Some corals could survive global warming, say scientists. An international team, working in the central Pacific, has discovered that coral, which has survived heat stress in the past, is more likely to survive it in the future, the PLoS One journal reported.
The research paves the way towards an important roadmap on the impacts of ocean warming, and will help biologists identify the habitats and locations where coral reefs are more likely to adapt to climate change.
“We’re starting to identify the types of reef environments where corals are more likely to persist in the future. The new data is critical for predicting the future for coral reefs, and for planning how society will cope in that future,” said Prof. Simon Donner at the University of British Columbia, who led the research.
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Corals evolved with temperatures 10C higher than at present. If conditions become unfavorable in one location, they simply move somewhere else. Coral reefs are found in the geologic record in rocks all over the planet.
The concept you are looking for is ‘alleles’.
The reason the hippies avoid it like the plague is because grasping what alleles are, greatly interferes with the Narrative of Evolution, since it pretty much defines what Natural Selection IS, and at the same time states what the fossil-record ACTUALLY shows – which will then necessarily NOT be Evolution.
Damned liars…
Now I will never know what I am. I could be either a Homozyglot or a Hetrozyglot or both at the sane time.
With me it is possible I fit the “Wild type” Allele. Whew! what a relief I thought someone was going to call me normal.
You isa smart person Steven, but I do now wonder if you will bother following the white rabbit…
Oh well, water, horse, all that. What is falling for just one more hippie misconception, right? As long as it is true, what does it matter if it is composed of nothing but lies, right?
Sigh.
The fact that these “scientists” think that there is any question whether corals will survive a modest warming—in fact we are actually cooling—is laughable. We know that there have been much larger temperature shifts in the past and the corals are still with us. The cliffs of Dover were not built during a cold period with low CO2!
How on Earth do they think that these organisms are suddenly so temperature sensitive? This is pea-brain thinking at its best. But, then again, they need to do what they can to write papers and stories to support their need for global warming funding.
… stories …
I think ‘narratives’ is the correct newspeak term.
Hey,
did you see that the newest data is that coral bleaching may be caused by herpes?
(just web search for ref).
Appears the problem with Climate is that certain folk are a bit too promiscuous!
So, some corals may survive climate but not researchers “messing around”!
As many a marine scientist has pointed out, some coral types are quite robust and can survive quite wide temperature, acid/alkaline, and salination ranges. Others are fragile and don’t.