/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8757524
>military under Obama blows up car full of terrorists, accidentally kills some people in the next car over
>military under Trump shoots a bunch of kids in botched raid, accomplishes nothing whatsoever
>LOL OBAMA SUCKS TRUMP IS WAY BETTER GUYS

>>8619314
so are you saying that big chunks of the GBR aren't actually dying as the result of coral bleaching? This is nothing to do with ocean acidification; it's literally JUST TEMPERATURE RISE OF UNDER A DEGREE. that alone is sufficient to kill certain kinds of corals.
so basically, you asked for an example of "minor" temperature rise causing serious ecological damage. and when an example was provided, you tried to deflect to ocean acidification because even in the face of all that evidence YOU SIMPLY COULD NOT BELIEVE that a small rise in temperature could do all that.
how little indeed you know, how little you are capable of learning.

unfortunately for you, the conspiracy theorizing about ocean acidification also has some serious problems.
>When the graph was reconstructed with all of the data it showed a rising pH, you can see that here.
Feely's graph uses atmospheric measurements from ONE SITE and oceanic measurements from ONE NEARBY SITE, keeping everything constant.
What "all of the data" did Wallace add in? He added in ocean pH measurements from all over the globe, which varied year-to-year in geographic composition (measurements were taken from all sorts of different locations in different years) and time of year (some years were dominated by measurements taken in summer, some were more even). there was no attempt to control or adjust for those confounding effects, rendering Wallace's take practically meaningless.
A time series for something like temperature or pH is only informative if you use the SAME LOCATIONS and measure at the SAME TIME every single time YEAR AFTER YEAR. If you're changing where and when you're measuring every year, you get gobbledygook.
>https://quantpalaeo.wordpress.com/2014/12/26/not-phraud-but-phoolishness/

>>8599192