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posted by takyon on Wednesday April 25 2018, @02:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the going,-going,... dept.

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)


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  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday April 25 2018, @06:03PM (6 children)

    by captain normal (2205) on Wednesday April 25 2018, @06:03PM (#671743)

    Come on Buzzy...you are supposed to be an editor. The Gazette article was merely a report on the study published in Nature (which I do not have access to). The Abstract actually hints at this: "... corals began to die immediately on reefs where the accumulated heat exposure exceeded a critical threshold ..."
    You should not be so quick to jump to confusions merely because what you think you are reading does not conform to what you believe.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by captain normal on Wednesday April 25 2018, @06:13PM

    by captain normal (2205) on Wednesday April 25 2018, @06:13PM (#671754)

    Missed a link in TFA, which apparently you did not read (maybe because you have a hard on to rag on Original Owner):
    " Many corals — especially those in the northern third of the reef — died immediately from heat stress."
    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04660-w [nature.com]

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 25 2018, @06:51PM (4 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday April 25 2018, @06:51PM (#671782) Homepage Journal

    Come on Buzzy...you are supposed to be an editor.

    The hell you say. I'm a code monkey and, when it can't be avoided, an admin.

    So shoddy journalism instead of shoddy science? Okay, I'm with you now.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @10:06PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @10:06PM (#671901)

      No, shoddy criticism. Own up to your shit and do some soul searching as to why you chose a bad nit to pick.

    • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday April 26 2018, @08:11AM (1 child)

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday April 26 2018, @08:11AM (#672072) Homepage Journal

      It's too bad you're not an editor. Because you're very smart. You saw that this story is bullshit. Fake News. I see that. So many folks see that. But the editors didn't see that.

      We should be focused on clean and beautiful air, not expensive and business closing global warming. A total hoax! They changed the name to "climate change" because it got too cold. By the way, we may have a climate change problem, but it will be of the nuclear variety.