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Coral Snapshot 2022-23, & All the Unanswered Questions

It is impossible to reconcile 60% bleaching based on the official aerial survey with 0% bleaching based on the official underwater survey for John Brewer Reef, with both surveys undertaken…

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Happy Easter, Happy End of the 2023 Cyclone Season at the Great Barrier Reef

The available data shows that there has been a steady decline in both the number and intensity of cyclones since the 1970s.

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Professor Peter Ridd – The World’s Coral Reefs are not Declining

Professor Ridd reviews the latest data on the state of the world’s coral reefs, which is extremely encouraging, especially for the Great Barrier Reef, the largest single reef system, with…

New Study Confirms Coral Reefs Are Adapting to Warmer Waters

Why are they constantly peddling such doom?

Record Great Barrier Reef Coral Cover – Time to Pull the Climate Crisis Funding?

The Guardian talking up the alleged climate risk to the reef, in the midst of a record boom in coral cover.

Aussie Scientists Freezing Coral to Protect them From Climate Change

Coral survived the dinosaur killer, the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, and the Quaternary ice age. But apparently we must spend millions on cryo-storage to protect coral from anthropogenic climate change.

Get it Right, Washington Post, Climate Change Isn’t Causing a Decline in Coral Reefs

Because climate change isn’t harming coral reefs, trying to protect coral health by fighting global warming is a misplaced effort.

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Australian Academy of Science Demands Dissent be Silenced

In a submission to the Australian Government, the AAS has demanded “disinformation” about climate change, the great barrier reef, and Covid vaccines be censored from broadcast news and the internet.

Peter Ridd on Great Barrier Reef Recovery: Technical Details of Coral Cover Statistics, and Background

We must then remember that this is almost certainly natural, and not allow the merchants of doom to depress the children.

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Latest Survey of ‘Coral Cover’ Fundamentally Unscientific

The relatively low percentage cover is because only the reef perimeter is surveyed by AIMS, which is the equivalent of reporting on the population of Sydney after skirting around the…

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It’s the Wrong Kind of Coral

As word of the recovery of the Great Barrier Reef spreads, the inevitable rationalization from alarmists appears.

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Sorry, CNN, Great Barrier Reef Is Setting Records, Fearmongering Won’t Work

The evidence suggests, contrary to CNN’s fearmongering, climate change does not threaten to decimate the GBR or other coral reefs around the world. That’s something people around the globe can be…

Surprise – the Australian Great Barrier Reef has “Bounced Back” from Climate Change

I know all of you will be surprised that an organism which survived the dinosaur killer has has shown an unexpected ability to cope with a degree of global warming…

Film Premiere “A Coral Bleaching Tragedy” in Brisbane This Sunday

If you are in Brisbane this Sunday at 2pm Peter Ridd & Jennifer Marohasy will attend a premiere viewing of their new film “A Coral Bleaching Tragedy”.

Rebels to the Coral Reef Cause (Part 2)

To the extent that it is possible for any human endeavour to be so, science is value-free.

Rebels to the Coral Reef Cause (Part 1)

Everybody claims to care about the Great Barrier Reef, but very few people take the time to actually visit it.

Lessons from the Past: How Cold-water Corals Respond to Global Warming

Food and oxygen have the greatest impact on survival

The Guardian: Global Warming is GOOD for Rare Coral?

A rare Guardian good news climate change story.

Leonard Lim’s Exquisite Photography of John Brewer Reef

Anyone serious about accurately reporting coral cover at John Brewer reef would swim around the perimeter and also over the top where most of the coral is – this is…

Epicentre of Mass Coral Bleaching – Still So Beautiful (Part 1)

On 10th April 2022 I went to the very epicentre of the claimed latest severe mass coral bleaching, and found a coral wonderland.

Fake Warming Along the Great Barrier Reef

By using visions of dying reefs to thieve ever more money from Australian taxpayers, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies has built an elaborate castle-in-the-air.

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Sorry, WaPo, There Is No Evidence Bleaching Threatens a Great Barrier Reef “Tipping Point”

From ClimateREALISM By H. Sterling Burnett -March 29, 2022 The Washington Post (WaPo) published an article today discussing the fact that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) recently suffered its “sixth massive bleaching event,” blaming…

Not Expecting Coral Bleaching During a La Niña

When you get down to Earth and under-the-water, well Pixie Reef was magnificently healthy. I am going to visit it again, soon, to check how it is this year.

One New Coral Reef Study Wipes Out Four Climate Alarm Narratives In One Fell Swoop

From the NoTricksZone By Kenneth Richard on 24. February 2022 Corals thrive in multiple-degrees-warmer-than-today waters and their growth is stunted in cooler environments. The warnings peddled by climate alarmists often characterize Earth’s 500 billion…