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Originally Posted by aerohead
3) Ocean corral reefs are experiencing their 4th mass bleaching event, which are now, two per decade.
4) It takes from ten, to forty years for a corral reef to recover from a bleaching event.
5) Obviously, there's presently not enough time in between events for the corral to recover.
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I recall hearing somewhere that reefs are proliferating, not in decline. Just because there is a moment in time of decline does not mean that is the trajectory, just as whatever the stock market does tomorrow is not an indication of where it will be years later.
This professor says reefs love warm water, which is why you find them in the tropics and nowhere else. Increasing temperatures will cause accelerated growth. Bleaching is not the death of reefs, but a transition in response to environmental change. Corral are not the canaries, but the cockroaches of the sea.
Who wants to fund research that that can't be monetized by panic?