Truths Don't Care Who Finds Them Inconvenient

And now for some good news about climate change, specifically, that one of its supposedly worst effects has abated after 2021:

Doesn't fit the narrative, but

2024 record coral cover for Great Barrier Reef

Based on official data for all 11 sectors of GBR,

Last three years, 2022-2024, have been unprecedented

Data: https://t.co/MQ0qkITsby pic.twitter.com/fJN15BjHMk

— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) July 2, 2024

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration states why global warming harms coral reefs:

Climate change is the greatest global threat to coral reef ecosystems. Scientific evidence now clearly indicates that the Earth's atmosphere and ocean are warming, and that these changes are primarily due to greenhouse gases derived from human activities.

As temperatures rise, mass coral bleaching events and infectious disease outbreaks are becoming more frequent. Additionally, carbon dioxide absorbed into the ocean from the atmosphere has already begun to reduce calcification rates in reef-building and reef-associated organisms by altering seawater chemistry through decreases in pH. This process is called ocean acidification.

Although your humble blogger is no scientist, he can tell from the language that the NOAA regards what should be a hypothesis ("Climate change = ocean change") as proven.

A little humility from this most recent data, compiled from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, is in order from American scientists, who should be trying to explain why there's a conflict between the Australian data and the dominant climate-change narrative. My expectations for the NOAA to do so are nil, based on the gaslighting behavior of other agencies in the American government.

Note--quotes from two 20th-century dead white males:

Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

John Maynard Keynes: “When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?”