New Study Indicates Coral Presence Around Japan Has Plummeted With The Onset Of Global Cooling
By Kenneth Richard on 14. July 2022
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The Western North Pacific has continued cooling over the last millennium, with no reversal in trends after the Little Ice Age.
Earlier this year we highlighted a study showing corals thrive in multiple-degrees-warmer-than-today waters and their growth is stunted in cooler environments.
Corals in the Western North Pacific near Japan were far more abundant than today during the warmer last interglacial (as the below chart in Fifer et al., 2022 shows).
Coral presence has rapidly declined in tandem with global cooling over the last 1,000 years. When this region was yet 2°C warmer 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, corals were still “prolific” here.
https://notrickszone.com/2022/07/14/new-study-indicates-coral-presence-around-japan-has-plummeted-with-the-onset-of-global-cooling/
