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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 11:42 AM Apr 2016

93 percent of the Great Barrier Reef now bleached

Another tipping point being past.
I fear for future generations like my grandkids.


‘And then we wept': Scientists say 93 percent of the Great Barrier Reef now bleached

Australia’s National Coral Bleaching Task Force has surveyed 911 coral reefs by air, and found at least some bleaching on 93 percent of them. The amount of damage varies from severe to light, but the bleaching was the worst in the reef’s remote northern sector — where virtually no reefs escaped it.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/04/20/and-then-we-wept-scientists-say-93-percent-of-the-great-barrier-reef-now-bleached/
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93 percent of the Great Barrier Reef now bleached (Original Post) SHRED Apr 2016 OP
Terrifying! n/t TIME TO PANIC Apr 2016 #1
Australians: "LA LA LA! Don't Care!" cprise Apr 2016 #2
A bit misleading. 93% of reefs had "some" bleaching. Nitram Apr 2016 #3
True...they should have used "...is bleaching" SHRED Apr 2016 #4
And, to celebrate this milestone, ... Nihil Apr 2016 #5

Nitram

(22,813 posts)
3. A bit misleading. 93% of reefs had "some" bleaching.
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 03:33 PM
Apr 2016

93% of the Great Barrier reef is not bleached.

 

Nihil

(13,508 posts)
5. And, to celebrate this milestone, ...
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 07:41 AM
Apr 2016

... they want to build yet another totally unnecessary coal-fired power station ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1127100175

What a bunch of shit-for-brains capitalist Rapture-freaks ...


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