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This is good news if it can be used large-scale.
Scientists in Australia say they have found a way to help coral reefs fight the devastating effects of bleaching by making them more heat-resistant.
Rising sea temperatures make corals expel tiny algae which live inside them. This turns the corals white and effectively starves them.
In response, researchers have developed a lab-grown strain of microalgae which is more tolerant to heat.
When injected back into the coral, the algae can handle warmer water better.
The researchers believe their findings may help in the effort to restore coral reefs, which they say are "suffering mass mortalities from marine heatwaves".
Coral bleaching: Scientists 'find way to make coral more heat-resistant' - BBC News
This is good news if it can be used large-scale.
Coral may not need the help.
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[h=1]CSIRO Scientists Accidentally Prove Coral Rapidly Adapts to Global Warming[/h][FONT="]Guest essay by Eric Worrall CSIRO Scientists have subjected coral symbiont algae to heat stress over four years, and produces a strain of algae which can help coral thrive in temperatures which normally cause coral bleaching. They hope the new heat resistant algae can be useful for inoculating reefs suffering heat stress. Scientists successfully develop…
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This guy thinks that selective breeding in a lab is the same as what normal climate fluctuations and natural selection would do over thousands of years.
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What an idiot.
Its a lot easer to spray paint a bunch of rocks with vivid tropical colors, dump em over the coral beds. From the surface looks just like coral. Cheap, easy. No fuss.
CSIRO: [FONT="]Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [/FONT]
This research was conducted by CSIRO in partnership with AIMS and the University of Melbourne. It was funded by CSIRO, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation (U.S.A.), AIMS and the University of Melbourne
Source: CSIRO
I should have known my comment would be beyond your comprehension.
I wasn't talking about the scientists at CSIRO. What they are doing is great and may help save the planet's reefs.
I was talking about the idiot WUWT author Eric Worrall who isn't smart enough to realize that what CSIRO did in the lab does not prove that corals can rapidly adapt to climate change.
You would have done better to actually read what "the idiot WUWT author Eric Worrall" wrote:
[FONT="]"Its great news that scientists have developed heat resistant algae, which could be used to inoculate reefs suffering heat stress.[/FONT]
[FONT="]But do coral reefs really need human help?[/FONT]
[FONT="]My question, and I know it might seem radical; do you think it is possible that if the entire ocean warms up, natural selection on a global scale might rapidly replicate what scientists managed to achieve by heat stressing algae in their lab tank?"[/FONT]
I read the whole artilcle.
Are you saying that just because this idiot asked this stupid question in the article that it makes it o.k. to lie about it in the title?
There's no lie anywhere, and your hate only harms you.
Jack, the title of the article is a lie. Are you really unable to understand and acknowledge this or are you just lying about it?
The title is fine.
Really? I'll bet you can't back up that title and it's lie that selective breeding in a lab proves corals can rapidly adapt to global warming without using another stupid one-liner response.
The entire post backs it up.
[FONT="]"CSIRO Scientists have subjected coral symbiont algae to heat stress over four years, and produces a strain of algae which can help coral thrive in temperatures which normally cause coral bleaching. They hope the new heat resistant algae can be useful for inoculating reefs suffering heat stress. . . ."[/FONT]
:lamo
Another one-liner and another cut and paste that doesn't back up the title.
And just for your information, just because scientists did something in a lab that does not prove that it can happen the same in nature. Anyone who really understands science knows this.
You obviously don't understand science.
Just more denial.
I'm not the one denying the result of peer-reviewed research.
I'm not denying the science. I am denying the falsehood in the title of your idiotic cut and paste.
You don't even know the difference!
:lamo
No. You're denying the science, and apparently venting your anger about something unrelated to the topic.
Now you are just lying.
Later Jack. See you on your next false or misleading cut and paste.
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