Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real

Happy thought of the day:

None of us are getting out of this thing alive ... no one.

 

I was told on another thread that nobody needs a spaceship to be happy. This is proof that they are wrong.

 

Exactly what I'm talking about. As an avid scuba diver I've seen the destruction first hand, On the Great Barrier at that. The Oceans cover over 71% of the Earth's surface, to me its an obvious indicator and should be a focal point of analysis in this debate.

 

Largest single organism in the World dying since 1960, the rise of the car across the world. Now 1/3 of all reefs have died across the world since the 60's. I'm still searching, but I've yet to find a more compelling arguement for why the reefs are on an imenent path to destruction by 2050.

 

Reducing fossil fuels (the leading contributor to the so-called greenhouse affect) is the right way to go.....on many different levels.

That said, it would still take decades for the U.S. to eliminate the need/use for said fuels. Therefore, I'm still in favor of the US to increase drilling as to reduce dependence on foreign oil.

 

I'll throw out a SWAG (scientific wild ass guess). If you forced me to guess, I'd say that with as much garbage and nitrate pollution as we pump into the oceans and the exponential growth of the Earth's human population (and thus an exponential increase in waste) reefs are probably suffering from damage due to pollution.

Sea level rise or warming of the globe might be to blame, but the places where reefs grow are pretty darned warm already and there hasn't been enough appreciable change in sea level in a mere 40 years to significantly alter reef habitat (temp, depth, pressure, UV levels, etc.).

But like I said, I'm just guessing.