The Great Barrier Reef is Doing Just Fine

Remember the crisis of the Great Barrier Reef? Never mind. It seems the GBR is doing just fine, and embattled Professor Peter Ridd is awarded a big "I told you so" to direct at his opponents.

Good news for Australia’s Barrier Reef you’ll likely not hear about in the media
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Dr. Peter Ridd writes on his Facebook page: In 2016, there was a major bleaching event in the northern section of the Reef. There were doom headlines around the world…

Dr. Peter Ridd writes on his Facebook page:

In 2016, there was a major bleaching event in the northern section of the Reef.

There were doom headlines around the world and Prof Hughes, who led the monitoring of the coral, famously tweeted“I showed the results of the aerial surveys of bleaching on the GBR to my students. And then we wept”

It is time to stop crying.

The worst affected area for that event, around Lizard Island where coral cover halved, has now totally recovered. It only took 5 years. The bleaching certainly caused the worst mortality in this area since records began in 1985. In this period, it had not been smashed by cyclones like other areas further south. In future posts I’ll show some other regions with huge natural changes in coral cover. All except the Swains region are at, or above, long-term average values. Some, like the Townsville region, are at near-record highs.


See links below. . . .

 

a year of everyone locked down and earth recovers some

 

The recovery began five years ago.

 

I am skeptical of Dr. Peter Ridd
Great Barrier Reef expert panel says Peter Ridd misrepresenting science | Great Barrier Reef | The Guardian

An expert panel led by the former chief scientist Ian Chubb has warned ministers that controversial scientist Peter Ridd is misrepresenting robust science about the plight of the Great Barrier Reef, and compared his claims to the strategy used by the tobacco industry to raise doubt about the impact of smoking.

The warning, in a letter to the federal environment minister, Sussan Ley, and the Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, follows Ridd launching a lecture tour in which he has repeated his claim that farmland pollution does not significantly damage the natural wonder.

Ridd’s tour has been supported by rightwing commentators and sugarcane industry managers campaigning against proposed state regulations limiting sediment and chemical runoff on the reef coast.

Dr. Ridd makes his case here, The truth about the Great Barrier reef: Peter Ridd explains - Energy & Environment (ncc.org.au)
and what he says is rejected by other scientists.

The Truth about the Great Barrier Reef: Peter Ridd Expalins

A doubling of carbon dioxide from pre-industrial levels would have a modest effect (a one-degree temperature increase), in fact it has clear benefits for increased plant productivity, Dr Ridd said. The waters of the GBR have increased by “maybe 0.7 of a degree … there is no way … that all these corals are within one degree of their peak thermal threshold.”

(Dr Ridd was dismissed from James Cook University for questioning the accuracy of claims by colleagues on the state of the GBR. He has sought leave to appeal to the High Court over his sacking, and his appeal is progressing. The Court will hear arguments in February.)

Read, "Great Barrier Reef Headed for Massive Death"
Great Barrier Reef headed for ‘massive death’ - CNN.com

Read the Business Insider,
Why the Great Barrier Reef Could Disappear by 2050 (businessinsider.com)

 

There's much you don't know.
Big Victory in War of Academic Freedom
Charles Rotter
The Institute of Public Affairs has today welcomed the historic judgement of the High Court in the case of James Cook University (JCU) v Peter Ridd, which has given Dr…

 

JCU has been on the defensive.
James Cook University Walks Back Extreme Global Warming Coral Extinction Claims
Eric Worrall
Peter Ridd is right – the Great Barrier Reef is not in immediate danger of dying. James Cook University, Peter Ridd’s adversary in his unfair dismissal court case, has just…

 

Shoddy work was exposed by Professor Ridd.
All reefs look dead from a plane — Great Barrier Reef still alive underwater
Can you spot a dead coral from 120 meters in the air?
The media and academic experts keep telling us the reef is dead. Jen Marohasy points out that the death of the Great Barrier Reef was diagnosed from the sky, so she had the radical idea of going out to reefs like Pixie reef to photograph it underwater instead. She didn’t receive any of the $440m Malcolm Turnbull sent to save the reef. But strangely, none of those millions appears to be used to do something as banal as a swimming near a coral. In an earlier post she described how many of the corals grow in vertical walls, which are very difficult to spot from a plane. Now she’s demonstrating how hard it is to spot even obvious things from a plane. . . .

 

The end is near.

Finale’ – Peter Ridd vs. James Cook University
Anthony Watts
Dr. Peter Ridd writes on Facebook: We just got notification that the High Court appeal hearing will be by the Full Court at 10:00am on Wednesday, 23 June 2021 in…

 

More integrity issues at JCU.

Ocean Acidification Effects Research in Doubt
Kip Hansen
“Munday’s and Dixson’s data on chemical signal preference had a “0 out of 10,000” chance of being real. They left it to the reader to decide what to think about…

 

I'm sceptical of Jack Hays.
However if you need some cherries picked he's your man.

 

ITS A BLOG!

And did you perchance look at the date?

 

Yep! Could manage several farms by himself!

 

15 June 2021.

 

Awwww! You quoted

Awwww! You quoted Joannenova! How sweet!

 

And they are talking about one event in 2016 - been more since then

 

Try reading before posting. The discussion is about the recovery (by 2021) from the 2016 bleaching event.

 

Joanne Nova is a crackpot.

 

Coral Reefs can recover from bleaching. From what I have read that takes about 10 years for them to fully recover. As ocean temperatures become warmer, there will
be more and more bleaching episodes and at some point, existing coral reefs will not be able to survive. A GMST rise of 2 degrees C. above mid 19th century GMST is about all the warming they will be able to take. Plus there is the
problem of ocean acidification.

 

The facts are nonetheless the facts.

 

Took five years, as noted, and acidification is a non-problem.

 

The members of the 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS 2021) do not agree ...

 

Which was 5 years ago now

 

Of course not.

 

Not if they are cherry picked and distorted

 

And the recovery was documented in 2021.