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- Reflections on Claims about Coral Cover (Part 1) one day agoIn fact, the method used to survey the corals makes it impossible to determine whether the loss is statistically significance or not, and the surveys were only of the reef perimeters, specifically avoiding habitats with higher...
- Latest Survey of ‘Coral Cover’ Fundamentally Unscientific Thu, 11 Aug 22, 7:00amThe relatively low percentage cover is because only the reef perimeter is surveyed by AIMS, which is the equivalent of reporting on the population of Sydney after skirting around the outer suburbs.
- Good news about coral reefs – they recovered from warming Mon, 8 Apr 13, 3:43amBack in 1998, when we had the super El Niño, some of the warm water pooled east and west of Australia (seen in the 1998 image below) and damaged coral reefs there, setting off a cottage industry for noisy alarmy/worry …...
- Reef Alarmists Jump The Shark Wed, 10 Oct 12, 1:40pmby Walter Starck (with thanks to Dr. Bob Carter) The Great Barrier Reef is doomed again. A recent widely publicised scientific study reports the dramatic finding that it has lost half its coral in the last 27 years. Forty-eight...
- Report Finds That the Great Barrier Reef Has Lost 50% of its Coral Over the Past 27 Years Tue, 2 Oct 12, 11:49pmAn alarming new study by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) shows that the Great Barrier Reef has lost 50% of its coral cover over the past 27 years...
- Report Finds The Great Barrier Reef Has Lost 50% Of Its Coral Over The Past 27 Years Tue, 2 Oct 12, 11:49pmThe Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) has reported that the Great Barrier Reef has lost 50% of its coral cover over the past 27 years. The scientific group have attributed the loss to storm damage (48%), the growth...
- Stanford University Study finds that Global Ecosystems Being Permanently Damaged By Mankind Tue, 22 May 12, 3:20amA team from Stanford University have released a report that states ecological chains worldwide are being damaged by human influence. Mankind’s impact on the natural world is a subject of constant debate and controversy....
- The fishes and the coral live happily in the CO2 bubble plume Thu, 29 Dec 11, 4:39amGuest post by David Archibald Willis Eschenbach’s post on lab work on coral response to elevated carbon dioxide levels, and The Reef Abides, leads to a large scale, natural experiment in Papua New Guinea...
- Scientists Planning to Cryo-Freeze Coral Samples to Preserve Endangered Species Tue, 29 Nov 11, 8:55amThe Svalbard Global Seed Vault, located on Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, is a vast underground cavern that holds almost every type of seed in the world...
- Coral bleaching on the GBR – no evidence of net decline Sat, 2 Jul 11, 1:45pmFrom Andrew Bolt at Australia’s Herald Sun below, some sharp evidence in a new paper that the “coral bleaching” scare of the Great Barrier Reef is unfounded and mostly made up...