Coral: The gift you don't want to give, or get

NOAA.gov ^ | December 2, 2019 | NOAA

[frogjerk]

Follow up article will be to give the gift of insect snacks for whatever holiday you celebrate (carefully omitting the biggest one)

[AAABEST]

This reads like it’s written by some neocommunist lackey at The LA Times... but it’s from our (Marxist/Maoist advocacy) government.

Clowns who want us to trust trust their clown AGW data.

[Tupelo]

After reading that, I am on the hunt for some coral jewelry for my wife, two daughters and the sorta kinda effeminate son-in-law.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I wonder what percentage of the world’s coral is “harvested for costume jewelry, souvenirs and home decor”. Can’t be that much.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Climate Communists never sleep.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

That's why it's best to leave corals and other marine life on the reef where they can be enjoyed by everyone.

Everyone who has the time and money to go diving on coral reefs, that is.

[DesertRhino]

I’m so old I remember when NOAA was very scientific and not run by the whims some millenial social media female.

[Organic Panic]

NTSA

I have been hearing the coral reefs are all going to die every year for the past 40 years. But THIS time they REALLY mean it.

[Salamander]

it looks like somebody cut her throat

[ConservativeMind]

“… daughters and the sorta kinda effeminate son-in-law.”

LOL! If it helps, the same sort of long-term boyfriend of my sister actually volunteered to me he is no longer a liberal, can't stand them, apologized for having voted that way, and is strongly conservative, now. He worked with too many like him and never saw good things from the politicians he had voted for.

The change can happen, but it takes many years. To be fair, my sister probably wore off on him.

[Jamestown1630]

There’s a lot of jewelry made from it, and I think places that sell seashell specimens have coral, too.

[cgbg]

Any article that includes the phrase “global climate change” shows the writer is brain dead or brainwashed or both.

[17th Miss Regt]

carefully omitting the biggest one

OMG! Thery omitted Festivus? How utterly gauche!

[RandallFlagg]

"CORAL!!!"

[Ann Archy]

Doesn’t coral keep GROWING?

[Jamestown1630]

Like everything else that lives, I guess it depends on what’s happening in the critter’s environment.

There appear to be a number of threats - not all attributed to ‘climate change’:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral#Threats

[hinckley buzzard]

Disinformation on a massive scale.

[alstewartfan]

You are making assumptions. There is nothing wrong with hanging a portrait of Admiral Levine in one’s bedroom.

[nicollo]

Coral: The gift you don't want to give, or get

Tell that to Captain Cook!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Yes, but how many tons of coral gets used for that out of how many tons of coral on Earth?