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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: 1) by khallow on Wednesday April 25 2018, @11:40PM (5 children)
And you still haven't had a good reason.
(Score: 2, Redundant) by aristarchus on Thursday April 26 2018, @12:25AM
Use? khallow, you are incapable of even recognizing either of these things! So the ball is now firmly stuck to you, like a Anthropogenic Global Climate Warming Tarbaby.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2018, @03:18AM (3 children)
Reason and superior intellect? You realize I had to resort to 2nd grade tactics so you'd understand what I was getting at right?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 26 2018, @07:29AM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @02:59AM (1 child)
Sounds pretty whiny to me. "Waah waaaah they didn't include info from high school bio up to graduate level marine biology waaaaah." Pretty fucking whiny guy, no amount of projection is going to cure your brainwashing.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday April 27 2018, @08:11AM
How much of that "thirty years worth of research on coral bleaching and temperature effects" have you bothered to read? None right? When someone invokes a huge mass of literature in which, somewhere the answer allegedly lies, and which they haven't themselves bothered to peruse, then that's an argument from obfuscation fallacy. You're hiding your lack of answer in a pile of work.
My view on this is TMB had a point which has been roundly ignored by half a dozen posters. Science is precisely the place where one doesn't assert things without any sort of support. This journalist has been playing games with us.