"By turning back time in this way, they demonstrate that -- all things being equal -- net coral-reef calcification would have been around seven percent higher than at present," Janice Lough, a scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, noted in a comment, also published in Nature.
Date: Feb 25, 2016
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Global warming: Coral reefs will change ... and not for the better, experts ...
Tropical coral reef waters are already significantly warmer than they were and the rate of warming is accelerating, said Janice Lough, of the Australian Institute of Marine Science. With or without drastic curtailment of greenhouse gas emissions we are facing, for the foreseeable future, changes