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		adrianN on Sept 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Another Blow for the Future of Corals You'd better call up the IPCC and tell them of your findings, because they believe that 99% of the coral will be dead in a 2° world with high confidence. Currently our emissions are on a path for much stronger warming that even that.

mythrwy on Sept 6, 2019 [–]

Appeal to authority isn't really an argument though.

I've laid the fact I know of out, you are free to believe what you want.

adrianN on Sept 6, 2019 | [–]

I'm not an expert on coral reef ecology, and probably neither are you. Believing the scientists who are is the natural choice.

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