Good reading material: The Coral Bleaching Debate
Oceans are fundamental ecosystem stabilizer, and the strong bleaching events seem to have a negative impact on the rest of the ecosystem. It's good to know this has a lot more to do with things that seem less apocalyptic, but it doesn't change the reality that we need the reefs to not be bleaching to be in a good place. However, it doesn't appear to be any more bleaching than average. The environutz wont admit that bleaching is a natural part of a reef's process, and reefs are way stronger and more adaptable than we give it credit for, and bleaching is not really synonymous with destruction of the environment, though warm temperatures do seem to be synonymous with strong reef growth.
Oceans are fundamental ecosystem stabilizer, and the strong bleaching events seem to have a negative impact on the rest of the ecosystem. It's good to know this has a lot more to do with things that seem less apocalyptic, but it doesn't change the reality that we need the reefs to not be bleaching to be in a good place. However, it doesn't appear to be any more bleaching than average. The environutz wont admit that bleaching is a natural part of a reef's process, and reefs are way stronger and more adaptable than we give it credit for, and bleaching is not really synonymous with destruction of the environment, though warm temperatures do seem to be synonymous with strong reef growth.