This sentence cites a report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a group created by a British politician and investment banker who in 2017 said that global temperatures had "slightly declined" over the past ten years.

Interesting, the coral reef report has since been taken off their website.

"Thermal bleaching tied to ENSO variability, have shaped reef assemblages over millennia by periodically resetting community structure while creating niches for recolonization."

In a section titled "Policy and Alarmism Critiques," it states that "global assessments indicate no consistent long-term decline in reef ecosystems, with fluctuations attributed to natural variability rather than irreversible anthropogenic forcing."

I wrote about it here: nautil.us/this-forest-...

Most Sierra Nevada forests are adapted to low-intensity fire every 10ish years. Frequent burns keep the understory sparse and starve wildfires of the fuel they need to ignite large trees.

To protect forests from catastrophic wildfires, we need more prescribed burns—a lot more.

Don't worry, the article says it is "supported by editorial technologies."

The point I made is that forests no longer have 300 or 400 years to recover now that climate change is increasing the frequency of wildfires.

Intense fires do 'kill' trees and a forest with nearly 100% tree mortality has been 'eviscerated,' even if the fire that did it is perfectly natural. Effective science communication requires down-to-earth, accurate language, not technical jargon like 'tree mortality.'

Me too. The Yellowstone forests that historically burned very infrequently are the most vulnerable to increasing fire frequency caused by climate change. These forests have few adaptations to fire and take centuries to regenerate. The same could be true for boreal forests.

"...In areas that burned in both fires, one-sixth as many new trees sprouted after the 2016 fire when compared to the 1988 fire, subsequent field research led by Turner revealed....Repeated fires could cause a gradual collapse in forests across the GYE, they added."

Actually, that is not entirely true. From the story: "But in a changing climate, all three scientists agree that the interval of time between fires is decreasing...the 2016 Maple Fire reburned forests previously scorched in 1988...(continued in the thread)