World's coral reefs succumbing to global warming

[Sunsettommy]

Here is the report on which those two articles were based. Would you care to show us why you believe the report is untrue? You know, like with actual evidence...

2020 Report – GCRMN

gcrmn.net

From your link:

"However, coral reefs are among the most vulnerable ecosystems on the planet to anthropogenic pressures, including global threats from climate change and ocean acidification,..."

This part has long been shown to be bullshit as they lived through much more rapid temperature and sea level changes thousands of years from the end of the Glaciation phase today it is EASY in comparison.

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"....and local impacts from land-based pollution such as input of nutrients and sediments from agriculture, marine pollution, and overfishing and destructive fishing practices."

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That is where most of the known problems have been discovered going on in recent years but that isn't going to be addressed by the governments since this has been known for a long time but nothing of substance has been done about it as they can't make money and grow power over it.

 

[TeeDub]

The degree is the difference. Yes, coral reefs have cycles but they follow regular patterns. This is rapid change and it's catastrophic. Sorry if that doesn't fit your agenda, it's what's happening all over the world.

And a giant glacier scooped out and melted forming the Great Lakes, change happens. How is man so cocky to think they can prevent change when it is based on science, as we know "science changes" with more information and it is NOT settled.

 

[ding]

Where in heaven's name did you get the idea there had been no ocean warming?

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And it is precisely that warming that is causing coral bleaching. The zooxanthellae involved symbiotically with the coral polyps are sensitive to climatic conditions. Rising temperatures kill them and without their photosynthetic input, the coral die. There is no great mystery here. The oceans are getting warmer due to the greenhouse effect acting on increased GHG levels in the atmosphere and that, of course, is a result of human GHG emissions. That all is some great mystery is one of the more common, commonplace and lazy of denier argumentative techniques. No thanks.

The ocean has been warming for 20,000 years. It's perfectly normal for an interglacial cycle. Especially one that is 2C cooler than past interglacial cycles.

 

[Colin norris]

The ocean has been warming for 20,000 years. It's perfectly normal for an interglacial cycle. Especially one that is 2C cooler than past interglacial cycles.

There are plenty of articles regarding Australia's great barrier reef and the damage done.
Don't be so ignorant to assume you know the facts.

 

[ding]

There are plenty of articles regarding Australia's great barrier reef and the damage done.
Don't be so ignorant to assume you know the facts.

You mean like the facts that as far as interglacial cycles go this is a cooler one? Like 2C cooler than the last one. Don't let your emotions get the better of you.

 

[Sunsettommy]

You mean like the facts that as far as interglacial cycles go this is a cooler one? Like 2C cooler than the last one. Don't let your emotions get the better of you.

They seem oblivious that the Eemian Interglacial was warmer sea level was much higher and Greenland lost around 25% of its ice mass yet Humans Polar Bears and Warmist/alarmists made it through alive and growing.

 

[expat_panama]

You mean like the facts that as far as interglacial cycles go this is a cooler one? Like 2C cooler than the last one. Don't let your emotions get the better of you.

See, that's just the thing. So many folks are saying that there's a coral reef problem that's caused by SUVs but none of them are willing to do the heavy lifting of finding world wide coral reef data or getting believable proxies to show how this is different than what we've had in the past. Instead they're just calling back to some CNN blurb and doom'n'gloom is king.

It is easier I'll grant them that, but it's also lazy and ineffectual.