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A study of samples taken from inside the bodies of centuries-old coral has revealed the threat climate change now poses to the Great Barrier Reef.
Researchers in Australia say temperatures in and around the vast coral reef over the past decade are the highest recorded in 400 years.
Extreme heat has already caused five mass bleaching events in the past nine years alone.
Writing in the journal Nature the scientists behind the study said increased temperatures, driven by climate change, now pose an “existential threat” to this natural wonder of the world.
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Climate Alarmist false claims
Alarmist Claim #1: Antarctic Peninsula is shrinking FACT: 2008 peer-reviewed paper in American Geophysical Union found “a doubling in snow accumulation in the western Antarctic Peninsula since 1850.”
Alarmist Claim #2: Glaciers are melting throughout the world. FACT: A UN Report in 2010 reported that “glaciers increasing despite climate change… glaciers in many areas of the world are increasing.”
Alarmist Claim #3: The IPCC stated the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. . FACT: The IPCC got that unsubstantiated and false statistic from a World Wildlife Federation brochure. In January 2010, Time magazine article, Himalayan Melting, How a Climate Panel Got it Wrong: “Glaciergate” is a “black eye for the IPCC and the climate-science community as a whole.”
Alarmist Claim #4: Polar Bears are disappearing. FACT: Director of Wildlife Research with the Arctic Government of Nunavut: “Of 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present.” FACT: In the 50’s and 60’s there were between 5,000 and 10,000 polar bears. Today there are between 15,000 and 25,000.
Alarmist Claim #5: May 2013, President Obama claimed the climate is warming faster than anybody anticipated five or 10 years ago.” FACT: Nature reported “For the period [1998-2012] the observed trend of temperatures is … not significantly different from zero and suggests a temporary hiatus in global warming.” FACT: The Economist reported “over the past 15 years, air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat …”
Alarmist Claim #6: 2014 was the warmest year in modern record by 0.02 degree. FACT: Only a “38% chance 2014 was the warmest year on record.” Margin of error, which on average is 0.1 degree Celsius, made “impossible to conclude 2014 was the warmest year” according to the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project stated,
Alarmist Claim #7: In 2000, Democrats started saying that the science is settled. FACT: I started getting phone calls from scientists disagreeing so I made a speech on the floor showing how many scientists disagreed.
Alarmist Claim #8: Global warming is causing more tornadoes. FACT: A NOAA scientist rejected global warming link to tornados stating “no specific consensus or connection between global warming and tornadic activity.”
Alarmist Claim #9: Global warming is causing hurricanes to increase in intensity and frequency. FACT: Geophysical Research Letters found “since 2006 tropical cyclone energy has decreased dramatically” to the lowest levels since the 1970s. Global frequency of tropical cyclones has reached a historic low.
Alarmist Claim #10: Global warming is leading to an increased number of droughts. FACT: IPCC Fifth Assessment report, previous “conclusions regarding global increasing trend in drought since the 1970s were probably overstated.”
Alarmist Claim #11: Global warming is causing sea levels to rise at a rapid pace. FACT: Journal of Geophysical Research found “there has been no statistically significant acceleration in sea level rise over the past 100 plus years.” Alarmist Claim #12: 97% of scientists agree global warming is manmade. FACT: WSJ found the 97% consensus to be predicated on “a handful of surveys and abstract-counting exercises that have been contradicted by more reliable research.” R
Climate change is real. The hysteria is not.
Hey y’all I live in FL and last year a developer cut down 55 acres of old oak hammock – guess what my electric bill went up because I lost shade and gained sun thus raising the temperature about 10* in my neighborhood!
Wow climate change without a carbon / fuel issue !
How about we start simply with protecting the old woods in the world
However, don’t get too excited about stopping climate change/global warming because during the great tribulation Jesus is going to torch this whole place!
Then rebuild it all better
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In 2012, "experts" from the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences predicted that corals in the central and southern areas of the Barrier Reef would decline to only 5% to 10% of their former numbers by 2022.
But in 2024, the corals are at a record high.
Peter Ridd reminds us of the AIMS team's 2012 prediction that coral cover in the central and southern regions would decline to 5 to 10 percent by 2022. Instead, the entire reef is thriving at 30 percent.
All warnings you get in the media are fakenews.
I said i don't care
I'll believe this "global boiling" bollox when the 1% start selling their beach mansions. 😀
It’s earths core.
Please remember the earth does not have a stable climate. Climate change is normal and expected. The sun is gone into a hyper active phase plus the earth has shifted on its axis so of course the climate is changing. I recently read an article on NPR explaining how the sun is producing more radiation as seen by the northern lights being seen much further south than normal. After taking several paragraphs explaining this the last sentence was the earth was hotter due to man made global warming. Do they think we are idiots? Last thought do they even teach that ice age occur every 10 to 15k years and that we are coming up on another ice age. I’m 70 when I was in college we were taught the earth’s temps rose drastically before the ice age set in. So this seems completely normal.
No one is buying that bs about climate change anymore.
So here is my glimmer of hope. I read that in the short time during covid that people were mostly off the roads and inside, there was a measurable improvement in air quality. So maybe if the world leaders can pull their heads out if their asses, doing something may not take as long as youd think.
If the oceans are rising, why did Obummer buy a seaside mansion? 🤷🏿
I don't know how to explain this, it can only be called miraculous that somehow in my 68 years on this planet I wasn't frozen in the (scientifically proven) new iceage. Also avoided being burnt up under ozone hole, melted by acid rain, drowned by rising oceans, displaced by climate refugees, starved by worldwide famines….If you want the truth about the Reef see Peter Ridd, worlds foremost expert with over 100 published papers on it.
STOP CHEMTRAILS
There are reports of record growth for three consecutive years on the Great Barrier Reef and it has the most coral in over 36 years.
I’m sure the scientists paid millions for their research by the government would never adjust their opinions to satisfy said government. Just look at the Big Pharma scientists. They are perfectly reliable
Who cares??
I HAATE trees they are so gross and disgusting
Shame on anyone if they care about the environment. That makes them bad people
Weirdo you are if you care about the vulgar disgusting environment
Climate change is the biggest hoax of our lifetime. Newsflash: THE CLIMATE ALWAYS CHANGES.
The fact that you all have convinced a large portion of people into believing they are the cause for the weather changing is beyond anything I could ever imagine. It’s even worse knowing they believe giving the government more money will stop the climate from changing. Brain dead.
All we need to do is move away from burning fossil fuels as fast as we possibly can
The key is a collective agreement to develop Magma Energy/electricity/hydrogen energy technology sufficient to global energy demand by 2050 – and there’s endless potential for growth thereafter. (Assuming that energy is used to desalinate, irrigate, recycle and capture carbon – as well as meet human and industrial energy needs we can survive and prosper into the long term future.)
I’m not trying to be famous. I’m trying to be serious. Humans are going to meet an undignified end in short order if I don’t talk about this; and get this talked about. Magma Energy is the only way this works. We need massive amounts of clean energy to survive and prosper into the future, and wind and solar won’t provide that. Magma Energy can do that and much more.
It’s an opportunity where there is none. And it’s the natural course of development; fossil fuels were one of a series of energy revolutions that have driven human civilisation forward throughout the ages. NASA/Sandia’s Magma Energy Projects’ conclusions are perfectly credible, even if politicians spilled coffee on the report, and it filed under forget about it. Even Al Gore forgot about the Magma Energy project. President Biden is building a windmill factory atop a monolithic geothermal energy deposit that stretches from one end to the other of the west of …. I want to say the state of Colorado. But it’s pretty much the entire Western half of the American continent.
Zooming out, like one were looking down from space, the entire western United States is touched by a ribbon of energy arching over the Pacific roof of the world from Peru, South Central North American Canada, up and over the roof of the world down to Australia and China. Monolithic, relatively shallow, relatively isolated magma energy deposits humankind could harness, convert to electricity and hydrogen – and ship around the wld carbon free. One could ship superheated bricks – the size of a ship; plug into the grid from the harbour, then sail back for more. It’s all possible; a potential future so bright the opportunity for it cannot be ignored in face of catastrophe.
It pays to consider the economic implications of applying Magma Energy technology in light of the certainty that all accounts will fall to zero, if the insurance, real estate, banking dominoes begin to fall as a consequence of climate change. Increasing probabilities of flood and fire may increase premiums to unsustainable levels. If property becomes uninsurable in significant quantities then Freddie and Fanny will be a fond memory, by comparison – and that was bad enough for banking.
A 2050 horizon for fossil fuels is implied by vague aspirations not objected to by 25 or more annual conferences at COP. Developing Magma Energy technology on that time scale seems not unreasonable; that the world has an adequate clean energy platform to transition to – rather than either continued fossil fuel dependence, or clean energy poverty (my money is on the former!) should not be a market negative. Significant disruption to market conditions must be anticipated in any case. It could be a boon. A surety!
the earth is a beautiful miracle in an empty space , but i cant say or do anything about it because that makes me far right or a terrorist , so sad all you can do is watch it being destroyed , the uk is beginning to feel like russia
If you understand the cause due to climate change, why the world especially the West is delaying the transition. You can preach yet did nothing for years. Now China decided to take the lead but US and the other Western nations are not supporting, hence what is the point of studying and research?
We are still coming out of an ice age! 🤡🌎 Deal with plastics and polution but the carbon agenda is a hoax, designed to strip you of your wealth and freedom!
"Parts of Great Barrier Reef See Most Extensive Coral Cover In 36 Years" ~ Yale School of the Environment 2023, reported for misinformation.
Bleaching is normal and is a process all coral goes through every few years. Microbes are released – hence the whitening – and after a short time new microbes are attracted and absorbed into the coral. Its been observed for years……..except by MSM of course, hence the "fake news" THEY spread………but you are not allowed to !!!
I recommend the "Reef Rebels" channel here on YT if you want factual and scientific info on this subject.
CO2 have both a corrosive/abrasive and a warm dividing effect. The empirical experiment by placing an ice cube in fresh water of room temperature and an ice cube in plain sparkling water (with only extra CO2, no extra sugar, salt…) with same room temperature show that the ice cube in the latter melts first – or rather the "melting" starts with a lot of energetic CO2 bubbles hitting the ice cube causing eddies breaking and mixing currents near the ice cube, tearing it faster down.
Opposite what we get with the fluids of low (fridge) temperature – then the ice cube in fresh water melts first. CO2-molecules transfer heat among the molecules through water layers of a bit higher temperature – these layers are less dense than the melting cool water, meaning the heat transfer is easier to happen in warm layers. The nature rule of least resistance. After some time there is so much cool water that it suddenly collides with the warm layers, so we get more rapid melting. But that's too late.
But if we introduce a little stirring and do the experiments again, we get same melting time!
So we should avoid having flat sea beds (by trawling) surrounding coral reefs, but have a lot of different high stones (or rough terrain) nearby to get enough eddies there (levelling by better mixing of cool and hot currents) – then less stratified water that cause more damage by sudden warm currents hitting the coral reefs.
Surprise to see comments turned on for the BBC!
In case you don't know, let me introduce The Four Evils campaign for you, it was one of the first campaigns of the Great Leap Forward in Maoist China from 1958 to 1962. Authorities targeted four "pests" for elimination: rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows. communists value the power of humans, they are always trying to change the world by their hands, and so that have done lots of disasters. this toxic spreaded from Germany to Asia 100 years ago, but its root still lives in Europe. humans' activities do affect the enviornment, but we cannot change it, climate change is a narcissistic conspiracy, humans can affect the climate but not change it, climate fluctuation by its own rules.
What a mess you people have made
This the price of the wealth of the western world
If people truly cared about environment we would all live in communal style hi-rises. Nobody would own personal vehicles, electronics etc.
Go look at the new report reviewing BBC climate "reporting". It's a long list of hysterical misinformation.
well the env*ronmant / cl*mate is VULGAR anyway
BBC pushing the government Narritive to ensure future BBC funding?
We will learn our lesson only when it's too late.
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Come out.
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GBR is extremely healthy. Bleaching events from fresh water run off events.
Core samples were from all around the coral sea. GBR has shown cooling and warming over last 400 years.
Colorado will lose wildlife habitat so German giant RWE can build “GREEN SOLAR” to sell Americans in desert cities power for air conditioners, AI and electric cars. Reintroduce wolves but kill the pronghorn? Stupidity abounds around the world.
Global warming has already become one of the biggest employers. AND wouldn't it be just awesome if all seaside towns would turn into Venice. For example, everyone now has the chance to buy cheap land in Greenland in order to grow bananas there some day. I used to live down under but if you're looking for solutions, don't look there.
Climate change & extinction of life.
ITS TO LATE!
Water weight displacement has a tremendous affect on continental positions.
As The ice melts the location of the water changes and applies pressure on different regions around the world causing subduction zones to accelerate advancing the movement of geographical regions.
As the tundra warms up it is releasing 2X more carbon into our atmosphere than what currently exists. the rate of carbon release increases as the tundra warms up while the increased carbon levels speed up the tundra thaw rate advancing the ice melt progression Speed.
Alignment with solar entities also affect the push and pull affect on the planet also contributing to regional movements of land mass.
Over this next 10 years you will see mass movement of continents around the world as the ice in the north and south melt while displacing the weight through water distribution.
The weight of the ice won’t be there anymore causing the land mass to rise and the water will relocate to the equator adding weight affecting the shape of the earth resulting in extensive land mass movement.
Atmospheric pressure will also be a contributing factor as there will be more water evaporation and condensation with precipitation all over the earth.
The earth crust is floating and being recycled over time.
Spring and autumn are much shorter seasons compared to a decade ago.
2027-2034 are going to be a period of time where mass effect on planetary events/climate change will dramatically disrupt global agriculture.
Add into the equation the unpredictable forest fires, the ongoing wars igniting oil fires and the possible use of nuclear weapons while Factoring in the radiation we are currently subjecting our atmosphere to with cell phone towers, wifi routers, and 5-6G satellites. it seems futile combating the inevitable.
As the ice melts from the north and south the water displacement around earth will redistribute weight on tectonic plates all over the world.
This will accelerate the movement of subduction zones causing massive earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and continental shifts.
The extra water will lead to excessive rain/storms causing landslides and flooding everywhere advancing the severity of the temperatures, wind speeds, humidity and electrical activity.
The Hudson Bay will eventually rupture the North American continent from the Hudson Bay to the Mississippi all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.
The subduction zone’s on the west coast will slide under the continent.
Mount Saint Helens and Yellowstone super volcano will erupt.
We are already seeing this in process with earthquakes, flooding and volcanoes most recently in Japan, Russia, Italy, Iceland, Hawaii, China, east central North America and India.
It’s recommended to be 500km away from oceans, 500ft above sea levels, 500km away from subduction zones and 500 km west of any volcanic zones.
These will be the safest places but you will still have to figure out how you are going to sustain yourself in the recommended area’s.
Global mass migration is inevitable. Billion’s or people and animals will perish and food shortages will be overwhelming. Diseases will be unprecedented.
In addition consider what’s going to happen to all the nuclear power plants, weapons and waste with mass depopulation.
Sadly Tibet, New Zealand and Antarctica are probably going to be the best places to be.
Earth probably won’t be inhabitable for the next 30k years.
Greed, pursuit of power, ego and selfishness is the downfall of humanity as we enter the extinction of life on earth.
It is impossible for the infrared radiation from CO2 to warm the oceans, it cannot penetrate more than 1mm in to the water, shortwave sunlight, on the other hand, can penetrate down to 100 meters. So it is an increase in sunlight that is warming our oceans, nothing to do with CO2.
😂😂😂😂😂lies,lies,lies
The great barrier reef is in excellent conditions reefs only exists in warmer waters . They have been around for 500 million years and will be around long after these lying fear mongering idoits are long gone.
If something is from BBC YOU CAN BE SURE THAT THEY LIE TO YOU. its their job.
So, why is it growing? Also, not hotter than it was 100 years ago
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All the effort to use global warming to drive interests…LISTEN, outer space is -458 deg F…it never changes and absorbs any global heat… this entire surface area of the atmosphere is the largest heat exchanger… just like a industrial tube bundle that uses steam, to heat water….just a fact physics never lies