Posts by: Rachael Middlebrook

According to "The Science and Public Policy Insitute", the future of reefs couldn't look any better

By On January 14, 2009 · 5 Comments

From the organization that brought you:

“35 Inconvenient Truths: The errors in Al Gore’s movie” “Proved -There is no climate crisis” “Greenhouse Warming? What Greenhouse Warming?”

comes another ‘bona fide’ report ( “CO2, Global Warming and Coral Reefs: Prospects for the Future“)  aimed at debunking the widely respected view among the scientific community [...]

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Update on sea surface temperatures and the Great Barrier Reef

By On December 16, 2008 · 1 Comment

The sea surface temperature (SST) model forecast (NOAA) for the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is predicting widespread bleaching, with severe scenarios predicted to affect the northern GBR from mid January 2009. Predictions for the month of December suggests that the potential for bleaching from central GBR intensifying to the north will extend into 2009.  [...]

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Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority predicting widespread coral bleaching during the summer

By On December 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Using an experimental algorithm developed from satellite monitoring of sea surface temperatures, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are able to predict (often with some accuracy) the coral bleaching outlook for the upcoming season (for more information on the model itself, see this link).The forecast for [...]

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