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Yep. I had my doubts too back then. But, like the scientist, denial became impossible position to hold once the numbers came in.In 2016 and 2017, marine heat waves caused by climate change resulted in mass bleaching, which killed about half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef, along with many others around the world.
"Somewhere between a quarter and a third of all marine species everywhere has some part of their life cycle in coral reefs," he says. "So, you take out coral reefs and a third to a quarter of all species gets wiped out. Now that is ecological chaos, it is ecological collapse."
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"I was a climate change skeptic, at first," he says. He realized that climate change was "serious" in the mid-1980s, and around 1990 he became "alarmed" about its impact on coral reefs.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/08/world/great-barrier-reef/
Does the math; figure I have 25 years left. Damn! I doubt I get out of here before SHTF.