By Paul Homewood
The Heartland Institute have introduced an important new website, Climate at a Glance, which present short one or two page factchecks about many of the topics involving both climate and energy issues.
I will try and publish one topic each day, but it is well worth bookmarking their site for future reference. I will tag each post as “Factcheck”, and there is also a Factcheck tag at the top of my website.
Today, I’ll start with the subject of coral reefs:
A thriving coral reef. Photo by Francesco Ungaro. Licensed from pexels.com
Bullet Point Summary:
- Coral thrive in warm water, not cold water.
- Recent warming has allowed coral to expand their range poleward, while still thriving near the equator.
- Coral has existed continuously for the past 40 million years, surviving temperatures and carbon dioxide levels significantly higher than what is occurring today.
- The primary causes…
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