Claim: Great Barrier Reef Set to Disappear Because of Global Warming

Well surely the ‘dinosaur killer’ made the world colder? whereas at present it is heating up…

and if corals have survived numerous climate change events, they haven’t always survived in the same place.

There are papers around telling just the opposite 😀

The GBR contains over 600 coral species, more than 3/4 of all known species.

Besides moving south, the mix of more and less heat-tolerant species can change.

But many corals like it hot. Modern groups evolved in the Mesozoic, with average sea temperatures higher than now. Max temps were also hotter.

Politicians are (like most Journalists) not the sharpest arrows in the quiver. They surely have messed up the world’s response to Covid-19
https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/FLCCC-Statement-on-Weak-Guidance-on-Ivermectin-from-WHO-March-31-2021.pdf

I’m more worried about the starfish kill-off than the corals.

‘a “green and just” recovery from the Covid-19 crisis’

LOL. These people are so incredibly IQ-challenged. Is there no crisis, emergency, or human suffering that they will not try to hijack into their green policies?

How about we address COVID-19 to save human lives? It’s now, real, and has a practical solution.

If they want to help the Great Barrier Reef then address the pollution coming down the rivers (primarily fertilizer run-off). That is measurable and has practical solutions too.

There’s no evidence that we’ve made the ocean a little warmer.

Must be April fools. This piece of junk returns every year and every year itś nonsens.
How many Groundhog Day’s/Memento’s must I endure?

For your average Finn he has a remarkably Latin name. Perhaps his sunkennastiness has cought up with him. As they say in Switzerland: off into the ocean with him. 😉

Nice pic from 2016 by Peter Ridd. It would be nice to see the same shot in 2021. Having grown prolifically, and by 2016 exposed to sunlight, air, and warm water in the temporary shallows caused by prevailing winds….all these corals should now be bleached white dead with parts of them washed up as beach sand. New pic to confirm coral life cycle, Peter ?

Pinch, punch first of the month

This is “science”? Hard corals first appear in the fossil record during the Ordovician period about 488 million years ago when atmospheric CO2 levels peaked at over 2,000 PPM!

SIDC sunspot data for March are out, After about 15 months from its start the SC25 is still in its low phase, it might end up longer and weaker than average.
After the Kamchatka’s late December eruptions (caused SSW, discussed on the WUWT in mid January), the stratosphere has cooled well below average and it is still there.

Yawn. Here we go again, against all evidence.

It must be April 1.

The idea that a tropical warmth loving organism would somehow die off because we’ve made the ocean a little warmer is absurd.

I’d be surprised if it wasn’t. Is there an claim about the “climate crisis” or AGW made by the true believer warmulists that is NOT absurd? If so. I have yet to hear of it.

The GBR disappeared entirely during the last glaciation and started re-appearing about 9,000 years ago. The aboriginal inhabitants must have been terrified by the rise in sea level … about 120m 400ft).

Keep in mind, calcium and magnesium carbonate deposits form and grow in warm shallow seas. The warmth is a key ingredient to the carbonates stability otherwise they can dissolve via calcium or magnesium bicarbonate dissolution. That’s what happens in the cold deep ocean.

Again ? I thought I disappeared it 8000 years ago.
What is it, some kind of regenerating zombie ?
yours sincerely ,
God

Eric

This must put the GBR in line for

“more farewells than Dame Nellie Melba”. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Melba

The GBR did not exist, as we know it, 15000 years ago when sea levels were 400 feet lower. Was there a GBR during the last interglacial? If so then nature rules when and how long it survives.

Just curious — when sea levels were over 100 meters lower during the last Ice Age, wasn’t the area occupied by the current Great Barrier Reef high and dry? Did they walk into deeper water? And then pick up and move into shallower waters as ocean levels rose??

The current Great Barrier Reef has only been in place for less than 10,000 years. Previously the continental shelf on which it lives was dry land until the oceans rose and corals migrated there and built up the reefs we see today. It is nonsense to suggest it has been around for millions of years.

It should be suggested that the EU Official, Virginijus Sinkevičius, read Peter Ridd’s book, “Reef Heresy?” He will find that it is certain that he will disappear well before the GBR.

Aussie CO2 = bad. Chinese CO2 = good.

If there wasn’t a single person alive in Australia, it wouldn’t make the blindest difference to CO2 levels so why are they being singled out?

The majority of the Great Barrier Reef is less than 20,000 years old. It was dry land before then. Does it say this in the article?

The title is wrong. It should instead be how many times this week have “scientists” proclaimed that the GBR is going to be destroyed by CO2. How does that compare with last week?

This continual flow of nonsense about the Great Barrier Reef being about to vanish is becoming seriously tedious. It is like a perpetual April Fools Day joke presented by the April Fools. If there was Global Warming, it would make the reef bigger not smaller as life likes warmth not chill.

A bit further south but on radio this morning I heard a report from Philip Island that the world famous fairy penguin population there is booming. Not had to guess but climate change was blamed as the primary culprit. Seems like we need to cool the oceans, kill off their food supply and starve the little buggers to death.

It is dated 31st of March innthe article https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/01/european-union-official-sounds-alarm-over-threats-to-great-barrier-reef

Like all coral reefs the Great Barrier Reef lives, the cycles of death and renewal are constant and at any given time the life cycles will vary across the reef location.

The GBR is however healthy and politically based claims about it disappearing defy logic and fact.

And consider why the GBR is picked on, there are many coral reefs around Australia and globally. Answer of course is cherry picking by leftist warming hoaxers. GBR is a very well known internationally tourist destination so the propaganda spin doctors target it.

Virginijus Sinkevičius – love the name, but that’s about all

Great Barrier Reef Set to Disappear..,
but when? Catastrophic alarmists making predictions with no dates now? They have learned that when they have predictions with dates they always fail. Especially when date is within a lifetime when people can remember the failed prediction.
My accurate prediction: GBR was not there ten zillion years ago, and it will not be there ten zillion years from now. Be afraid, very afraid!!

Genetic manipulation of Corals sound extreme in this study
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/5/2232

I wonder how the GBR was doing 18k years ago when it was 400 feet above sea level?

“ At worse global warming would push Aussie Coral reefs a little further South, away from the equator” There are reefs round Papua New Guinea with the same species as the GBR (Ridd) and much warmer water. So no, it wont move south.

absurd, by dinosaur times and later mammals , CO2 concentration was up to 2000 ppm , corals never disappeared , they probably evolve according to Darwin principles .
Great barrier didn’t exist 10’000 years ago , nothing remain unchanged over the time !

Claim: Great Barrier Reef Set to Disappear Because of Global Warming
I thought it already had?
OH! Wait. That was the Polar Ice Cap that already disappeared. (Several times by what they’ve said.)

Great Barrier Reef Set to Disappear Because of Global Warming

What – again?