When I was in the Keys last year, the reefs had not only “recovered” but were spawning.
We still have major areas of dead coral down here in the fab Fla. Keys. But, I’ll give you an example of how it all works.
During an excavation a salvor screwed up and dug a huge metal blade of sorts into the marl bottom near Hawk’s channel a few miles from the coral reef.
Several years later an examination of the same scrape of the coral revealed substantial coral growth.
When the libs cry the sky is falling in whatever venue they chose,usually the sky never falls.