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unhappycamper

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Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:36 AM Mar 2016

Climate change warnings for coral reef may have come to pass, scientists say

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/22/climate-change-warnings-coral-reef-great-barrier-reef-experts-projections-scientists



As coral bleaching threat is raised for Great Barrier Reef, experts say events on show that dire projections for reefs under global warming were not alarmist

Climate change warnings for coral reef may have come to pass, scientists say
Karl Mathiesen
Tuesday 22 March 2016 07.40 EDT

After almost two years of coral bleaching, with some reefs bleaching twice and possibly three times since 2014, scientists have said that dire predictions of global coral decline made almost two decades ago may now be manifest.

The rolling underwater heatwave has now arrived upon the Great Barrier Reef, with mass die-offs expected along the northern quarter of the world’s preeminent coral ecosystem.


Professor Nick Graham of Lancaster University said the devastation worldwide was probably now on the same scale as the worst ever bleaching on record, which occurred during 1997-98 and wiped out 16% of the world’s reefs in a single year.

“This is the big one that we’ve been waiting for. This is the 1997-98 equivalent, which we’ve been anticipating for a long time,” said the coral scientist. The full impact could not be known until the event had finally ended, added Graham. Models predict it will now head west into the Indian Ocean and could continue in the Pacific until early 2017.
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Climate change warnings for coral reef may have come to pass, scientists say (Original Post) unhappycamper Mar 2016 OP
Witnessing the death of our planet right before our eyes. mountain grammy Mar 2016 #1
And not a word from our MSM. Duppers Mar 2016 #2
Love the Guardian always! mountain grammy Mar 2016 #3
Well, i was wrong about not a word... Duppers Mar 2016 #4

Duppers

(28,094 posts)
2. And not a word from our MSM.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 01:34 PM
Mar 2016

I've lost friends because I've tried to awaken them the fuck up.

It's seems much of the developed world is in an "entertain me" mode.

Love the Guardian for publishing inconvenient truths.



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