April 05, 2005

4/5 - The Coral Reef Slippery Slope to Slime Paper: What's not to like?

Certain coral reef scientists are quite irate at the moment. No doubt about it. Definitely in Florida, maybe in Hawai'i, too. And yet I don't see how you could not like a paper that simply calls attention to the sad state of decline of American (i.e. Floridian) coral reefs and urges increased efforts in addressing all sources of coral reef stress. Maybe somebody wants to explain to me what's not to like in this article? Here is the article itself. Download file
slippery graph.jpg
A simple sample from the slippery slope statement.

Posted by Randy Olson at April 5, 2005 01:50 AM