[Coral-List] Ocean acidification beneficial in short term to corals.

[Lane W]

Good information Eugene, Thank you.
And thank you to all the others who have also put forward their input.

My take away from Coral Growth Rate as an Environmental Indicator
when used as CO2 and temperature historical data is at-least as fuzzy
as using tree ring data to determine historical CO2 and Temperature.

This is off topic for this group.
I added only to support my response.
Does Tree Ring Study Question Global Warming Projections?
<http://www.flmrg.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=68>


Lane Weast
Florida Marine Research Group
http://www.flmrg.org



On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Eugene Shinn <eugeneshinn at mail.usf.edu>
wrote:

> Lane says " This seems contrary to has been taught"  This elegant
> experiment demonstrates. That growth rate increased between 25 and 28
> degrees C was not a surprise. (that was clearly shown with A.
> /cervicornis/ in my simple paper "Coral Growth Rate an environmental
> indicator" back in 1966. Many others have seen the same. However, that
> calcification increased in sea water (admittedly artificial sea water)
> containing up to 600ppm Co2 was a surprise. Even more surprising was
> that calcification rate at 2500 ppm (pCO2 uatm) was essentially the same
> as at the pre industrial level of 324 ppm (see fig 3). Gene
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