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> I'm hoping for some facts.
Facts have been presented.
Further hard evidence is as close as Cabo San Lucas, where the water of the Cabo Pulmo reef are suffering much higher acidity, which is easy to measure with nothing more than pH test strips.
The higher acidity is due to oceans absorbing roughly 1/4 of all the carbon dioxide emitted by man's activities.
When dissolved CO2 levels rise in water, the water turns acidic. "Ocean acidification" is a threat to all reefs, as they are made of the dead shells of coral polyps.
The shells of polyps are made of calcium carbonate. As oceans absorb more carbon dioxide, and become more acidic, the level of available carbonate diminishes in the water. These carbonates are the basic "structural building material for coral polyps, shellfish, and pteropods need to make shells and body structures. They cannot live without the shells, without the carbonate. The tiny shell-wearing, bottom feeding creatures like pteropods are the very bottom of the food chain for many species. Without them, you don't even have salmon any more.
All this is a long way away from bees, but just as bees are the sentinel species for pesticide misuse and terrestrial pollution, ocean species the sentinel species for the anthropocentric climate change, as the Earth is far more "ocean" than "land".
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