GBR, Indian Ocean, South China Sea Corals Have Experienced No Obvious Modern Warming
By Kenneth Richard on 21. October 2021
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New temperature reconstructions using coral skeletons as proxies reveal there has been no apparent net warming in the Great Barrier Reef, central Indian Ocean, and South China Sea since the 19th century – or even in recent decades.
Coral skeletons can be used as proxies to reconstruct 1870s-present sea surface temperatures “throughout the Great Barrier Reef”. Evidence of dramatic warming aligning with the post-1940s rise in CO2 emissions is absent in the reconstructions.
Wu et al., 2021
Image Source: Wu et al., 2021
The central Indian Ocean is home to a large swathe of the Earth’s coral reefs. The amplitude of the positive temperature anomalies (Tmax) during El Nino events was the same (1.4°C) in 1830-1929 as it was from 1965-1995. Peak anomalies in the 1600s and 1700s were, however, about 0.9°C warmer (2.2°C) than the peaks in the 19th and 20th centuries (1.3°C).
https://notrickszone.com/2021/10/21/gbr-indian-ocean-south-china-sea-corals-have-experienced-no-obvious-modern-warming/
