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Originally Posted by sounding
All these claims are easily dismissed with government data at Weather Club meetings. But back to coral - which love warm and CO2 rich waters. This Florida Keys coral image shows that corals (and coral reefs) grew faster millions of years ago when temperatures and CO2 were much higher. In fact, ancient coral reefs are more than a mile thick around the Great Barrier Reef. Corals use CO2 to create calcite (calcium carbonate) to build their hard skeletons (coral reefs). CO2 is food on land and in the waters. Even when CO2 levels were more than 15 times greater than today - the oceans NEVER turned acidic. Enjoy global warming and celebrate increasing CO2.
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There we go back to "millions of years ago".....to which someone twists my arm and I say "so what?" I am talking - the last 15 years - of increased population, big time - and the resulting EXTRA production of CO2 than the earth and the oceans can handle Sure, I believe that all of Florida is built on layers of dead coral. You can see the color of the sand that all the building taking place uses - it is yellow, not pure white. Now, here I admit to just guessing, I GUESS that color would mean coral, but I would NOT be terribly upset if someone knows otherwise. The extra CO2 in the ocean causes acid bleaching of the coral. It is a scientific agreement that world coral will be reduced to 5% around 2080 (look it up). What is reducing coral - extra acid in the water from extra CO2. What else could it be? People ripping off pieces of coral to take home? Coral catching Covid? What is causing the icebergs to melt around the world (and rapidly)? Is it a change of Mars orbit? Or is it the rapid increase of earth population?