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By Kenneth Richard on 24. February 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterCorals 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 […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 14. February 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterIn 2021, several hundred more scientific papers were published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise serve to question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and mainstream media sources. These scientific papers […]
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By P Gosselin on 10. December 2021
Share this… Facebook TwitterA German analysis finds that the threatening scenarios about the imminent death of all coral reefs in a recent study cannot be justified. ==================================================== The corals off East Africa, doomed to extinction? By Frank Bosse Kalte Sonne (Translated, edited by P. Gosselin) An agency report startles readers: “All coral reefs in the […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 2. December 2021
Share this… Facebook TwitterFor decades Great Barrier Reef (GBR) warming and coral bleaching have often been assumed to be driven by human greenhouse gas emissions and/or El Niño events. But a new study finds a much larger and more robust correlation between natural cloud cover modulation of solar radiation, shallow-water warming, and bleaching. It has […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 21. October 2021
Share this… Facebook TwitterNew temperature reconstructions using coral skeletons as proxies reveal there has been no apparent net warming in the Great Barrier Reef, central Indian Ocean, and South China Sea since the 19th century – or even in recent decades. Coral skeletons can be used as proxies to reconstruct 1870s-present sea surface temperatures “throughout […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 29. January 2021
Share this… Facebook Twitter In 2020, more than 400 scientific papers were published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise serve to question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and mainstream media sources. Over 400 […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 18. January 2021
Share this… Facebook TwitterMid-Holocene South China Sea maximum temperatures were ~3.5°C warmer (33.5°C vs. today’s 29.9°C) about 5000 yrs ago, when corals experienced an “optimum coral growth period”. There were “numerous coral bleaching episodes” even when temperatures weren’t as high, as coral bleaching is naturally occurring. Key points from a new study (Wang et al., […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 31. December 2020
Share this… Facebook TwitterA new study affirms coral reefs grow when seas are warm and rising. Growth “shuts off” during colder, falling sea level periods. Consequently, the Great Barrier Reef has experienced growth in the last 150 years – especially in recent decades. During the Last Glacial Maximum (~30,000 to 15,000 years ago), when Great […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 29. June 2020
Share this… Facebook TwitterMarine species subjected to high CO2 extremes – 8,891 to 95,000 ppm – in their natural environments may not be adversely affected. They may even “thrive”. Earlier this year we highlighted a study that says coral reefs “thrive” near seafloor volcanic vents where CO2 concentrations reach 60,000 to 95,000 ppm. Image Source: PHYS.ORG […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 30. March 2020
Share this… Facebook TwitterThough it’s believed the 130 ppm increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration since 1750 has caused the ocean waters to “acidify”, on a daily basis 50-380°C metallic acid enriched by CO2 concentrations reaching 60,000 to 95,000 ppm pours through seafloor vents. Nearby coral reefs “thrive” in these high-CO2 conditions. Image Source: PHYS.ORG 50 […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 30. January 2020
Share this… Facebook TwitterIn 2019, more than 440 scientific papers were published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise serve to question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and mainstream media sources. Image Source: Collins […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 4. November 2019
Share this… Facebook TwitterAs reported in 4 separately-published papers, scientists have discovered a mechanism whereby islands can build themselves up naturally, thwarting the threat of sea level rise. Tuck et al. (2019) affirm the “implications of island building are profound, as it will offset existing scenarios of dramatic increases in island flooding.” Earlier this year, […]
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