Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Climate skeptic Aussie One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has challenged marine park authorities to explain why giving them money will help prevent global warming from bleaching coral reefs.
Pauline Hanson gives Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s top scientist a serve over coral bleaching
Rebecca GredleyAAP
Monday, 21 October 2019 3:50 pm…
“You’re saying that coral bleaching is affected by water temperatures,” she told Dr David Wachenfeld.
“Yet around Indonesia, closer to the equator … where the water temperatures are 29C, it’s a known fact that coral actually grows faster and more prolific in warmer temperatures.“
Wachenfeld explained that corals live in a variety of water temperatures over the world, with substantial differences even within the Great Barrier Reef.
“The fact that corals in Indonesia could withstand higher temperatures than corals on the central Great Barrier Reef is of no benefit to the corals of the central Great Barrier Reef when they die.”
But Hanson was not swayed, asking how the authority planned to address both water temperatures and the “natural occurrence” of bleaching events with its taxpayer funding.
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Read more: https://7news.com.au/politics/pauline-hanson/coral-bleaching-happens-naturally-hanson-c-514581
Climate skeptic Pauline Hanson and her fellow One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts are an ongoing thorn in the side of Australia’s climate wastrel politicians.
I think Pauline’s question about funding is applicable to all climate science expenditures. If the science is settled, if we know we’re all doomed by 2050 or whatever, what is the point of spending billions of dollars every year to tell us what we already know?
When is the last time an alarmist climate scientist had anything new to say about the future of our global climate?
No bleaching at Bikini Atoll where man does not go and where the coral is in pristine condition and growing like a forest.
There is a clue in there.
Aargh! Mutated coral will take over the world. 😇
If “man” does not go to Bikini Atoll, Richard, how do we know there is no coral bleaching there?
I’m not too worried about the Great Barrier Reef. Why? “The Bahamas is comprised of 700 islands and over 2,000 rocks and cays, sprinkled over 100,000 square miles of ocean. The archipelago is an ecological oasis, boasting the clearest water on the planet.” Coral Reefs turn into Coral islands. How did that happen, Mr Coral Reef Scientist?
To A.C. Osborn, a big question, the answer is yes, there have been droughts before in this area (western NSW) but we don’t have a very long record historical record.
First, there are Aboriginal legends of droughts, often focusing on rainmakers; and also stories about the creation of rivers and in one example of the drying up of a tributary of the Darling.
Second, European historical records are short. The problem here is that although the Sydney colony was set up in 1788, it was 40 years before any Europeans got to western NSW, and another 20 years before the Darling River was surveyed. Pastoral squatters moved in around 1850-60, with the first riverboat up the Darling in 1859. Early records focus on the occasional big floods which reflects the normality of semi-arid conditions. The big historical drought was 1895-1903, the Federation Drought. The current droughts since 2000 have been worse (depends on exactly what criteria you chose, and how you want to spin it). There were many times of lesser droughts, with low river levels and fish kills. I’m pulling this historical data together.
The Aboriginal knowledge is sparse. There was a lot of early conflict and while Aboriginal people survived, languages were lost and culture fragmented. In any case, stories of great droughts and rainmakers can’t be pinned down in time. Further inland, the European historical record is shorter but the Aboriginal knowledge is richer, especially where language is still spoken.
Finally, there is much archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data; notably from Lake Mungo and the other Willandra Lakes. The work here has focussed on the older records and large-scale climate change (15-60,000 years) not so much on the last 10,000. Also the resolution can’t get down to individual droughts, and this is an area of poor pollen preservation. Too big a topic for a single comment!
Wasn’t the entire state of Florida once a coral reef? Things change. Just sayin.
Banning granular synthetic fertilizer in Australia would prevent coral bleaching all around the country.
People would need to buy the waste from the meat industries and use liquid only fert which if applied to the point of run-off kills plants too.
This is my bailiwick, you can’t argue against it.
Questioning what’s being done with the money granted/laundered to eco-loons (whoever they are) is fightin’ words. Expect her to be viciously attacked.
. Tom Foley October 23, 2019 at 10:16 pm
Don’t worry, be happy –
Know Your Terms: Shooting Stars, Dirty ‘Snowballs’ and Space Rocks on Earth …
dirty snowballs from meteors from http://www.pbs.org
Earth’s water daily gets recycled by the same plants that “consumed” it.
dirty snowballs from meteors from http://www.pbs.org
15 Feb 2013 · Comets are several miles in diameter,
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The Eddington luminosity, also referred to as the Eddington limit, is the maximum luminosity a body (such as a star) can achieve when there is balance between the force of radiation acting outward and the gravitational force acting inward. The state of balance is called hydrostatic.
Planet Earth too gets some reserve tank refills:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Know+Your+Terms%3A+Shooting+Stars%2C+Dirty+%27Snowballs%27+and+Space+Rocks+on+Earth+…+%EF%BF%BC+15+Feb+2013+%C2%B7+Comets+are+several+miles+in+diameter%2C+composed+of+rock%2C+ice+and+other+organic+compounds%2C+making+them+%E2%80%9Cdirty+snowballs%E2%80%9D+in+space%2C+according+to+NASA%27s+near+earth+object+program.+They+originate+outside+the+orbit+of+the+outermost+planets+and+form+elliptical+orbits+that+pass+close+to+the+sun.&oq=K.
.hopefully to be of any help.
. Tom Foley October 23, 2019 at 10:16 pm
Don’t worry, be happy –
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-huawei&sxsrf=ACYBGNQZcIjbphYfkSbx26viGyH3g4gzBA%3A1571879504039&ei=UPqwXa_-AcKmmwWk5ImQCA&q=Eddington+Limit&oq=Eddington+Limit&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.
dirty snowballs from meteors from http://www.pbs.org
Earth’s water daily gets recycled by the same plants that “consumed” it.
15 Feb 2013 · Comets are several miles in diameter,
.
The Eddington luminosity, also referred to as the Eddington limit, is the maximum luminosity a body (such as a star) can achieve when there is balance between the force of radiation acting outward and the gravitational force acting inward. The state of balance is called hydrostatic.
Planet Earth too gets some reserve tank refills:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Know+Your+Terms%3A+Shooting+Stars%2C+Dirty+%27Snowballs%27+and+Space+Rocks+on+Earth+…+%EF%BF%BC+15+Feb+2013+%C2%B7+Comets+are+several+miles+in+diameter%2C+composed+of+rock%2C+ice+and+other+organic+compounds%2C+making+them+%E2%80%9Cdirty+snowballs%E2%80%9D+in+space%2C+according+to+NASA%27s+near+earth+object+program.+They+originate+outside+the+orbit+of+the+outermost+planets+and+form+elliptical+orbits+that+pass+close+to+the+sun.&oq=K.
.hopefully to be of any help.