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The Guardian claims ocean warming is causing a staggering collapse in marine life, but the study it cites actually shows the opposite.
When a year is warmer, fish biomass is found to increase by as much as 24%. When years turn colder, biomass falls by around 15%.
That is the observed data.
To preserve the climate narrative, however, the authors then abandon real year-to-year results and switch to a modeled decadal trend.
The model assigns warming a negative effect and reports a decline. That decline is not observed, it is modeled.
The authors go on to admit they cannot separate temperature effects from overfishing, which is the primary, well-known driver of fish declines worldwide.
Since fishing pressure is not included, the model loads losses onto temperature by default. Even though, as per the study's own data, warmer years mean more fish.
The collapse exists only in the model.