Friday, April 22, 2016

RIP Great Barrier Reef


Bleaching in progress.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160420-coral-bleaching-australia-map-climate-change/

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/australias-great-barrier-reef-threatened-by-coral-bleaching-2016-04-21

https://www.climatecentral.org/news/greater-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-20267

1 comment:

Unknown said...

What is happening is bad enough but the Australian government has been, and may still be, pushing forward with plans for a new coal export port from which ships would cross part of the reef, so in addition to the GHGs, land damage from mining and ocean acidification + heating, there would potentially be direct physical damage to a part of the reef... I'd say unbelievable but this is politics.