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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (118771)	8/19/2009 4:42:32 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541790

I've missed the boat here on this one. There's a relationship between the planet getting warmer and the ocean's ability to retain (absorb?) CO2 which, I think, helps form calcium carbonate (?) in seawater which is used by reef animals to build reefs, and other crustaceans to build shells, but reefs are particularly important both as the foundation for the myriad of reef life dependent upon it and also for protection of many coastlines and atolls from erosion and rising seas. And what scientists have documented is that many reefs rate of growth has vastly slowed or in fact have stopped growing altogether. Sulphur, (I think--not sure) the by product of strip mining in the Canadian oil sands, has the ability to restore reefs by combining with elements in the sea to produce more Calcium Carbonate. Need to find a cite for you.