German language RTV here reports: All the talk in the media of a dying Great Barrier coral reef near Australia is “a media swindle”.
The facts: Record numbers of coral reefs were already measured in 2024, and the coverage has indeed tripled over the last 12 years. [emphasis, links added]
According to RTV, “…coral bleaching due to high water temperatures has been proven to be a lie,” and [the recent reef damage attributed to climate change has a different cause. The reef has recovered.]
According to Report 24, all the media claims made on a yearly basis, e.g., The Guardian and CBS, of the Great Barrier Reef near Australia dying at a record speed and being irreversible is “a fairy tale” and “false, misleading or simply a lie.”
Report 24 writes that the damage to the reef was caused by a tropical cyclone that moved across the reef in 2009 and caused immense damage.
A study by the Australian Institute of Marine Science summarized the damage that included exfoliation and scouring, which removes all living tissue from the corals, and coral breakage, where massive coral heads and fragile branching corals broke off.
It had nothing to do with CO2 and climate change.
Moreover, according to scientists, coral bleaching is by no means a sign of a dying reef and does not produce a white, dead coral lump like the ones you can buy in a souvenir shop on the beach.
Instead, bleaching means that the coral has lost the algae living in it, usually due to various stress factors such as fluctuations in light or changes in water temperature.
This causes the living coral to turn white but not necessarily die.
Report 24 adds that occurrences of coral bleaching could become even more frequent due to the record growth of recent years.
The dying reef narrative began 12 years ago when the reef was severely damaged by a cyclone, with up to 85% of the coral cover gone.
At the time, real scientists stated that recovery could take up to 15 years, and this is exactly what has since happened.
The reef has not only recovered but also continued to expand.
Read more at No Tricks Zone
Whole swag of excellent Prof Peter Ridd coral reef videos, via his “Reef Rebels” website, see: https://www.youtube.com/@reefrebels;
for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3-hJPO3h4 , and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPFkg5gcuSs&t=27s ,
etc …
If anyone wants to know about Australia’s Great Barrier Reef from a man who knows – that man is Professor Peter Ridd. He was sacked from the University of Queensland where he worked as a Marine Biologist, because he dared to speak the truth.
I remember reading articles by Dr Ridd and then what the Queensland University set out to destroy his career.
The “Reef” is 1,500 miles north to south, and in parts up to 30 miles wide. Local environmental conditions vary from one point to another. Reports on ‘conditions’ will vary depending on just where and when surveys are done. It’s ‘sort-of’ like comparing the coastal stretch of California and Oregon combined and basing the ‘result’ on conditions at just Morro Bay.