[ Scubadiving with Empire ] Re: [ Scubadiving with Empire ] Dive the reefs now before it is too late!

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The article initially references global warming as "partly to blame"
in the initial paragraph.  It isn't until the second paragraph that we
find the "real culprit", "increased pollutants, such as runoff from
construction sites and toxins from boat paints".

On its own, global warming has nothing to do with the health of the
reefs, as the worlds temperature was, on average, a couple degrees
warmer in the 12th century than it s now and the reefs managed to
survive just fine.

That just really bugs me as I see people protesting global warming all
the time and I practically never see people carrying placards or
writing letters about the sewers lines in Southern California that run
directly to the ocean.

Again, in the third paragraph from the end of the article, global
warming is called out on its own.  Then, in the second paragraph from
the end, we again hear about toxins in conjunction with a new source
(green algea), then in the final paragraph global warming is again
singled out as one of the root causes.

If that much attention was regularly paid to the crap that we're
literally dumping straight into the ocean on a regular basis, (in the
Boston Harbor, the New York Harbor, San Diego County, etc.) our oceans
would be much better off.

Bart