Global warming may push seaweeds over the edge (of continental shelf and into extinction)

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Warming ocean waters could force hundreds of Australian seaweed species to shift southward in search of cooler waters, and eventually, force them off Australia's continental shelf, and possibly into extinction, according to a study...

"We found that temperate seaweed communities have changed over the past 50 years to become increasingly subtropical, and that many temperate species have retreated south towards the Australian south coast," Wernberg said...

"By extending the observed rates of poleward retreat to other species in the southern Australian seaweed flora, we estimated that projected ocean warming could lead to several hundred species retracting south and beyond the edge of the Australian continent, where they will have no suitable habitat and may therefore go extinct," he said.

more ... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45068038/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/global-warming-may-push-seaweeds-over-edge

Of course, as the whole global warming thing is a left-wing conspiracy, there is really no need to be concerned.

So, go back to sleep.