Chicken Little

[Ernie Matson]

Alan,

Thanks for the reference.  I brought this issue up because, much to my
dismay, I heard several talks at the
9th ICRS in which those associations and domino relationships (global
warming> El Nino > coral bleaching) were presented as being accepted
dogma.  It is unfortunate that "we" are being quoted by the media as
generally believing in these hypotheses as though they were fact.

Carry on
Ernie

Alan E Strong wrote:

> For those who continue to "believe" that ENSO and global
> climate change (i.e. warming) are related positively with
> the warm phase (El Nino), the statitiscs just do not support
> that theory.  Read the latest evidence being reported in a
> recent issue of Nature: Vol 407: 956 & 989!
>
> AE Strong
>
> Ernie Matson wrote:
> >
> > ...and while we're at it, how 'bout a reference
> > establishing cause ("global warming") and effect:
> > ("El Nino")...(sic after both) and subsequent coral
> > bleaching?
> >
> > Ernie Matson
> >
> > mjrtom999 wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >     There was some mail being bounced around here
> > > recently about the corals
> > > being gone in the next 20 years or so..? can someone
> > > please get me the
> > > original refernce source for that "fact"?
> > > I would be very much appreciative
> > > thank you much
> > > -tomas oberding
>
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