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Does anyone know if the coral reefs will migrate to cooler waters? Maybe that’s not feasible in a timely fashion given current locations and continental shelfs
by kansface 3y ago
Does anyone know if the coral reefs will migrate to cooler waters? Maybe that’s not feasible in a timely fashion given current locations and continental shelfs? Seems like humans could help them out in that case.
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoThey already are.
- crote 3y agoCoral reefs grow at about 3 millimeters a year. Many reefs are many thousands of years old. New reefs will probably grow in cooler waters, but it will not happen nearly fast enough. The entire ecosystem around the reefs will basically collapse before migration becomes even remotely viable.
- jakear 3y agoNew ecosystems will form, eventually. Humans love to think their time scales are the only ones that matter.
- lawlessone 3y ago>Humans love to think their time scales are the only ones that matter. They matter to humans.
- lamontcg 3y agoOcean acidity will go up worldwide though
- lm28469 3y agoYou're missing the forest for the trees The coral reef thing was more of a marketing campaign, it's beautiful, it dies quickly, you can see it almost live, but all in all it doesn't matter much Ocean acidification, massive change in wind and ocean currents , the permafrost melting, loss of albedo in the poles, &c. These are all much bigger problems we can't deal with at all, it'll start self reinforcing loops we can't even pretend to understand yet