08/25/2025 / By Cassie B.
If you’ve ever wondered why climate alarmists keep screaming about coral reefs dying from “global warming,” a bombshell new study just dropped that turns their entire narrative upside down. It turns out that coral reefs didn’t just survive in warmer oceans; they flourished. And not just a little. We’re talking growth rates six times faster than today in seas that were 1–2 C warmer and one to two meters higher than current levels.
So why are we still being fed the doomsday propaganda? Let’s break it down.
A team of international researchers, led by Dr. Michael Hynes of Naturalis Biodiversity Center, just published findings that should make every climate fearmonger squirm. They analyzed 16 coral reef cores from Indonesia’s Spermonde Archipelago and found that between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, during the Holocene Climatic Optimum, reefs were growing at 6 millimeters per year. Today? A pathetic 1 millimeter per year.
Meanwhile, over at Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, another study revealed that when sea temperatures were 1–2 C warmer and sea levels one meter higher, coral growth hit 15 millimeters per year — the fastest in 8,500 years. During cooler periods like the Little Ice Age, in contrast, growth plummeted.
So why are modern reefs struggling? The researchers point to local pollution, overfishing and destructive tourism — not some imaginary climate apocalypse. Funny how the same people pushing “net zero” policies never mention sewage dumping, agricultural runoff, or dynamite fishing as the real killers.
This isn’t just about coral. It’s about the same old playbook: demonize carbon dioxide, ignore historical evidence and push for centralized control over energy, food and human life.
We’ve been told for decades that CO2 is poisoning the planet, yet coral reefs, which rely on CO2 for photosynthesis via their symbiotic algae, were thriving when levels were higher. Just like plants grow faster in CO2-rich greenhouses, reefs expanded when conditions were warmer and seas were higher.
But the climate industrial complex can’t afford for you to know that. If people realized CO2 is plant food, not pollution, their entire carbon credit scam collapses. If reefs grew faster in warmer waters, then the “ocean acidification” myth — another favorite scare tactic — falls apart too.
Let’s be clear: healthy reefs matter. They’re vital for marine life, coastal protection, and fisheries. But the solution isn’t shutting down economies in the name of “saving the planet.” It’s cleaning up local pollution, ending destructive fishing, and letting nature adapt, just like it always has.
Instead, the World Economic Forum, the UN and their billionaire backers want you to believe that human activity is destroying the planet, so they can justify carbon taxes, digital IDs and meat bans. They’ve turned environmentalism into a religion, where dissent is heresy and real science is censored.
The Spermonde Archipelago reefs didn’t just survive the Holocene Climatic Optimum; they dominated it. The Great Barrier Reef hit record growth in warmer seas. And yet, today, we’re told that a 1.5 C rise will wipe them out.
This is junk science at its finest. The same people who ignore historical data are the ones demanding you give up your car, your steak, and your freedom.
Here’s the reality: Earth’s climate has always changed. Sea levels have risen and fallen for millions of years. Coral reefs adapt and thrive when given the chance. The only thing that’s new is the political exploitation of environmental fears to push totalitarian control.
The next time some climate activist or politician starts hyperventilating about coral bleaching, ask them:
The answers won’t come, because this was never about saving reefs. It’s about power, money, and control.
Nature doesn’t need globalist rescue plans. It needs humanity to get out of the way. And that starts with rejecting the climate hoax and focusing on real solutions — not fake crises.
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