NASA predicts a 99% decline in corals at 2C warming, which could occur by 2050.
The greatest expansion of ocean life (including the appearance of corals and shellfish) occurred 540 million years ago, with CO2 levels fifteen times higher than now and temperatures 15C warmer.
The world’s largest coral reef has record amounts of coral
Highest coral cover in central, northern Reef in 36 years | AIMS
In 1954, the US blew up a hydrogen bomb at Bikini Island and raised water temperatures 99,000F. Corals are thriving there now.
National Geographic News Photo Gallery: CCorals Flourish at ”Nuked” Atoll
It is amazing how many “experts” and “scientists” have never taken a first year course in Geology. Anyone who has ever gone snorkeling or diving would also know that corals live in warm water not cold. Any well travelled 7 year old could tell you that.
The brainwashing has been going on for a very long time.
Back in the late ’80s when I was learning to scuba dive, I was taught that bleached corals were because of global warming – that they are so fragile only a couple degrees change in temperature will destroy them all.
Despite the fact that they lived for millions of years in much warmer water. Well, they could have adapted to cooler water, but they certainly have it in their DNA to adapt again to warmer water. Can you repost your link to the temperature anomaly graph for the last 450,000 years? I’m trying to make a tee-shirt using it, and I would like the source, if I get challenged on it.
I really cannot understand how anyone with decent eyesight and intact critical thinking ability is able to look at the graph of CO2 levels and temperature over geologic time and not see that: 1) CO2 lags temperature, and 2) CO2 has absolutely zero effect on temerature. These climate people apparently do not consider the fact that, at one point 450 million years ago, CO2 levels were 10 times higher than today, and yet the world was in the middle of an absolutely brutal ice age which went on for millions of years.
“Climate change” is a stellar example of absolute ignorance and bad science coupled with bad intentions and corruption. And, interestingly, it seems pretty clear that, if anything, the world is slowly heading towards another ice age, just as was truthfully claimed in the 1970s and 1980s. I await with baited breath for the narrative to change once again, and we’ll hear the hysterical pronunciations of another ice age coming, and, of course, it will be all mankind’s fault.