hasn't happened. Maybe it was cancelled out by CO2 warming. The m-i-a would have been due to abate in the first half of the next century, so there may be a very swift rise in global temperatures beginning about 2050. (Reference: something I read in a popular science magazine, and have partially forgotten). Dick Jackson Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com