With the claimed warming over the twentieth century to today is so small most people and wildlife are unable to detect it. You’ll also need to learn to tan hides and make your own shoes; or walk everywhere barefoot. I assume heat, but not that of water ever so slightly warmer but sunbaked heat. It’s the first test of its kind and it could save the dying reef. How is it that we find fossils of them from that time? Just the same as the thousands of Pacific islands disappearing.”. But now we have development, canals, sand pumps and every other modern convenience to remove the temporary nature of the Gold Coast sand and you focus on global warming? Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. we are burning a 100 million barrels of oil a day, this produces the equivalent of 250 million barrels of greenhouse gases in liquid form so times that by 500 plus times…. Humans removed the apex predator, Great Triton Conch, for its pretty shells and COT got out of control, unsurprisingly. Fanatastic nature and the people here don’t mind it is a bit warmer and drier than usual, believe me. Nutrient runoff. AtB. The entire Great Barrier Reef WILL die, though, as it always does during the next glacial period when sea levels drop and the reef is baking in the tropical sun tens of meters above sea level. Keeping in mind, that those allegedly renewable energy sources kill bats and birds by the multitudes and have reversed populations recovery of large raptors and carrion birds. **What a load of shit. I respect your opinion and you are free to voice it. History says that sort of life is brutish, hard and short. Pushback finally happened when the Tourist Industry got clobbered because of all the bad news about the reefs. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. Isn’t it amazing that creatures who have survived many millions of years, easily survive weather events on the GBR. GRAHAM LLOYDThe Great Barrier Reef is not dead, is not dying and is not even on life support, federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley has declared after her first official visit to the World Heritage-listed site. Is run off any different now to when the river catchments were burned by lightning strike, firestick or accident release of flame over the last 60,000 years? 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Might even have a representative of the Media ask them a question about it. What a load of shit. And Professor Peter Ridd, he has only been studying for the reef for 35 years. Sussan Ley is prepared to actually go on site and examine the evidence for herself. It is home to over a thousand different types of marine life: 1400 types of hard coral, one third of the world’s soft coral, 1,625 species of fish, over 3000 species of molluscs, 630 types of starfish/sea urchins, 14 species of sea snakes, 215 types of birds, 133 different types of sharks and rays, 30 species of whales and dolphins, six out of seven species of marine turtles, and many species still undiscovered. Government funding for new fossil fuel mining must come to a halt, the Reef 2050 Plan needs to be rewritten, and the country should adopt a climate change policy that would reduce the emission levels by 40-60% followed by 60-80%. Maybe she actually did pull her head out of the sand. They need to be put to real work, mining coal, perhaps? By the way Scott child, Dr. Peter Ridd has been measuring the GBR for decades and they dumped him because the research he criticized was false and based upon not visiting the reef. Oh for Pete’s sake! Oh, It is an orchardist that tends a orchard. It has to be irritating that someone insists on looking at the Great Barrier Reef and conflating it with the model. This would explain why there are reefs reaching the surface [bommies] surrounded by deep water. Loss or accumulation of sand on a beach is only affected very slightly by the small amount of sea level rise over the last 30 years, but mostly a factor of changes in currents, local structures, sea walls, storms, dams, etc. ** I got sidetracked at the time modelling the economy with punch cards and a DEC10 so I’m not up with all the finer nuances of deep science. Looks great! [according to AIMS]. the Great Barrier Reef is being bleached and is dying at a rapid pace. Such comments should never be deleted, but underlined and the person making them attached to those comments forevermore. Speaking of Feynman, I recall when Freeman Dyson came out against AGW. Coral bleaching can occur when the typical summer temperature of local waters increases an exceed maxima by 1°C. With an alleged warming anomaly that is impossible to calculate reliably or accurately. https://nsw.liberal.org.au/SussanLey, Please go back to the previous scenario where the reef is dying, and only a government carbon tax can save it. I get the feeling wattsupwiththat doesn’t seem to get the glaring problem of going from fossil carbon storage to much less stable carbon containment media. 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