As others in the blog world have picked up: four of Australia’s coalition MP’s raised doubts about the consensus that humans are causing climates change. Whilst this in itself is nothing new, the interesting aspect is their justification:
The four backbenchers have questioned the link between human activity and global warming, saying Mars, [...]
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The Sydney Morning Herald ran with an interesting article this morning on pesticide contamination on the GBR. The impacts of herbicides upon coral has been well documented – severely impacting upon developmental stages of coral larvae and actively impairing photosynthesis, resulting in coral bleaching.
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“Pesticides [...]
Below is an extract from The Age, with comments from Peter Garrett, the shadow minister for climate change, regarding the decline in coral cover on the GBR: (link to full article)
“The Great Barrier Reef is our greatest natural asset but the failure of the Howard government [...]
As I blogged earlier, the reefs off Okinawa are undergoing a severe bleaching event. The latest news from researchers in the region suggest that it may be worse than previously thought:
Coral bleaching is observed in Ishigaki Is. since late July. High SST(>30C) has continued around the southwest Ryukyu archipelago [...]
Mark Eakin from NOAA posted the following observations on coral list on the 31st July:
Following on to the increased potential for bleaching that we
reported two weeks ago, thermal stress has continued to increase in
the lower Florida Keys. This results from heating of the Florida Bay
waters [...]
From this morning’s Sydney Morning Herald
(Link to article, Link to WWF) :
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August 10th, 2007
AT LEAST $300 million needs to be spent urgently to clean up millions of tonnes of mud and chemical pollution pouring into the Great Barrier Reef every year, to boost the reef’s immunity to [...]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the most reliable consensus on the science of climate change – has released the full report of Working group II (Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability). The conclusions of this heavily reviewed and objective scientific consensus are that ‘Observational evidence from [...]
A new study released today by Bruno & Selig in PLoS Biology shows some very interesting trends in coral decline in the Indo-Pacific. In a nutshell:
Average coral cover is lower than expected (22.1%, 2003). Coral cover is surprisingly uniform across regions. Coral cover on the GBR (often considered one of the best managed [...]
Dr Pete Ridd has responded to my latest response to his comments. Given that he raises a few issues of fact, I think it is useful to explore his conjectures point by point in a final post. Some of these conjectures are easily dispelled which I think will be useful to the wider audience. I [...]
An interesting article from the Falkowski lab at Rutgers university has just been released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The authors extracted bacteria and DNA from ice between 3-5 metres beneath the surface of an Antarctic glacier, and ‘resuscitated’ a strain of bacteria [...]
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