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Gazette Day reports:
In the year 2016, there was a heatwave that affected many parts of the world. The extreme temperatures were especially felt in and around the continent of Australia. As a result of the heatwave, the waters around the Great Barrier Reef warmed considerably. Scientists were worried that with the oceans already warming due to global climate change, the additional heat stress might cause considerable damage to the Great Barrier Reef.
After the heatwave subsided, a team of scientists conducted tests to find out how the heatwave damaged the reef. Extensive aerial surveys were conducted. These surveys concluded that a great deal of the reef had bleaching that had killed off many parts of the reef. [...] The surveys found that 90 percent of the corals in the reef suffered at least some type of bleaching. The worst damage was on the northernmost third of the reef. In this section, much of the damage was caused by the initial rise in temperature.
The other damage occurred later. The coral reefs depend on a symbiotic relationship with a certain type of algae. Over the course of a few months after the heating event, the algae separated from the reef causing additional reef death.
During the heating event in 2016, one-third of the coral reefs in the world were bleached and damaged in some way. The reefs do have the ability to come back from this [heat-induced damage] as long as the damaging events are not too frequent.
Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0041-2) (DX)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 25 2018, @05:05PM (15 children)
Why, yes. Absolutely. You simply do not get to make claims that you cannot point to supporting data about in science.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Wednesday April 25 2018, @05:28PM (2 children)
Point is, there are some findings that are so well established they don't require citation. For instance, if I employ "F=ma" in a physics paper, nobody's going to complain that I didn't go through in-depth data and research to prove it.
My guess is that the effects of overheating on coral is quite well established, which isn't a surprising finding because all animals that get too hot have bad things happen to them.
What you're really saying, I'm reasonably certain, is "I don't believe the Earth is getting warmer, so therefor I'm going to doubt any research that could possibly imply that I'm wrong." Which is a fundamentally anti-scientific position, and you know it.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 25 2018, @05:36PM
That's why I always simmer my coral, and never boil it. And, never put it in the microwave!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 25 2018, @05:58PM
And that one is plainly not. Anyone who even sort of paid attention in highschool can cite "F=ma" or "E=mc2" but this is nowhere near that sort of notoriety.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @05:36PM (7 children)
Ahh yes, the might Libertarian in his native habitat of narcissistic denial. Bullshit claims you make don't require any evidence because "if you need lots of words to explain something it is probably bullshit - TMB" but anything even tangentially touching sensitive topics like climate change require ten copies of the data signed in triplicate and buried in soft peat for five years. The Mighty Buzztard hard at work today!!
* if you wouldn't be so pushy about your own shaky opinions and state things more reasonably then we might have nice discussions. Use hyperbole and bad logic to support a sweeping judgmental statement and prepare to receive the same.
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 25 2018, @05:59PM (2 children)
Denial? This is pedantry, thank you very much.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @09:46PM (1 child)
Le sigh, the denial aspect comes from having a bias towards a certain position and going through ridiculous leaps of logic to deny anything that contradicts your assumption. Heat wave hits in 2016, no other obvious cause for coral die off, coral biology well understood to be sensitive to environmental conditions such as heat and CO2 concentrations.
More brazen confidence in your ability to deflect and deny. Nowadays anyone who displays the same type of confident bullshitting I label as an educated idiot best ignored. Often such people have a core foundation of very basic and often flawed concepts, and they build from there.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 25 2018, @11:28PM
My bias about temperature affecting coral does not lean the way you think. I in fact very strongly suspect it does. That is irrelevant to whether a claim has been supported or not though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 25 2018, @08:34PM (3 children)
The worst part is the dumb beaky bastard projects like a mile of movie theaters. I've rarely seen anyone so "driven by feelz" as he himself accuses others of being. And bare assumptions? The inside of his head has to register as a brothel, it's got so many bare naked assumptions in it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 25 2018, @09:12PM (2 children)
Oh there's plenty of naked in it but very few assumptions left.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @10:04PM (1 child)
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TMB has no assumptions everybody! Don't mind the million times he's had good evidence refute his statements, he is a purely logical fact-driven MACHINE! Much wow, so amazeballs.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 25 2018, @11:30PM
Oh I have some left. Just not many that can be replaced by certainty. I actively check things like that as I go through life.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Troll) by aristarchus on Wednesday April 25 2018, @11:43PM (3 children)
Oh dear! The Micturating Blowhard is at it again, censoring Soylentils with mad abandon? Oh, the humanity!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 25 2018, @11:47PM (2 children)
The Greeks are famous for two things: philosophy and butt sex. The more you type, the more convinced I am that you should stick to butt sex.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday April 26 2018, @12:22AM (1 child)
Alas, TMB manages nothing but a Runaway retort! What sad times and poor education we have here on the SoylentNews!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 26 2018, @11:09AM
If you're going to spurn perfectly good butt sex as well as reason, there's really no point in talking to you; you're obviously insane.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.