While the adult form of coral is anchored in place, every year corals spawn uncountable billions of highly mobile larvae which colonise favourable sites. Any damaged reef is instantly colonised by adjacent reefs as soon as favourable conditions return.
During the rapid warming which occurred after the end of the ice age, the sea level rose at an astounding 3ft / 1m per century – sometimes even faster, up to 2.5m / century. The Great Barrier Reef used to be much further out to sea, but as the sea level rose, the reef simply moved, as coral spawn rapidly colonised favourable locations on the newly flooded coastal land. Uncomfortable fact the chicken littles out there hate to recognize.
Modern global warming and sea level rise pose no threat to Australian coral.
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So resilient in fact, that it will start growing inside your body if not removed.
ReplyDeleteYes, lots of the coral died off.
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What the 'scientists' don't tell us is that each type of coral, like bamboos, have a cyclical die-off. Sometimes it is measured in years, decades, centuries, millenia.
So, yes, at one time there was massive die-offs. It was the Venn diagram of all the coral death cycles.
But...
That's what it was, cyclical die offs of sections of the reefs around the world.
Funny story, about 10 years ago (maybe sooner or later, can't remember) the newly minted Minister for the Great Barrier Reef, full of greenie vim and environmentalist vigor, told her staff to arrange a tour of the whole reef. Her staff prevaricated, waffled, vaccilated and didn't schedule it. So she went by herself and the general response by actual locals was, "What evil manmade die-off?"
You are completely wrong.
ReplyDeleteTyphoons cause the most damage to the Great Barrier Reef.
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