Great Barrier Reef headed for ‘massive death’
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Great Barrier Reef headed for ‘massive death’
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#3Well, we’ve just had another “coup” here in Australia... our 6th Prime Minister in 10 years, so yeah there’s definitely a steady hand on the tiller of Australian climate policy...
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#4Interesting article, but man is there a ton of bloat on that page. I could feel my phone heating up in my hand.
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#5Well, we’ve just had another “coup” here in Australia... our 6th Prime Minister in 10 years, so yeah there’s definitely a steady hand on the tiller of Australian climate policy...
Yeah for peoples reference the new guy showed up to parliament with a lump of coal and yelled “don’t be afraid of coal!”.
Looks like Australia will have a 45% renewable target in the next 6 months.
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#6We're going on holiday to the Great Barrier Reef in a few months. I think it's quite likely to be the first and last time I see it in any state worth visiting for many years.
Irrespective of how successful or unsuccessful the far-rights are in maintaining Australia's CO2 emission levels, I believe it's already too late - we've crossed from 'recovery is possible' to 'rebuilding is the only way' and that will take decades if not centuries.
/opinion
Re: Great Barrier Reef headed for ‘massive death’
#7We're going on holiday to the Great Barrier Reef in a few months. I think it's quite likely to be the first and last time I see it in any state worth visiting for many years. Irrespective of how successful or unsuccessful the far-rights are in maintaining Australia's CO2 emission levels, I believe it's already too late - we've crossed from 'recovery is possible' to 'rebuilding is the only way' and that will take deca…
As far as I understand it recovery was never possible by the time we realized what was happening. We have no good way to capture CO2 and no actionable way worldwide to reduce CO2 production fast enough. Even if we stopped producing CO2 right now the levels in the atmosphere would still continue to have detrimental effects for dozens of years.
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#8The sci-fi writer in me envisions a story about a future where humans exist, and there is only one species of fish in the ocean, and everyone is sick of eating it.
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#9Why are those guys in the videos touching and tugging on the coral?
Quite certain that's a no-no, and setting a terrible example for others.
For reference, see "Coral Etiquette" [0]:
Simply touching corals to see
what they feel like can cause
the death of an entire colony.
Oils from your skin can
disturb the delicate mucous
membranes which protect the
animals from disease.
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#10The actual title of the article is: Great Barrier Reef headed for ‘massive death’, and that's what the article is about. There are only cursory mentions of climate change in general.