Pirate's Cove

It’s not like corals have survived for over 500 million years, changing up a bit over that time, including from hot and cold periods, from ice ages, from warmth, from higher and lower seas, from the continents moving around, from underwater volcanoes, from the development of all sorts of sea life, from iceball Earth. I think a small increase in the Earth’s temperature, which is lower than previous Holocene periods, will leave them just fine. But, you know, this is a doomsday cult at work

The Corals That Survive Climate Change Will Be Unrecognizable

Earth belonged to the corals first. And over hundreds of millions of years, they proved themselves remarkably good at adapting to each new version of the planet. As other groups of organisms dropped out of existence, corals endured so many catastrophes that their history reads like a biblical tale of resilience. Through extinctions mass and minor, through volcanic eruptions and asteroid strikes, the corals survived.

Told ya

And for tiny marine animals, they managed to exert tremendous force on the planet’s landscape. Corals have raised whole islands into existence. They are the natural guardians of coastlines; they sustain an estimated quarter of known marine life. If the reefs ringing the Maldives die, an entire nation could erode into the sea. Humans live in these places because corals exist. (snip)

The earliest corals emerged about 500 million years ago, roughly alongside plant life on land. But the modern version of coral reefs appeared a short 4 million years ago, around the time our human ancestors began to walk upright (give or take a few million years). When researchers try to rescue suffering corals, carefully cutting pieces away and transporting them to aquariums, they’re visiting underwater metropolises that are thousands of years old. Despite all that corals have been through, given how fast conditions on Earth are changing, life has likely never been quite as stressful for them as it is now, according to the coral experts Bertrand Martin-Garin and Lucien Montaggioni in their book, Corals and Reefs. (snip)

“These are strange days on planet Earth,” Derek Manzello, a coral-reef ecologist and the coordinator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coral Reef Watch, once told me. The planet used to give corals hundreds of thousands of years to adjust to a new reality; human activities—the burning of fossil fuels but also overfishing and pollution that have brought on global warming—have introduced a rate of change more dramatic than anything else in the geological record. “If we wanted to kill all reef-building corals on the planet, it would be hard to imagine a collection of activities quite as pointed and effective as what we’ve arrived at,” Stuart Sandin, a marine biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, told me.

So, complete doom. How do they know that the rate of change is more dramatic? They have no direct observations. And 1.6F increase since 1850 isn’t dramatic. Volcanoes blowing their lids and immediately causing a year without a summer is dramatic. Anyhow, if Warmists are so concerned why are they not giving up their own use of fossil fuels? Why do none of them ever answer the question except with the deflection “we should all give them up”? Instead we get

Prince Harry Is Coming to New York City to Fight Climate Change

This year, Prince Harry has stepped up his travel schedule to further the work of Archewell, the foundation he started in 2021 alongside his wife, Meghan Markle. In September, Harry is planning to travel to New York City for Climate Week, the annual environmental event series coinciding with the United Nations’ General Assembly. During his trip, he will also attend events for a handful of his patronage organizations, including two with a connection to his late mother, Princess Diana.

“During UN General Assembly High-level Week and Climate Week in New York City, Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, will be in town to advance a number of his patronages and philanthropic initiatives,” said a spokesperson for the prince. “He will participate in engagements with African Parks, The HALO Trust, The Diana Award, and Travalyst.”

So, he’s taking a cross country fossil fueled flight, surely in a private jet, along with all the other travel and use of fossil fueled SUVs, to fight ‘climate change’? Huh.