Israeli coral reefs go bye-bye

[admiral_ju00]

What a pity.

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/07/07/environment.israel.corals.reut/index.html

[5614]

indeed, what a pity

 

and at a time when israel needs tourists as well!

well, that whole area [middle east] needs tourists!

[Martin]

What a pity.

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/07/07/environment.israel.corals.reut/index.html

 

this is part of a wider problem (I should say disaster or tragedy)

of dying of coral reefs

Large areas of beautiful coral reefs have been bleached white

by simply the rise of a few degrees in ocean temperature with

global warming.

 

One time we went to French polynesia (e.g. Bora Bora near Tahiti)

expecting to find wonderful colorful thriving reefs that we had been

told about----it was all dead and bleached white.

 

Later I read of efforts by French biologists to save the dying coral----there seem to be many reasons but the temperature rise is the most inexorable

 

this article says that the local cause around Eilat is the excess nitrogen from fish farming---which is proved because on the Egyptian side around Aqaba there are no fishfarms and the coral is still vital.

The article says that the extra nitrogen causes plankton that makes the water cloudy (notice also that to enjoy the beauty of the coral one should have clear water too, not clouded by plankton----the murk kills the coral and also makes it difficult to enjoy the little that remains)

 

this is just one bad thing out of many bad things that can happen!

 

I do not understand how a temperature rise can kill coral, but it does.

 

(of course Bush is a monster for pulling the US out of Kyoto carbon treaty

but that too is part of a larger problem)