Global warming is the measure of the total amount of energy in Earth's environment. In other words the average temperature during the year. Local conditions vary widely, and are much harder to predict than the overall trend (which is well defined).
In general, global warming is expected to increase the number and severity of extreme weather events. Indeed, data on the number of such events shows a clear trend that agrees with predictions.
So this type of thing generally supports the predictions about global warming.
>Is this another nail in the Global Warming coffin?
No... you can't extrapolate a global trends over decades by one weather event... just as a heatwave doesn't support Global Warming. Your question seems to imply that there is serious doubt about the existence of Global Warming. There isn't! What the anti GW crowd don't seem to understand is that, even if the some of the assumptions are completely wrong ( far less consensus here ), since it is an existential threat, it must be taken seriously.
How do they know the corals have been dying? Where's the raw data to support their claim. they should have an effective control, where the water hasn't been as cold, like Greenland o make this study of any use. Just another part of the huge global conspiracy...:)
Shoot we can barely forecast rain...looking 1 week into the future is generally way off base. We are predicting global warming several decades down the road? haha
We should worry more on o-zone layer being destroyed completely than a 1-6 degree C of warming over several decades.
Shoot at least o-zone restricts uvb rays which causes burns, dna mutations, cancer, cataracts, and plant pop damage, which is the base of our food chain.
If you take away the grass, you take away the cows...if you take away the cows..I'll be very angry because I like my steak.
In general, global warming is expected to increase the number and severity of extreme weather events.
Not this "increased extreme weather events" BS again. According to AGW hypothesis polar regions are expected to warm up the most, so this would diminish temperature gradients, wouldn't it?
dachpyarvile signing in and chiming in. Ignore the Dachpyarviie sockpuppet of MikeyK behind the curtain.
We know corals have been dying from the extreme cold because we can look at them and see that the coral animals indeed are dead. Further evidence of this can be seen in the fact that one actually can see various kinds of damage caused by extreme cold--if one knows what to look for.
There is no real need for a control when making visual observations of this kind. The recorded observations in this case are the raw data. That the sockpuppet above does not understand such things is evidence enough that he is clueless.
PeterROwen
Jan 30, 2010