Warming threat to Antarctic marine life


	Warming threat to Antarctic marine life

monizle

2-15-2008 6:27 PM

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2-15-2008 6:48 PM

constantskeptic

isn't there going to be an opportunity for new species to evolve as well? if darwin is correct we should see evolution taking place, not species disappearing

2-15-2008 8:05 PM

papananook

Except the human species, which will disappear if we keep killing the oceans with pollution of all kinds--plastics, pesticides, toxic fertiliaers mercury, depleted uranium, ad nausem...b'bye, homo sapiens!

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</P><P><FONT size="2"><B>Unique marine life in Antarctica will be at risk from an invasion of sharks, crabs and other predators if global warming continues, scientists warn. </B>
</FONT></P><P><FONT size="2">Crabs are poised to return to the Antarctic shallows, threatening creatures such as giant sea spiders and floppy ribbon worms that have evolved without predators for tens of millions of years, says a UK-US team. 
</FONT></P><P><FONT size="2">Bony fish and sharks would move in if waters warm further, threatening some species with extinction, they say. 
</FONT></P><P><FONT size="2">In the last 50 years, sea surface temperatures around Antarctica have risen by 1 to 2C, which is more than twice the global average. 
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</FONT></P><P><FONT size="2">Speaking in Boston at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the researchers said global warming could fundamentally change the ecosystem, leading to the loss of some speci</FONT></P></TD></TR></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/546F9A3C-FF1A-46D2-BC82-F021B4E4CE96/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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