Some of the oldest reefs on Earth predate the dinosaurs. They’ve endured for hundreds of millions of years, through climates so hot the poles were bare of ice for eons. They flourished during the Jurassic, when CO₂ levels were more than four times what we inhale today—an era when life itself exploded in forms we’ve never seen before or since. Corals didn’t just survive the planet’s warmest ages; they thrived in them.
So the claim that higher CO₂ and warmer seas spell certain death for reefs isn’t just wrong—it’s farcical. No one with even a fragment of scientific integrity should treat it as anything other than propaganda in drag. What we need isn’t grand heroics but a return to the most basic form of decency: the willingness to call a lie a lie.Because this isn’t a clever deception or some intricate sleight of hand. It’s cruder than that. We’re being clubbed with the intellectual equivalent of a two-by-four with a rusty nail sticking out.