O/T:- Climate Change

[Magpies1959]

Things like being told the coral reefs are dying due to bleaching, caused by Co2, only to find that it is cyclical, and 5 to 10 years later they have replenished, does sort of make it easy to disbelieve anything else we are told.

[OchPie]

Things like being told the coral reefs are dying due to bleaching, caused by Co2, only to find that it is cyclical, and 5 to 10 years later they have replenished, does sort of make it easy to disbelieve anything else we are told.

It'd be nice if that were what happened.

Some coral recovers from bleaching, and some doesn't. The more bleaching happens, the harder it seems to be for coral to recover in general. The average interval between bleaching events has halved between 1980 and 2016.

The worst fears about coral have not come to pass, but coverage continues to decline. It's been cut in half in the pasts 70 years.