Maybe if the government created a special tax break for scuba-diving equipment, Republicans might be convinced to give a shit about this.

"Since NOAA's last report in 2005, the Caribbean region has lost at least 50 percent of its corals, largely because sea temperatures have risen, Keeney said."

Read the article: it's the first comprehensive study of it's kind.

It's simple. All life on earth begins and ends with the seas. When the seas die, we all die. The food chains and biospheres that exist today literally will not survive dead oceans. Without the little critters at the bottom of the ocean food chain, the whole ocean biosphere goes. That's what's happening.

There are times when I really grok Al Gore. "Run for President? Love to, but I've got more important things to do. Like, this last ditch attempt to save life on earth, n shit."