After a trillion tons of CO2, the Great Barrier Reef hits record coral cover

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Last time something like this was claimed, it was by stretching a report of limited recovery over small sections into "fully recovered"!

Data or it isn't true. Didn't see any data here. So just another propaganda piece by the pollyanna crowd "there's nothing wrong with the planet, and folks should just quit complaining!"

Oh, here it is. The reefs continue to be in decline with no relief in sight. That 30% is what they've declined to. Not a recovery. Over two thirds destroyed. Periodic bleaching events continue to utterly demolish local ecosystems.

https://www.aims.gov.au/monitoring-great-barrier-reef/gbr-co...

The original post is saying (in antagonizing language) that 30% coral coverage is a record high.

If you click on the “download this report” button on the page you linked, Figures 2, 3, and 4 show graphs of coral coverage over time, support this claim. (In 1985 they were at around 30% coverage, not 100%.)

I have watched this dispute for many decades and the reality is that there is ebb and flow in the lifecycle of such things. The biggest problem is that people do not have sound memories of what has happened in the past.

The Great Barrier Reef is a good example of the dire calls about its impending destruction. As far as the [experts] of James Cook University are concerned, I have serious doubts as to the abilities of the researchers there. Far too much politicing going on.

Because it affects them more, the locals are more involved in caring for such without the interference of the [experts] who make their [expert] claims. The locals know just how silly many of these claims are and are now in the habit of not informing the [experts] so that the actual environments are protected.

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