"0NB0Z" <0NB0Z@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> You know those scare campaigns every few years about the Great Barrier
> Reef facing extinction thanks to global warming?
>
> Relax. It turns out that coral is actually so tough you couldn't kill it
> with a nuclear bomb. In fact, much of the stuff just grows back fine,
> the seas are so coral-friendly these days:
And yet the ocean's coral is dying at a rapid rate.
This tells me that man's subtle but persistant influence on the ocean is
more destructive than a nuclear weapon.