{"id":399,"date":"2009-07-28T08:04:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T07:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=399"},"modified":"2009-07-28T08:04:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T07:04:17","slug":"from-pristine-reefs-to-coral-wastelands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/28\/from-pristine-reefs-to-coral-wastelands\/","title":{"rendered":"From pristine reefs to coral wastelands"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>News Watch, Honolulu Advertiser, July 26, 2009<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/cmsimg.honoluluadvertiser.com\/apps\/pbcsi.dll\/bilde?Site=M1&amp;Date=20090726&amp;Category=NEWS11&amp;ArtNo=907260359&amp;Ref=AR&amp;MaxW=298&amp;Q=90&amp;NoBorder\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"238\" \/>The scientific projections are ominous.<\/p>\n<p>If substantial steps aren&#8217;t taken globally to counter the effects of climate change, reefs in Hawai&#8217;i and around the world eventually could become coral wastelands, decimated by increasingly acidic and warming ocean waters.<\/p>\n<p>Some scientists say such a scenario, which would wreak havoc with Hawai&#8217;i&#8217;s fisheries and the state economy, could come by the end of the century, perhaps even a few decades sooner. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>One wild card is whether corals, resilient organisms that can rebound from some major stresses, will be able to adapt to climate change-related chemical alterations in the environment that are occurring at rates not seen for millions of years.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists also are uncertain whether the predicted effects will happen as quickly or as severely as the models indicate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thing to worry about is not that it will be as bad as we think,&#8221; said Paul Jokiel, researcher at the Hawai&#8217;i Institute of Marine Biology. &#8220;It&#8217;s that it will be much worse than we think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.honoluluadvertiser.com\/article\/20090726\/NEWS11\/907260359\/From+pristine+reefs+to+coral+wastelands*From\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Watch, Honolulu Advertiser, July 26, 2009 The scientific projections are ominous. If substantial steps aren&#8217;t taken globally to counter the effects of climate change, reefs in Hawai&#8217;i and around the world eventually could become coral wastelands, decimated by increasingly acidic and warming ocean waters. Some scientists say such a scenario, which would wreak havoc &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/28\/from-pristine-reefs-to-coral-wastelands\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From pristine reefs to coral wastelands&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian-monk-seal","tag-papahanaumokuakea-marine-national-monument"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}