Climate alarmists have continually claimed that the Great Barrier Reef is dying because of Climate Change. Unfortunately for them, record coral cover and growth over the last two years is shooting a hole in that narrative.
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The Australian Institute of Marine Science annual report has found that the Great Barrier Reef central section and northern section now have record coral cover. A natural event, a crown-of-thorns starfish outbreak, prevented the southern section reaching record coral cover too. For millennia the reef has witnessed natural events causing coral bleaching. Bleaching results when periods of high solar activity coincide with low tides, when the water cover is insufficient to protect the coral polyps and they die, meaning the reef bleaches. And then it recovers just as quickly, every time. Tropical cyclones bleach the reef and floods deliver fresh water plumes onto the reef, killing saltwater coral polyps. Once the plume dissipates, marine life consumes the nutrients in the floodwaters and the sediment turns into sand. The reef and the coastal environment are renewed.
Recently, in June 2008, record cold temperatures in Queensland caused coral bleaching. For millennia, natural solar, lunar and rain cycles have caused bleaching. What is new is the late 20th century environmental movement hijacking the perfectly normal climate cycle for their own political benefit. If your party’s real objective is to control every aspect of life on the reef and along the coast, then be honest and have that debate. The only argument the climate fraudsters can advance in favour of onerous reductions in farm output is ‘save the reef’. Well, the reef does not need saving and never has. The public has been deceived.
The left are seeking to shut down agriculture and transfer food production to near urban, intensive-food-production facilities manufacturing food-like substances. Who will own these facilities? Predatory billionaires, the same predatory billionaires who own and drive the environmental movement for their own benefit—not nature: predatory billionaires who own and drive the environmental movement. We have one flag, we are one community, we are one nation and we will continue to stand up for our farmers’ rights to feed and clothe the world.
Totalitarianism comes from many directions. The green movement is just one angle of the totalitarian agendy. Why don’t they come out and tell us directly and honestly, that they want 2 control everyone and everything. In fact, the bottom line of their agenda is to massively reduce the world’s population, and mass starvation is the perfect way to accomplish it. Of course the results will consume the Greens own followers. By the time the deceived wake up it’ll be too late..
Science is right.
Let’s face it you rely on science every day.
You don’t believe your own myths.
I have never believed the climate dommsayers . The academic forced from his post had been vindicated. Keep up the good work Malcolm
Read during the past week and with a photo taken from the air, that its 36% increase in regrowth.
ALL hte kerfuffle of dying off? NATURE KNOWS what its doing. Its Big Corporations that need to do the right thing.
Well said Malcolm. Despite best efforts by the climate alarmists to demonize CO2 & claim it to be the primary driver of coral bleaching, in common with the same hand waving catastrophist claims regarding other natural events like floods, bush fires & droughts, coral bleaching is an integral feature of our unique Australian environment & doubtless will continue to be so into eternity.
Good to hear that the government can never say it wasn’t told when they eventually wake up to the reality – that CO2 does not cause warming, but does support heightened photosynthesis above and below sea level
Dear Malcolm I support you 100 % Just keep up this good job .
Kind Regards
John Kodric
Wikipedia reports differently.