Great Barrier Reef May Be World's 1st Gobal Ecosystem to Collapse


	Great Barrier Reef May Be World's 1st Gobal Ecosystem to Collapse

vk2yoc

7-22-2009 4:42 AM

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global warming, ecological disaster, natural wonder

vk2yoc says:

Here it's the middle of winter, 27 degrees C, hottest July day on record, this is scary stuff.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d83c46fe-f673-4731-b5ab-d9ce20f53d6a/C8E099D1-596C-49E1-AF59-FE4919D43B53/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/07/life-at-the-edge-great-barrier-reef-could-be-worlds-1st-gobal-ecosystem-to-collapse.html" href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/07/life-at-the-edge-great-barrier-reef-could-be-worlds-1st-gobal-ecosystem-to-collapse.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailygalaxy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/07/life-at-the-edge-great-barrier-reef-could-be-worlds-1st-gobal-ecosystem-to-collapse.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailygalaxy.com/img/383E7246-84F1-4B0E-BB31-D5B9FFF09A9D" alt="Greatbarrierreef-pia03401" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/07/life-at-the-edge-great-barrier-reef-could-be-worlds-1st-gobal-ecosystem-to-collapse.html"> The Great Barrier Reef will be so degraded by warming waters that it will be unrecognizable within 20 years, according Charlie Veron, former chief scientist of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, at a conference in London: “There is no way out, no loopholes. The Great Barrier Reef will be over within 20 years or so. They would be the world’s first global ecosystem to collapse. I have the backing of every coral reef scientist, every research organization. I’ve spoken to them all. This is critical. This is reality</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/07/life-at-the-edge-great-barrier-reef-could-be-worlds-1st-gobal-ecosystem-to-collapse.html"><P>Dr Veron’s comments came as the Zoological Society of London, the Royal
Society and the International Programme on the State of the Ocean
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yesterday. In a joint statement they warned that by mid-century
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