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yes, but it usually changes over the course of thousands of years, not tens of years. In the past, coral migrated north and south to stay in the optimal tempera
by hannasanarion 7y ago
yes, but it usually changes over the course of thousands of years, not tens of years. In the past, coral migrated north and south to stay in the optimal temperature. There's not enough time for that at the scale of anthropogenic climate change.
- masklinn 7y ago> yes, but it usually changes over the course of thousands of years The scale we're observing right now is the stuff of millions of years of change, or massive extinction events.
- hannasanarion 7y agoYeah, exactly. If the change happens as fast as it is happening, you get a mass extinction. If the change happens over thousands of years, biomes have time to migrate. Using the xkcd timeline as a guide, the temperature change in the last 120 years is about the size of the temperature change between 11,000 and 9,000 BC, which was only mildly disruptive to global ecology.
- garmaine 7y agoSo move the coral.
- pvaldes 7y agoIs a possibility