Tag: Australian Institute of Marine Science

coral reefs

Reflections on Claims about Coral Cover (Part 1)

1 year ago
Guest Blogger

In fact, the method used to survey the corals makes it impossible to determine whether the loss is statistically significance or not, and the surveys were only of the reef…

Bad science coral reefs

Latest Survey of ‘Coral Cover’ Fundamentally Unscientific

4 years ago
Guest Blogger

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…

Climate News Oceans

Good news about coral reefs – they recovered from warming

13 years ago
Anthony Watts

Back in 1998, when we had the super El Niño, some of the warm water pooled east and west of Australia (seen in the 1998 image below) and damaged coral…

Oceans

Reef Alarmists Jump The Shark

13 years ago
Anthony Watts

by Walter Starck (with thanks to Dr. Bob Carter) The Great Barrier Reef is doomed again. A recent widely publicised scientific study reports the dramatic finding that it has lost…

Oceans

The fishes and the coral live happily in the CO2 bubble plume

14 years ago
Anthony Watts

Guest post by David Archibald Willis Eschenbach’s post on lab work on coral response to elevated carbon dioxide levels, and The Reef Abides, leads to a large scale, natural experiment…

Alarmism Oceans

Coral bleaching on the GBR – no evidence of net decline

15 years ago
Anthony Watts

From Andrew Bolt at Australia’s Herald Sun below, some sharp evidence in a new paper that the “coral bleaching” scare of the Great Barrier Reef is unfounded and mostly made…