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Charles Sheppard, “Coral Reefs: Science and Survival” (Open Agenda, 2021)

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Is There Anything You Can Do About It?

Warming is affecting tropical oceans quite significantly, because the species that live there are already close to their thermal higher limit. It doesn't need much a degree or two to push them over itand then they fall over. Acidification will dissolve in colder water more easily than it does in warm water. So that is affecting the poles more so asidification in the poles is happening, probably faster than in the tropics. And the two is sort of a nutcracker effect. You have the warming impacts at the tropics, and the itification factors cold at the poles. The two are both spreading there their range. What should somebody listening to thisor watching this do if they're

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