August 04, 2022

Great Barrier Reef Just Fine

Scott Snell

Two years ago, widespread bleaching across the Great Barrier Reef caused numerous excitable types to declare that the unique natural wonder had died. This pronouncement occurred despite the protestations of reef experts that bleaching is normal. The tourist industry, which knew full well that most of the reef remained in good shape, was also pretty peeved. But nothing generates headlines like tragedy, so dissenting views were all but ignored.

No informed person was surprised to learn that news of the GBR's death had been greatly exaggerated, as the attached report shows.

https://www.aims.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-08/AIMS_LTMP_Report_on%20GBR_coral_status_2021_2022_040822F3.pdf

This is yet another example of so-called experts taking a little bit of data about a phenomenon, recorded over a short time frame, and then projecting out to infinity to reach the worst possible conclusion. Sometimes they mean well, but sometimes declaring a crisis is a cynical ploy to secure funding to study the alleged problem.

It is axiomatic that the many systems of the natural world are cyclical; up for a while, down for a while, always in flux. Examples of this are literally everywhere.

The GBR has been around for at least half a million years. It has survived warm periods and cold periods, thousands and thousands of hurricanes, and frequent large changes in sea level, including a 400-plus foot sea level rise at the beginning of the current interglacial period. For anyone familiar with earth history, the idea that this enormous, supremely resilient thing could be killed by a slight increase in temperature seems laughable.

Then again, I don't have a three-letter honorific after my name. So what the hell do I know?

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 10:27 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 Probably a lot. They too often amputate your common sense when they give you that three-letter honorific.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at August 05, 2022 09:21 PM (z7Oco)

2 That they do Dana. That little lettering means you are in the club, and to stay in the club's good graces you have to toe the line.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at August 06, 2022 09:05 AM (d5DIk)

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4 This shows that it can be done if the politicians ostensibly on our side will simply grow a pair and take a stand. Few do.

Posted by: Fake Watches at June 22, 2023 07:48 PM (0b23z)

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