• Australia's Great Barrier Reef hit by 'worst' bleaching
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[I]via: BBC[/I] [quote]The National Coral Bleaching Taskforce says 95% of reefs from Cairns to Papua New Guinea are now severely bleached. It says only four reefs out of 520 have no evidence of bleaching. Unesco voted not to put the reef on its World Heritage in Danger list last year, but green groups want the decision reassessed. Coral taskforce convener Prof Terry Hughes told the BBC his team was yet to find the southern border where the bleaching ended. "Tomorrow we will continue further south from Cairns to Townsville about 400km (250 miles) and spend the day scoring another 150 reefs," he said.[/quote] [URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-35914009"]Source[/URL]
It may be game over before we know it.
We are the sixth extinction.
i was looking forward to seeing the great barrier reef someday, but it seems like it's going to just be straight up gone soon
This is fucking terrible.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knSGD0JqGuk[/media]
All sounds like too little too late. We've really fucked up.
sounds like in order to help the planet we might have to create a lot of artificial ecosystems.
I fucking cant.. The things the human race do to the world pretty much stays on my mind ALL OF THE TIME. Sometimes I feel like I was born just in time to watch it all die, and that there's not a damn thing I can do about it. Pardon my venting.
[QUOTE=Callinstead;50030914]I fucking cant.. The things the human race do to the world pretty much stays on my mind ALL OF THE TIME. Sometimes I feel like I was born just in time to watch it all die, and that there's not a damn thing I can do about it. Pardon my venting.[/QUOTE] well at least you'll be around for the advent of vr waifus
On the bright side, it will make an excellent Great Skeleton Graveyard for our future children.
And can you imagine that the issue of climate change is still not talked about to any degree in the Republican primaries? - We need to put aside playing up to the corporates for fossil fuel before it's too late. So sad that this is happening now. We have managed to change the immoral crony ways of corporations before, and I believe we can do it again.
[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;50030974]On the bright side, it will make an excellent Great Skeleton Graveyard for our future children.[/QUOTE] Nope, coral decays. Well, at least we got some images of it while it lasted. Human race isn't gonna change, we'll just keep on doing what we do. Best look at it while you can...
All the more reason to continue my career prospect in the R&D of space structures. Goodbye earthlings.
Massive bleaching happens about every 30 years, and its not very documented we are over reacting.
[QUOTE=Evanstr;50032087]Massive bleaching happens about every 30 years, and its not very documented we are over reacting.[/QUOTE] This is the worst coral bleaching event on record. It is estimated that 95% of the northern reefs have been bleached and that half the coral could die off in the next month. The coral that survives will take decades to recover but if it continues to suffer this kind of abuse it will die. One of the main causes of this is the increase in water temperature which can be attributed to climate change. Meaning that this was all preventable but now we've severely fucked up and people like you who just pass it off as an overreaction are the reason nothing is being done about climate change. I don't see how people are overreacting. Your apathetic view of the situation is the kind of thinking that caused this whole mess in the first place and what will lead to future travesties.
They say 95% of coral reefs have been bleached ( they mean have signs of bleaching) they are not 95% gone, its just 95% have been affected a bit.
[QUOTE=Evanstr;50032151]They say 95% of coral reefs have been bleached ( they mean have signs of bleaching) they are not 95% gone, its just 95% have been affected a bit.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=BBC]The National Coral Bleaching Taskforce says 95% of reefs from Cairns to Papua New Guinea are now [B]severely[/B] bleached.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Evanstr;50032087]Massive bleaching happens about every 30 years, and its not very documented we are over reacting.[/QUOTE] What a destructive attitude
[QUOTE=Evanstr;50032151]They say 95% of coral reefs have been bleached ( they mean have signs of bleaching) they are not 95% gone, its just 95% have been affected a bit.[/QUOTE] It also says in the article almost 50% of it is dead though. That's kind of a big deal. It's not going to resurrect itself.
[QUOTE=Evanstr;50032087]Massive bleaching happens about every 30 years, and its not very documented we are over reacting.[/QUOTE] Results of humans overreacting: We improve our impact on the world and reduce pollution, but it wasn't [I]that[/I] necessary. Results of humans underreacting: We make the planet uninhabitable.
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