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Coral Reefs In Grave Danger, Say Climate Simulations
sciencehabit writes "Nearly every coral reef could be dying by 2100 if current carbon dioxide emission trends continue, according to a new review of major climate models from around the world. The only way to maintain the current chemical environment in which reefs now live, the study suggests, would be to deeply cut emissions as soon as possible. It may even become necessary to actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, say with massive tree-planting efforts or machines."
Because a couple of decades ago, the climate change faithful were telling us that by 2020 the world would be frozen solid, with glaciers as far south as the Mediterranean Sea.
If dire prophecies of the magic carbon pixie believers that I learned in primary school had come true, up here at 56ÂN I'd be under 100m of ice - but that hasn't happened. However, the absolutely rock solid certain scientific evidence was that the Earth was cooling faster than it had ever cooled before. Now we skip forwards three decades, and the Earth is now warming faster than it ever has before. Apparently.