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Related: About this forum93 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
Australias 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 reefs 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
TIME TO PANIC
(1,894 posts)1. Terrifying! n/t
cprise
(8,445 posts)2. Australians: "LA LA LA! Don't Care!"
My Rupert Murdoch rag says I should upgrade to an SUV, and Julia Gillard is the devil!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1127100175#post6
Nitram
(22,813 posts)3. A bit misleading. 93% of reefs had "some" bleaching.
93% of the Great Barrier reef is not bleached.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)4. True...they should have used "...is bleaching"
Nihil
(13,508 posts)5. And, to celebrate this milestone, ...
... 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 ...