Most coral disappeared during the PETM. Coral may well survive now, but the existing reefs won't, and impact to humans, ecosystems, food sources and economies scale with cover, not survival. They survived by moving and adapting, of course, but pace is key...
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Yes, that's the question, and what they do over millennia when change is less abrupt. You need living coral to reproduce & move, and they're dying off in escalating numbers. You also need centuries to rebuild reefs that produce the biodiversity of a GBR. http://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/viewArticle/1352 …
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But humans could seed new areas in a few years.
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Coral takes a lot of time to build up and it's a biodiversity keystone, so we might stock up on floating mobile coral reefspic.twitter.com/wXExC9tndS
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Kind of like The Eden Project undertaken by MU?
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Mobile Coral. I have to see that. I hope the clownfish can keep up.pic.twitter.com/YUYxtMheB5
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Evidence shows plants and wildlife are moving up mountains as their sweet spot changes. Can't we make the mountains higher as temps climb? And what prevents agriculture from “moving” toward places that become just right? Transition costs? Meh.
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Then everyone will move to Colorado. It avoids hurricanes, fires, earthquakes, had perfect weather during the terrible storms off the Atlantic and has a pretty good energy policy.
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) so if there is an area you are particularly looking for new links I'm happy to send/suggest. Most contrarian blogs aren't primary sources, so I don't store many, but I do for real/published papers (Zwally, Lewis et al)