Great Barrier Reef: Two-thirds damaged in 'unprecedented' bleaching

[Micawber]

Thanks Dump. Thanks for the pro climate destruction agenda

So much for my scuba trips. Fuck you Dump!

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39524196

 

[cancel2 2022]

Thanks Dump. Thanks for the pro climate destruction agenda

So much for my scuba trips. Fuck you Dump!

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39524196

http://www.snopes.com/scientists-pronounce-great-barrier-reef-dead/

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The Great Barrier Reef is under attack from a range of enemies including increased severe storms, pollutant discharge from the land, coastal development, and damage from fishing. Yet here we go again with a series of bullshit articles from the usual suspects, the BBC, Guardian and NYT attempting to pin the blame on climate change.

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[USFREEDOM911]

Thanks Dump. Thanks for the pro climate destruction agenda

So much for my scuba trips. Fuck you Dump!

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39524196

 

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It is puzzling why the recent 2017 publication in Nature, Global Warming And Recurrent Mass Bleaching Of Corals by Hughes et al. ignored the most critical factor affecting the 2016 severe bleaching along the northern Great Barrier Reef – the regional fall in sea level amplified by El Niño. Instead Hughes 2017 suggested the extensive bleaching was due to increased water temperatures induced by CO2 warming.

In contrast in Coral Mortality Induced by the 2015–2016 El-Niño in Indonesia: The Effect Of Rapid Sea Level Fall by Ampou 2017, Indonesian biologists had reported that a drop in sea level had bleached the upper 15 cm of the reefs before temperatures had reached NOAA’ Coral Reef Watch’s bleaching thresholds. As discussed by Ampou 2017, the drop in sea level had likely been experienced throughout much of the Coral Triangle including the northern Great Barrier Reef (GBR), and then accelerated during the El Niño. They speculated sea level fall also contributed to the bleaching during the 1998 El Niño. Consistent with the effects of sea level fall, other researchers reported bleaching in the GBR was greatest near the surface then declined rapidly with depth. Indeed if falling sea level was the main diver in 2016’s reef mortalities, and this can be tested, then most catastrophic assertions made by Hughes 2017 would be invalid.

Read more: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/04...-factor-in-2016-great-barrier-reef-bleaching/

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[moon]

The Great Barrier Reef is under attack from a range of enemies including increased severe storms, pollutant discharge from the land, coastal development, and damage from fishing. Yet here we go again with a series of bullshit articles from the usual suspects, the BBC, Guardian and NYT attempting to pin the blame on climate change.

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After Trump- I can't think of a better candidate for a salt-water croc's lunch. Swim much, maggot ?

 

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After Trump- I can't think of a better candidate for a salt-water croc's lunch. Swim much, maggot ?

I swim a lot actually, thank for asking. For your demise I'd choose a Komodo Dragon bite. That way you'd die in exquisite agony from fatal bacteria after a couple of days.

As regards to maggots, that would of course make you a fruit, rotten to the core.

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[moon]

Maggot's drowning. Throw him a brick.

 

[cawacko]

I went there in 2002. Was an awesome trip. I'll send you pictures of what you're missing .

 

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Don't see any mention of the Crown of Thorns starfish which has had a profound effect on coral reefs.

"Marine biologists may have devised a new way to protect the Great Barrier Reef after decoding the pheromones of the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish.

Researchers say the discovery can be used to create pheromone lures that attract the marine pest in large numbers and make them easier to remove.

Crown-of-thorns starfish make coral more susceptible to bleaching, weather damage and the effects of climate change, and have been blamed for half of all coral decline over the past 30 years, according to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

“These starfish feast on the coral and leave it bleached white and vulnerable to destruction in heavy storms,” says report author Professor Bernard Degnan. “But now we've found the genes they use to communicate, we can begin fabricating environmentally safe baits that trick them into gathering in one place.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...lling-crown-of-thorns-starfish-to-their-death

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...lling-crown-of-thorns-starfish-to-their-death

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[Buckly J. Ewer]

Tom shilling for Oil ... Again ...
Poor Farang Tom

 

[domer76]

http://www.snopes.com/scientists-pronounce-great-barrier-reef-dead/

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You just confirmed his post. Good job!

"While the threats to the Great Barrier Reef are well documented and not controversial amongst the scientific community, no scientist has actually proclaimed the reef (which, in reality, is a massive sprawling collection of organisms) to be “officially dead”."

 

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You just confirmed his post. Good job!

"While the threats to the Great Barrier Reef are well documented and not controversial amongst the scientific community, no scientist has actually proclaimed the reef (which, in reality, is a massive sprawling collection of organisms) to be “officially dead”."

Why are you such a bullshitting cockwomble?

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[domer76]

Why are you such a bullshitting cockwomble?

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I know, I know. You should be embarrassed posting a totally irrelevant citation.

The Barrier Reef may not be dead, but your brain cells are.

 

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I know, I know. You should be embarrassed posting a totally irrelevant citation.

The Barrier Reef may not be dead, but your brain cells are.

I like poking sticks into cages, consider yours rattled.

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[domer76]

I like poking sticks into cages, consider yours rattled.

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You threw the insult, Clyde. Obviously, I got under your skin (again) by demonstrating the irrelevance of your response to the OP.

This isn't even a challenge any more.

 

[tsuke]

Thanks Dump. Thanks for the pro climate destruction agenda

So much for my scuba trips. Fuck you Dump!

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39524196

good spend the money in the US instead.

 

[tsuke]

Don't see any mention of the Crown of Thorns starfish which has had a profound effect on coral reefs.

"Marine biologists may have devised a new way to protect the Great Barrier Reef after decoding the pheromones of the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish.

Researchers say the discovery can be used to create pheromone lures that attract the marine pest in large numbers and make them easier to remove.

Crown-of-thorns starfish make coral more susceptible to bleaching, weather damage and the effects of climate change, and have been blamed for half of all coral decline over the past 30 years, according to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

“These starfish feast on the coral and leave it bleached white and vulnerable to destruction in heavy storms,” says report author Professor Bernard Degnan. “But now we've found the genes they use to communicate, we can begin fabricating environmentally safe baits that trick them into gathering in one place.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...lling-crown-of-thorns-starfish-to-their-death

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so if we hunt these crown of thorns fellows to extinction the reef will be protected?

 

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so if we hunt these crown of thorns fellows to extinction the reef will be protected?

Well as the article says, it is responsible for 50% of the damage to the coral.

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[tsuke]

Well as the article says, it is responsible for 50% of the damage to the coral.

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i guess we need to do some exterminating then