[SteveH]

won’t coral colonies just slowly resettle into adjacent but slightly colder waters?

[Macoozie]

“won’t coral colonies just slowly resettle into adjacent but slightly colder waters?”

Easy now!

Logic and reason have NO PLACE in scientific discussions!

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[WMarshal]

"won't coral colonies just slowly resettle into adjacent but slightly colder waters?"

Yes corals will. Most people are too stupid to realize that corals do you mass spawning with trillions of eggs that will grow wherever conditions are favorable.

Also existing, mature corals can swap out their symbiotic algae for other algae species that match the temperature ranges they find themselves in. When they send out hand flapping, doom porn new stories about coral bleaching it is just the coral booting out the old algae to make room for new symbiotic algae. It is a perfectly normal and natural process that sometimes ends with the death of the coral but, that is life.

[vpintheak]

Yep. And they’ve found places that were “bleached” that are returning to life too.
These people are idiots.