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- What climate disaster? The Great Barrier Reef has more coral growing on it than ever recorded Sat, 24 Jul 21, 3:52amThe coral cover as sampled by AIMS across the entire Great Barrier Reef is not just good, but better than it has ever been in the 36 years they have been studying it...
- Corals bleached in 1862 by all the cars and coal plants that didn’t exist Wed, 30 Jun 21, 1:21amPeter Ridd writes that a new paper uncovers rare lithographs of corals underwater in 1862.
- Using “Enviromentalism” and the UN as a trade weapon: China fires fake “Reef Scare” missile Tue, 22 Jun 21, 3:52amFlynn Reef, Queensland, Photo by Wise Hok Wai Lum Ever since Australia asked for an investigation into the source of Covid, China has been accidentally-on-purpose sticking pins into our trade deals...
- All reefs look dead from a plane — Great Barrier Reef still alive underwater Wed, 10 Mar 21, 4:01pmCan you spot a dead coral from 120 meters in the air? The media and academic experts keep telling us the reef is dead. Jen Marohasy points out that the death of the Great Barrier Reef was diagnosed from the sky, so she had...
- Measuring Old Corals & Coral Reefs (Part 2) Fri, 22 Jan 21, 1:00pmOnce upon a time, the scientists drilled into the corals and extracted a core from which they created a slither. Then, under x-ray, they counted the annual bands with the varying lengths and thicknesses of each band being...
- Yet more footage of Great Barrier dying reef not dying Thu, 1 Oct 20, 3:57pmJen Marohasy went hunting for bleached coral: What is the true state of the Great Barrier Reef? … In January 2020, Emmy Award winning cameraman Clint Hempsall, and IPA Senior Fellow Jennifer Marohasy decided to find...
- Exact climate data from the past Wed, 12 Aug 20, 7:00pmCorals precipitate their calcareous skeletons (calcium carbonate) from seawater. Over thousands of years, vast coral reefs form due to the deposition of this calcium carbonate. During precipitation, corals prefer carbonate...
- HKU marine biologist and international team unveil impacts of heatwave on reef fishes Tue, 24 Mar 20, 4:00amThe University of Hong Kong The marine heatwave of 2016 was one of longest and hottest thermal anomalies recorded on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, influencing multiple species of marine ectotherms, including coral...
- Scandalously Bad Science – No Data on Coral Growth Rates for 15 Years Fri, 3 Jan 20, 5:00amReposed by request from Jennifer Marohasy’s Blog January 2, 2020 By jennifer CORALS are animals, closely related to jelly fish, but they differ in having a limestone skeleton...
- Great Barrier Reef lives, misrepresents The Guardian and Expert who said corals were dead Fri, 22 Nov 19, 5:13amStone Island is the reef that put Peter Ridd’s career on the road to the high court. Last week Jennifer Marohasy released a mini documentary showing corals around Stone Island that weren’t supposed to be there....
- According to Nature these corals do not exist Fri, 15 Nov 19, 4:06pmJennifer Marohasy dives on Beige Reef near Stone Island with Walter Stark, and Emmy Award winning cinematographer Clint Hempsall.
- Coral reef totally recovers (for 400th time) and researchers surprised Tue, 2 Jul 19, 12:34pmIf only coral researchers read skeptic blogs, they’d know that corals have been getting bleached and wrecked by cyclones for millions of years. They have adaptable genes, honed by 500 million years of natural selection,...
- Corals use epigenetic tricks to adapt to warmer and “more acidic” water Tue, 12 Jun 18, 2:44pm… After half a billion million years of climate change, I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that life on Earth (and specifically corals) have so many ways to cope with the climate changing. After all, it’s...
- Corals already have the genes to survive another 250 years of climate change Mon, 23 Apr 18, 8:16pm… A new paper finds that there is already enough genetic variety spread across the Great Barrier Reef to adapt to the imagined “unprecedented” warming coming in the next two centuries...
- Thin sunscreen layer to *save reef from bleaching* for first time in twenty million years Tue, 27 Mar 18, 8:37pm… Scientists are suggesting that a thin layer of floating calcium carbonate can cut sunlight over reefs by 30% and save some high value reefs from bleaching...