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But the state's $6 billion Reef tourism industry has slammed the latest campaign as “distorting the truth” by “cherrypicking” the worst-affected shallow reef sites to portray a global mass coral bleaching event
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The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has warned against “ridiculously exaggerated” and “irresponsible” reports of the death of the Reef over an area “bigger than Italy”.
“Time and again, the Reef has shown itself to be a resilient system,” a spokeswoman said yesterday. “Not all bleached coral will die.’’
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Dive operators will this week launch their own independent survey with accredited marine biologists at sites off Cairns and Port Douglas north to Lizard Island.
Col McKenzie, of the Association of Marine Park Tourism Operators, said one cyclone could put an end to the whole bleaching event.
“These king tides which expose the coral, half a metre out of the water, to direct heat and sunlight are part of the natural cycle of the Earth.
“But to go to two shallow reef sites and show stark white staghorn coral, which is under stress but still alive, and say ‘look the whole Reef is dead’ is grossly distorting the truth.’
Trump and other climate change deniers, who never discuss clearly observed empirical impacts such as ocean acidification and ocean warming, now can ignore that the Great Barrier Reef has been declared dead, with a disastrous impact on marine life.
<< Climate change and ocean acidification have killed off one of the most spectacular features on the planet.
The Koch brothers, their Republican puppets, Trump and his Trumpies all can take a bow.
Is it any wonder that most of the rest of the world now looks at the U.S. environmental policies with dismay, if not total disgust?
Global food security is at great risk if man-made climate change is not mitigated in the near future.
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The world’s population is expected to grow to almost 10 billion by 2050, an increase of around 30 per cent.
Almost half the world’s population relies on food from the ocean as the primary source of protein, and with this anticipated population growth seafood will continue to be in high demand.
For many decades scientists have studied the changing climate and now have clear evidence of impacts on the ocean.>>
<<Rising sea levels will cover wetlands and other low lying habitats where fish reproduce, and destroy mangroves, the nurseries for many commercially important fish species.>>
Because they've been fed the idea that their personal economic conditions and futures are bad or being held back by liberals and environmentalists that are working to destroy their jobs with regulations and taxes. All this while they have been repeatedly told that there is no scientific consensus on climate change and that it's all some kind of hoax to fill the coffers of liberal elites. They've been told this lie so often that spewing it has become almost an involuntary reflex, and it's so ingrained that they would rather see the planet destroyed through the very thing they don't believe in than to simply accept an established fact and work towards a better future. Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, we are all on this planet, and worse comes to worst, we're all going to meet the same fate as a species if we do nothing.
I owe you a rep for this post. Excellent assessment of the knee-jerk rightwing reaction to the idea that billions of humans could be adversely affecting the planet (which seems like a no brainer on its face), born and nurtured by entities who stand to lose if the truth is accepted. Mindless idiots who will usher us into the earth's demise because they lack the ability to think for themselves. This is the mindset that brought the planet President Trump, and it is the mindset that will eventually doom us as a species.
Death of Great Barrier Reef is like Peak Oil, Flat Earth, Global Warming, and Ice Free Antarctica.... End of the Worlders still present in this era... what next? Great Barrier Reef resurrection next year? You Global Warming fanatics love to convert people to your faith...
Children spend money on toys and cool ideas...and Adults operate on a budget. Comments in bold below:
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There are plenty of things we can do that don't require billions of people giving up basic amenities.
& what if none of these "things" work? Who decides if if these "things" are working & if they're "not working", who will decide what amenities we are to give up? The New World Order "Climate Division"?
We can invest in better technologies in power, transportation and even waste disposal, for example.
Whenever I hear the word "invest" it usually means more Tax Money....from Americans.....on sh*t that doesn't work or at best has minimal ROI.
We can have sensible regulations on pollution.
Whenever I hear the word "Regulations", it usually means the stuff that I need to exist... will cost more money.
We can actively choose to have fewer kids.
As a society we already are having fewer kids (at least Americans are). It WOULD be nice if all muslims in the world....and the citizens of 3rd world countries in the world would choose to have less than 2 kids per household. Now THAT would have a significant positive impact on 3 different levels.
We can invest in education.
See above on the use of the word "invest". & Dude, we already are, we're OVERSPENDING on non-practical education. Obama took the national debt from 9 Trillion to 19 Trillion....much of it on "Investments".....and we have NOTHING to show for it.
Why is it that the only choices you see are the status quo or nothing? Do your political biases blind you that much that you really don't think we can't do anything?
And seriously, you're talking about refrigerators and cars while the subject is the actual dying of the planet. Priorities, Jesus.
No the "Subject" was a Barrier Reef off the NE coast of Australia. Which if I remember from my 9th grade Biology class is a natural thing.....reefs (& people) "die"....& then become "islands" (& worm food). 400 or 4000 years from now it will be called a "Great Barrier Island". It'll become a Turista bonanza & will probably resemble a large scale Miami Beach, Jersey Shore & Dubai all rolled into one.
NO MORE LIBERAL INVESTMENTS. You guys are clueless and and have failed on every single investment.....every single time. Enough is enough. The Libs remind me of my wife wanting to take my money and "invest" it at Macy's.
Death of Great Barrier Reef is like Peak Oil, Flat Earth, Global Warming, and Ice Free Antarctica.... End of the Worlders still present in this era... what next? Great Barrier Reef resurrection next year? You Global Warming fanatics love to convert people to your faith...
The death of the Great Barrier Reef is a symptom of an unhealthy planet. Take your blinders off and look at it from a larger perspective, if you are capable.
The death of the Great Barrier Reef is a symptom of an unhealthy planet. Take your blinders off and look at it from a larger perspective, if you are capable.
Trump and other climate change deniers, who never discuss clearly observed empirical impacts such as ocean acidification and ocean warming, now can ignore that the Great Barrier Reef has been declared dead, with a disastrous impact on marine life.
<< Climate change and ocean acidification have killed off one of the most spectacular features on the planet.
The Koch brothers, their Republican puppets, Trump and his Trumpies all can take a bow.
Is it any wonder that most of the rest of the world now looks at the U.S. environmental policies with dismay, if not total disgust?
Global food security is at great risk if man-made climate change is not mitigated in the near future.
<<
The world’s population is expected to grow to almost 10 billion by 2050, an increase of around 30 per cent.
Almost half the world’s population relies on food from the ocean as the primary source of protein, and with this anticipated population growth seafood will continue to be in high demand.
For many decades scientists have studied the changing climate and now have clear evidence of impacts on the ocean.>>
<<Rising sea levels will cover wetlands and other low lying habitats where fish reproduce, and destroy mangroves, the nurseries for many commercially important fish species.>>
Didn't the same group of people predict that Miami and Virginia beach would be under water 5 or 10 years ago?
"The Koch brothers" yet not a word about Tom Steyer or George Soros.
I wonder why?
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