The ocean gets something like osteoporosis | James Bruggers - Watchdog Earth
►http://blogs.courier-journal.com/watchdogearth/2011/10/22/the-ocean-gets-something-like-osteoporosis
NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco said coral reefs and ocean acidification is the most underreported scientific story today.
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But warming waters are causing a bleaching of coral that can turn fatal
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“It’s not like dropping an Alka Seltzer in a glass of water and they start fizzing away,” said Mark Eakin, a NOAA scientist. “What we are seeing is something more like osteoporosis.”