Great Barrier Reef suffered worst bleaching on record in 2016, report finds

By Hywel GriffithBBC News, Sydney

 

SYDNEY: -- Higher water temperatures in 2016 caused the worst destruction of corals ever recorded on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a study has found.

 

Some 67% of corals died in the reef's worst-hit northern section, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies report said. The situation was better in the central section, where 6% perished, while the southern reef is in good health.

 

But scientists warn recovery could be difficult if climate change continues. Coral bleaching happens when water temperatures rise for a sustained period of time.

 

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38127320

 

-- © Copyright BBC 2016-11-29

 

bullshit.....its the natural cycle of the reef. come to Cairns, there are no problems here with the reef.

 

19 minutes ago, wombat said:

bullshit.....its the natural cycle of the reef. come to Cairns, there are no problems here with the reef.

 

Please don't hold back. Say how you really feel.

Never ending "Climate Change" BS.  Never ending $$$$$--$$$$$--$$$$$--$$$$$--$$$$$--$$$$$--$$$$$--MoneyTrain

53 minutes ago, wombat said:

bullshit.....its the natural cycle of the reef. come to Cairns, there are no problems here with the reef.

 

i stayed in cairns several years back. did some dives and was very disappointed. dive companies said you need to travel a long way out to see anything as the inner reef was all dead. wished i had the cash to go out and see the reef under the liveaboard boats.

58 minutes ago, wombat said:

bullshit.....its the natural cycle of the reef. come to Cairns, there are no problems here with the reef.

 

No, it is not. The reef is badly affected by coral bleaching and by (other) human activity.

Well let's start by stopping all shipping to, from, and around Australia.

2 hours ago, stevenl said:

No, it is not. The reef is badly affected by coral bleaching and by (other) human activity.

 

Unfortunately for you coral reefs are made of dead coral going back as far as they existed.

 
Unfortunately for you coral reefs are made of dead coral going back as far as they existed.

Partly, yes.
But your post does not make sense, why is that unfortunate for me and what is the connection to dying reefs due to bleaching and other human activity?

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The Chicxulub meteor impacted 66 million years ago and Gaia is doing just fine with the exception of the ninnies incessantly worrying about cow farts in feed lots.  The reefs will bounce back just fine.  If not, they'll form somewhere else. 

Throw on the Carbon tax, That will cure everything.

Please listen to Al Gore, David Suzuki, and Leo  they  are

the Climate  Change  heroes. Oh  I am just being sarcastic!

Geezer

19 hours ago, wombat said:

bullshit.....its the natural cycle of the reef. come to Cairns, there are no problems here with the reef.

 

Wombatshitcrazy...you're denial of facts doesn't make them any less true. And must've missed where your marine science expertise comes from? Some easyto understand  evidence...

http://www.globalissues.org/article/173/coral-reefs

The Great Barrier Reef is the southern hemisphere equivalent of the polar bear.

 

Anytime the activists think that people are not paying enough attention to them, another 'crisis' is created, another 'tipping point', another 'death spiral' and all are dutifully lapped up by the compliant media.

 

They're whistling, but the dog's out of range -- nobody's interested in their incessant caterwauling any more.

15 hours ago, connda said:

The Chicxulub meteor impacted 66 million years ago and Gaia is doing just fine with the exception of the ninnies incessantly worrying about cow farts in feed lots.  The reefs will bounce back just fine.  If not, they'll form somewhere else. 

Maybe you could have chosen a worse example to support your assertion but this one is pretty awful.   "Further analysis of the coral extinctions shows that approximately 98% of colonial species, ones that inhabit warm, shallow tropical waters, became extinct."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous–Paleogene_extinction_event

 

 

This needs to be shifted to the scientific thought forum.

 

Why are so many people angry and aggressive in their denial of climate change?

 

Someone posted above, that there are many dollars involved (a climate change "money train"). There aren't.

 

This isn't about money or power or anyone trying to pull the wool over your eyes.

 

This is about the survival of our world as we know and love it.

 

There is no doubt - none! - that there has been an unprecedented rise in the temperature of the Earth in the last 120 years.

 

Here's a cool diagram of the Earth's temperature timeline since the last ice age:

 

https://xkcd.com/1732/

 

The recent temperature rise is clearly not part of a natural cycle.

 

Now, if you can accept that timeline as fact, it starts to make sense that we might be suffering coral bleaching due to warming of the seas, and that maybe we're at risk of sea levels rising and worldwide coastal flooding as polar ice inevitably melts.

 

The thing is, nobody stands to make money from climate change, there are just a majority of sincere scientists in the world who are observing different effects that point to the same thing - a man-made change in the climate of our world which may lead to catastrophic effects if it's not addressed.

 

If they are wrong, hooray, nobody dies! However, if they're correct we are heading for some serious problems and it will be too late to shout "bullshit" when London and New York become uninhabitable because they are under several metres of water.

 

 

9 minutes ago, Tapster said:

Someone posted above, that there are many dollars involved (a climate change "money train"). There aren't.

 

This is also where I get confused - the companies who really win through the suppression of concern about climate change are the multi-billion dollar fossil fuel companies, who, for decades, have been funding and promoting bad science to disprove or downplay the effects of increasing CO2 levels, lead in the air etc. When the CC deniers start harping on about this supposed money train, they seem to be ignoring the fact that they are simply working for free for Exxon and Shell.

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removed reference to global warming to make less contentious

 Absolutely, the only money train is the one which continues as long as climate change is denied.

 

Good point!

14 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

 

This is also where I get confused - the companies who really win through the suppression of concern about climate change are the multi-billion dollar fossil fuel companies, who, for decades, have been funding and promoting bad science to disprove or downplay the effects of increasing CO2 levels, lead in the air etc. When the CC deniers start harping on about this supposed money train, they seem to be ignoring the fact that they are simply working for free for Exxon and Shell.

The fossil fuel companies took their cue from the tobacco companies. By 1953 tobacco companies had the research to show that smoking was carcinogenic. But they set up all kinds of fake institutes populated by low life physicians to deny any connection. And it wasn't until 1994 that any successful judgements were brought against the tobacco companies.  Up through 1998 what is now Exxon Mobil was also doing research on anthropogenic global warming and their research supported it.  Then they took a cue from the tobacco industry, suppressed their research and started sponsoring false science sites. Sponsoring false  science pays off big time for the fossil fuel industry.