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> All due to runaway global warming acidifying the ocean with CO2

Err, what? My understanding is ocean acidification is a contributing factor, but that the primary cause of coral bleaching is the warming directly, not acidification [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coral_Bleaching.jpg



Warming is the primary cause of coral die offs right now, but acidification will hit a tipping point pretty soon where it becomes nigh on impossible to get calcium ions out of solution. Pretty much anything that lives in the ocean and has a skeleton is in for a rough time - as well as everything that depends on them.


I'm not necessarily skeptical of the overall trend, but I'd be very interested in a citation on this.




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