We Are Scientists #02

In 1998 almost every speices of coral reef was affected by the high sea surface temperatures. This also happened during the El Nino time. If you are wondering how they started to get affected, well they started to get bleached and their mortality went up. Scientist say some coral reef speices will be gone by 2020. This coral reef can be very very colorful with fish all around when healthy. But the bleaching causes them to turn white and look dead. Check this website out, http://www.globalissues.org/article/173/coral-reefs

We have to stop climate change. It is said that if global warming can not be reduced or stopped, it will steadily increase annually and become stronger and stronger. This would destroy the coral reefs whole speices. It would cause so much destroctuion to this marine life that they could becom extinct by 2100. These coral reefs are very fragile and take a long time to recover. Since it will only get warmer, I think climate change will only make water qaulities worse. I think the future will be bad. Many speices of life will be extinct.