Despite global warming the Barrier Reef is At Record Highs \ stacker news ~bitcoin

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In the central reef, the declines seen in 2012 and 2016 were due to natural events, namely Cyclone Yasi in 2012 and El Niño in 2016

Levels of coral cover in the northern and central areas of the reef were at their highest levels over the past 36 years of monitoring.

This notion that global warming will cause corals to die is very untrue

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115 sats \ 0 replies \ @KingZing 7 Aug 2022

Pretty sure someone mentioned diversity is way down and this particular easy to grow and die type is bad news

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 7 Aug 2022

Have you actually read the report?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zuspotirko 7 Aug 2022

I have seen bleached, dead coral reefs with my own eyes. It's a horrific site and very sad what humans have done to Gods creation. I can't say how statistically widespread it is, maybe some species can move to places that were a few degrees cooler before. But overall this cannot be a good thing.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @2big2fail OP 7 Aug 2022

In 2022, widespread recovery has led to the highest coral cover recorded by the LTMP in the Northern and Central GBR, largely due to increases in the fast-growing Acropora corals, which are the dominant group of corals on the GBR and have been largely responsible previous changes in hard coral cover.