Is climate change already irreversible?

[NotFishyFishGuy]

We get our fish and corals wild caught or captive bred. Most fish are wild caught nowadays but captive breeding is improving. We get corals from either fragging them or sometimes take them from the ocean. I recently watched this video. It is about how the Great Barrier Reef is already dying and climate change will only make it worse. If the reef were to die, then we can assume that most other reefs are going to follow it. Soon will there be no more corals in the wild? I feel that as a reefing forum, we can try to help, maybe by spreading the news about this or something. Reefs are important to the oceans ecosystem, if they start disappearing they may take some fish with them. By 2050 some predictions say that the reefs will all be on very very bad shape or be dead. We need to try to stop climate change before we end up with the last reefs on our homes.

 

[WVNed]

Our planet has a long a rich history. It and what is upon it have changed many times and are going to continue to change. It changed before humans existed and will continue to after we are gone.

You can never go back.

I was watching a history show on neolithic people living in the area that is now the English channel.
The temperature changed 7 degrees in 15 years. Sea levels changed. Britain became islands.
I wonder what they decided to do to try to stop it sitting around their fires. Perhaps they where sad the mammoths where going away and wondering how to save them.

It is my understanding that we have landfilled enough biodegradable stuff that will decompose to methane which is a strong greenhouse gas unlike co2 that what is coming is inevitable.

 

[NotFishyFishGuy]

Our planet has a long a rich history. It and what is upon it have changed many times and are going to continue to change. It changed before humans existed and will continue to after we are gone.

You can never go back.

I was watching a history show on neolithic people living in the area that is now the English channel.
The temperature changed 7 degrees in 15 years. Sea levels changed. Britain became islands.
I wonder what they decided to do to try to stop it sitting around their fires. Perhaps they where sad the mammoths where going away and wondering how to save them.

It is my understanding that we have landfilled enough biodegradable stuff that will decompose to methane which is a strong greenhouse gas unlike co2 that what is coming is inevitable.

so goodbye to our reefs in the wild?

 

[siggy]

I hear ya, but lets talk rainforests, sulfur emissions, and people paying astronomical amounts of money per frag that bolster the coral trade.
Dont get me started on Countries that dump pollutants into the air and waters.
In the US it is cheaper to Pay the fines than to build new facilities to clean up their emissions. I work in just such a factory
and we are expanding operations and intend on keeping the old system intact. Upgrades to facility and automation are being subsidized by the taxpayers. BTW the project will top 1B. It will get worse before it gets better.

 

[AcanthurusRex]

Technically the effects of unplanned terraforming could be mitigated. However...
Very few people are science literate. Nothing will be done.
Corals will survive, the reefs will come back. For example, the Great Barrier reef did not exist 20 centuries ago.
Unfortunately, this thread doesn't really belong in the Reef Discussion forum. This is more of a lounge topic since its really a political/religious discussion.

 

[NotFishyFishGuy]

Technically the effects of unplanned terraforming could be mitigated. However...
Very few people are science literate. Nothing will be done.
Corals will survive, the reefs will come back. For example, the Great Barrier reef did not exist 20 centuries ago.
Unfortunately, this thread doesn't really belong in the Reef Discussion forum. This is more of a lounge topic since its really a political/religious discussion.

True but too late to move it lol