The Great Barrier Reef

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nick c
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The Great Barrier Reef

Unread post by nick c » Sat Aug 27, 2022 2:50 am

Here is an interesting study of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Remember all of the climate change alarmists screaming about coral bleaching? Well apparently the GBR has recovered from that and is now pronounced to be in good health.
https://www.thegwpf.org/publications/gr ... ord-again/


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The latest data on the GBR indicates it is in good shape. It happens to
have a great deal of coral in 2022 because there have been few major
mortality events over the last five to ten years. The three or four bleaching
events since 2016, which have been widely reported in the media, could
not have killed much coral, otherwise the 2022 statistics would not be so
good.
The data since 1986 shows that every region, every sector and most
reefs have had occasionally had periods of very low coral cover for one
reason or another. This is entirely natural. The media makes much of occasional setbacks to coral cover, but a measure of the health of an ecosystem is the ability to recover from a major stress. Frail systems will not recover, robust systems recover well, just as healthy people recover quickly
from disease.
The GBR has proven to be a vibrant and healthy ecosystem. This
should not be a surprise; there are few human pressures on the reef, and
it is well protected. It is also unreasonable to expect that the small temperature rise over the last century (1°C) will have caused much impact, especially as it is well known that most corals grow faster in warmer water.
The data collected by AIMS shows that the GBR is a robust system
with rapidly fluctuating coral cover. We must expect that, sometime in
the future, a sequence of events will cause the coral cover to fall sharply,
as it did in 2011. We must then remember that this is almost certainly
natural, and not allow the merchants of doom to depress the children.
quote source:
https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads ... al-GBR.pdf

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Re: The Great Barrier Reef

Unread post by Maol » Sat Aug 27, 2022 1:00 pm

A bitter disappointment for the catastrophists, but good news for the world at large.

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Re: The Great Barrier Reef

Unread post by nick c » Sat Aug 27, 2022 2:16 pm

[Note: In the article referenced in the original post on this thread, the word "catastrophists" is used in reference to those predictors of imminent doom due to anthropogenic climate change.
Not to be confused with "Catastrophism", which is a paradigm in geology which is associated with Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) and experienced a revival and expansion (neo catastrophism) in the 20th C, spearheaded by Velikovsky. Juergens, Talbott, Cardona, Thornhill, et al...]
Maol wrote:A bitter disappointment for the catastrophists, but good news for the world at large.
Yes. Here is a link with a list of the dismal failure of predictions made by global warming/climate change alarmists over the years.
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/50-years ... -are-0-50/

One of the standards for the evaluation of the effectiveness of a scientific theory is its ability to predict.

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Re: The Great Barrier Reef

Unread post by jackokie » Sat Aug 27, 2022 2:59 pm

Thank you @nick c This part of the report you highlighted caught my eye:
It is also unreasonable to expect that the small temperature rise over the last century (1°C) will have caused much impact, especially as it is well known that most corals grow faster in warmer water.
A clear example of the unseriousness of the Warmists. Another favorite is "sea level rise recorded at tidal gauge" when no other tidal gauge shows any change. That darn Global Warming, messing with our physics again.
Time is what prevents everything from happening all at once.

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