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Great Barrier Reef Has Worst Coral Die-Off Ever, Report Finds (usatoday.com)
Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered from its worst coral die-off ever recorded, according to a new study from the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies based at James Cook University. "Stress from the unusually warm ocean water heated by man-made climate change and the natural El Nino climate pattern caused the die-off," reports USA Today. At more than 1,400 miles long, Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef and the planet's biggest structure made by living organisms. In the northernmost section of the reef, which had been considered the most "pristine," some 67% of the coral died. The good news, scientists said, was that central and southern sections of the reef fared far better, with "only" 6% and 1% of the coral dead, respectively. Coral reefs result from the work of little polyps, creatures only a few millimeters long, budded on top of one another. Over centuries, the shells of these creatures combine to form the exotic shapes of coral reefs. Tiny differences in the anatomy of each polyp species affect the shape of their shells and produce the exotic shapes of each reef. The vibrant colors that draw thousands of tourists to the Great Barrier Reef each year come from algae that live in the corals tissue. When water temperatures become too high, coral becomes stressed and expels the algae, which leave the coral a bleached white color. Mass coral bleaching is a new phenomenon and was never observed before the 1980s as global warming ramped up. Besides their beauty, reefs shelter land from storms, and are also a habitat for myriads of species.
Oh so you're the consumerist Geek who is not that smart. Otracised by normal people because you are ugly, uncoordinated and weird.
Your kind is meant to be addicted to gaming. Get off this site.
It was obviously some other country that caused this - maybe the Philippines, haven't they been hard on their coral reefs with fishing or blasting or something? They're a lot closer to the Great Barrier Reef than the US, or even China, much more likely some spillover from the Philippines. Not our problem, clean up your own backyard before you come crying to us with wild theories.
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i.e. you've been led to believe there was a scientific consensus on global cooling due to falling temperatures in the 50s,60s and 70s, and you were likely shown fake Time magazine covers to illustrate this, and thus you are supposed to ignore the scientific consensus on global warming.
I wasn't "led to believe" anything, you arrogant putz.
I've been alive since the mid-'50s and YES, we were all warned about the coming ice age and snowball-Earth and all the rest of the crap through the '60s and '70s. Same alarmism as today, complete with scientists warning that "action must be taken *now*!".
And the solutions were the same...stop living a modern lifestyle and enjoying a minimum standard of living, and GIB US MOAR MONEH!!!
I guess they figure most of us folks who remember their failed scam must be dead by now so they can try to jiggle things about a bit and try the nearly-exact same scam again. Only this time it's going to get too warm instead of too cold.
The difference this time is by having nearly destroyed the public education system they've largely succeeded in dumbing-down enough people sufficiently to believe their horseshit.
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.