A Queensland climate change scientist says the world has only another decade to reduce greenhouse gasses to save the Great Barrier Reef.
The director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, Professor Ove Hoegh Guldberg, is addressing a climate change conference in Cairns in the far north today.
Professor Hoegh says coral bleaching events are becoming more frequent because of rising sea temperatures and levels.
He says good management and the low population along the Great Barrier Reef have helped it bounce back in the past, but it could be gone in 40 years if carbon emissions are not reduced.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
Google Search
-
Recent Posts
- Making Themselves Irrelevant
- Michael Mann Predicts The Demise Of X
- COP29 Preview
- UK Labour To Save The Planet
- A Giant Eyesore
- CO2 To Destroy The World In Ten Years
- Rats Jumping Off The Climate Ship
- UK Labour To Save The Planet
- “False Claims” And Outright Lies”
- Michael Mann Cancelled By CNN
- Spoiled Children
- Great Lakes Storm Of November 11, 1835
- Harris To Win Iowa
- Angry Democrats
- November 9, 1913 Storm
- Science Magazine Explains Trump Supporters
- Obliterating Bill Gates
- Scientific American Editor In Chief Speaks Out
- The End Of Everything
- Harris To Win In A Blowout
- Election Results
- “Glaciers, Icebergs Melt As World Gets Warmer”
- “falsely labeling”
- Vote For Change By Electing The Incumbent
- Protesting Too Much Snow
Recent Comments
- stewartpid on COP29 Preview
- GeologyJim on A Giant Eyesore
- GeologyJim on COP29 Preview
- GeologyJim on COP29 Preview
- arn on Making Themselves Irrelevant
- Richard E Fritz on Michael Mann Predicts The Demise Of X
- William on A Giant Eyesore
- arn on Michael Mann Predicts The Demise Of X
- Gordon Vigurs on COP29 Preview
- Peter Carroll on Michael Mann Predicts The Demise Of X
Prof Ove doesn’t know even Oz research on this topic. Work at AIMS in Townsville has shown pretty conclusively that when the temperature goes up all the corals do is spit out the alga that doesn’t like that temperature and gets in a new one. They go white during the changeover.
It’s called bleaching, and it’s perfectly normal………..
cold is worse
Research shows that deep inside the corals there is life waiting to bounce back when sea temperature cools.
Great Barrier Reef booms after extensive bleaching event!
[peer reviewed]
By the way Latitude, coral bleaching can also be caused by low sea water temperature.
http://resources.metapress.com/pdf-preview.axd?code=39qn9c5ntlr25d9e&size=largest
Your : Director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, Professor Ove Hoegh Guldberg, is the original little boy who calls wolf.
His dire reef destruction warnings include:
(a) Starfish
(b) Global warming,
(c) Global cooling,
(d) sugar cane effluent run off
(e) over fishing
(f) Sea lanes too close to reef
(g) Over tourism
(h) Bleaching by CO2
(j) Bleaching by other acidic influences
(k) Sea level rise
(M) Sea level drop
(n) Arguments with Andrew Bolt.
Remarkably the reef has managed to exist for over 100,000 years.
Other experts such as reef naturalist Ben Cropp have seen no problems with the reef for over 40 years
Much to the good professors indignation the reef seems to survive all his prognostications
You’ll have to wait for the next installment of (n)…AB ran out of time this morning. Hopefully Dr Ove will front up on the radio with Bolta tomorrow morning, though if I were Dr Ove I’d wonder at my own sanity at agreeing to do the spot.
The question needing asking is:
Why did corals evolve to have a mechanism to deal with warming….
…if they didn’t need it
Non existent bleaching is being caused by a non existent rise is sea water temperatures. One of the great scientific discoveries of the 21st Century!
You are all ignorant couch researchers.