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Coral Proxy Records

Sea surface temperature and salinity histories read from the geochemistry of banded coral skeletons, typically at monthly resolution over decades to millennia.

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Thirteen Galápagos corals put recent El Niños about 40% above their preindustrial strength

Coral chemistry from the eastern tropical Pacific has finally put a number on how much warming has strengthened El Niño. The natural-forcing alternative fails the test the same authors ran.

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Builder 47%
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Operator 41%
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Investor 12%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+22
Incentives58
Confidence74