Coral reefs a gauge of climate change

Thank goodness for Anthony Watts’ common sense approach to climate change.

After all, those egghead climatologists all over the world can’t even agree on what year their so-called tipping point is coming. And they are wrong on the glaciers. The glaciers are melting much faster than they predicted. And how are they measuring the oceans’ temperatures. That’s a lot of water. Probably put their thermometers in the wrong places.

But a hundred years or so of water temperatures in the Bay Area isn’t really a good standard to go by when looking at the whole world over the centuries. A better gauge would be the coral reefs. They’ve survived for 485,000 years through all the warmings and coolings, and only now are they starting to die. What do you think is causing that? Should we worry, or just keep burning those fossil fuels like here’s no tomorrow? — Martha Claudio, Chico