Corals thrive in multiple-degrees-warmer-than-today waters and their growth is stunted in cooler environments.
The warnings peddled by climate alarmists often characterize Earth’s 500 billion corals as critically endangered by modern global warming.
But the science itself says corals have been and continue thriving in the Current Warm Period – just as they have in past warm periods.
Within the span of a few pages, one study (Long et al., 2022) squelches at least 4 false climate alarm narratives.
Scientists have determined:
- Coral reefs “develop rapidly in the warm period” (Roman, Medieval), and “coral reefs develop slowly in the cold period” (Little Ice Age, the Dark Ages Cold Period). Why? Because “warm periods are conducive to coral growth.”
- Coral reef growth rates have rapidly accelerated in the last 300 years, or since the industrial revolution commenced.
- Sea levels were 2 meters higher than they are today ~4,000 years ago, and still about 1 meter higher than today 1,000 years ago, or during the Medieval Warm Period. Lower sea levels produce a “decline in the coral reef development rate”.
- The South China Sea surface temperatures were “3 to 6°C higher than today” from about 5,000 to 4,000 years ago; coral reefs developed rapidly in that warmth.
How much attention will an iconoclastic study like this receive? None, probably. Studies that don’t advance the climate alarm narrative are usually dismissed and ignored.
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I am always amazed at how people look at calcium carbonate formation. Let’s ignore the biochemistry for a second and just look at the solubility of calcium carbonate in water exposed to air the link below
https://www.bing.com/search?q=solubility%20of%20calcium%20carbonate%20in%20seawater%20vs.%20temperature&qs=n&form=QBRE&=%25eManage%20Your%20Search%20History%25E&sp=-1&pq=solubility%20of%20calcium%20carbonate%20in%20water%20vs.%20temperature&sc=1-56&sk=&cvid=CB4D1D0D1E9846D68CC463FB6D4A03F9
The solubility goes up as the temperature goes down due to the stability of calcium bi-carbonate. It’s no surprise that one thing needed to form limestone deposits is WARM shallow seas. Deep seas are too cold and the calcium carbonate can redissolve.
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Coral must be tough characters.
I’ve been hearing stories
about dying coral since the 1960s.
But there are now more than ever before.
They must be “zombie corals”?
Or maybe people secretly replaced
dead coral with plastic versions?
I suppose most of the “studies” are computer games?
Too much trouble to put on scuba gear and look.
Looking out from an airplane is also deceptive.
The best “study” might be interviewing people
who own salt water fish tanks that include coral.
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