IT hasn’t been the best start to the year for the global warming doom industry. Three consecutive “Beasts From The East” caused by super-cold Arctic air have resulted in 48,000 non-heat-related deaths in the UK alone, as the 2017/18 Northern Hemisphere mega-winter rages on well into spring.
THE ‘extreme’ cold has seen Iguanas frozen solid in Florida, alligators in a state of cryogenic freeze, sharks washed up in Cape Cod “stranded due to cold shock”, the coldest Super Bowl on record, Niagara Falls frozen over, a thermometer in the world’s coldest village breaking as temperatures plunge to -62C, the lowest temperature ever recorded in Bangladesh, frozen crops creating a food crisis in Europe, even a mass die-off of sea creatures as UK ocean temps plunged 1-3 degrees centigrade, cold temperatures smashed across Saskatchewan’s central and south regions in the spring of April, and the list of non-heat ‘extremes’ goes on.
RECORD cold temperatures have dumped unprecedented amounts of the white fluffy stuff that was, by now, meant to be “a very rare and exciting event,” something that “Children just aren’t going to know what (snow) is.”
Dr. Viner’s “thing of the past” covered all 50 states in North America, with rare falls experienced in Rome, Monaco, the Sahara desert, and the first snow in 50 years dusting Southern Morocco.
And, it’s been a rough old winter for Gavin Schmidt’s NASA GISS Temp New York office – home of the “Hottest Year(s) Evah” sausage factory – with the city that never sleeps experiencing its “fifth consecutive season that at least 30 inches of snow has fallen” with CNN reporting “It’s official: NYC hasn’t seen snow like this in 130 years!”
DON’T LOOK THERE, LOOK HERE!
IN what appears to be another well-timed, and well-orchestrated plan to thaw out the inconvenient noise of the brutal NH winter still raging deep into Spring, the mainstream media, in concert with the climate crisis industry, has wheeled out an old favourite that always guarantees a juicy headline and an eco-emotional response – The “Death” of The Great Barrier Reef…
A new study, published in Nature by serial reef alarmist Prof Terry Hughes, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, examines the link between the level of heat exposure from the 2015/16 super El Niño, “resulting in coral bleaching and ultimately coral death.“
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A TASTE of this morning’s mainstream media reef hysteria following the Hughes et al release:
Coral on the Great Barrier Reef was ‘cooked’ during 2016 marine heatwave, study finds – ABC News ABC
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WHAT SHORT MEMORIES WE THEY HAVE!
IN the era of the 24/7 news cycle, the mainstream media are acutely aware of how easy it is to con those who don’t follow closely the climate change debate.
Either that or their ‘journalists’ are flat-out naive themselves, devoid of simple fact-checking skills or illiterate of google search. The ‘con-job’ more likely, owing to the litany of propaganda and alarmism pumped out daily by the global warming theory-obsessed mainstream media.
NOT ONE of today’s GBR horror stories noted that only last September (2017), scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science surveyed 14 coral reefs between Cairns and Townsville to see how they fared after being bleached.
With great surprise, the warming extremists at the ABC published a piece by David Chen with the shock admission that “optimism is rising among scientists that parts of the Great Barrier Reef that were severely bleached over the past two years are making a recovery.”
SEPTEMBER 2017 :
Great Barrier Reef starts to recover after severe coral bleaching, a survey of sites between Cairns and Townsville shows – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
JUNE 2016 :
JUNE 2016 :
THIS report by The Australian is significant as it cites the chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Russell Reichelt, speaking out against intentionally bias claims of climate change induced destruction of the Great Barrier Reef:
Activist scientists and lobby groups have distorted surveys, maps and data to misrepresent the extent and impact of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, according to the chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Russell Reichelt.
A full survey of the reef released yesterday by the authority and the Australian Institute of Marine Science said 75 percent of the reef would escape unscathed.
Dr. Reichelt said the vast bulk of bleaching damage was confined to the far northern section off Cape York, which had the best prospect of recovery due to the lack of onshore development and high water quality.
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Dr. Reichelt said there had been a widespread misinterpretation of how much of the reef had died.
“We’ve seen headlines stating that 93 percent of the reef is practically dead,” he said.
“We’ve also seen reports that 35 percent, or even 50 percent, of the entire reef is now gone.
“However, based on our combined results so far, the overall mortality rate is 22 percent — and about 85 percent of that die-off has occurred in the far north between the tip of Cape York and just north of Lizard Island, 250km north of Cairns. Seventy-five percent of the reef will come out in a few months time as recovered.”
Former climate change commissioner Tim Flannery described diving on the Great Barrier Reef near Port Douglas recently as “one of the saddest days of my life”
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Dr. Reichelt said Dr. Flannery’s language had been “dramatic” and “theatrical” and his prognosis, although of concern, was “speculative”. Dr. Reichelt also rejected reports, based on leaked draft documents, that improving water quality would cost $16 billion.
Great Barrier Reef: scientists ‘exaggerated’ coral bleaching | The Australian
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REEFS RECOVER
DRAMATIC recovery of a remote reef off WA, after 1998 El Niño coral bleaching event:
From The Abstract :
Coral reef recovery from major disturbance is hypothesized to depend on the arrival of propagules from nearby undisturbed reefs. Therefore, reefs isolated by distance or current patterns are thought to be highly vulnerable to catastrophic disturbance. We found that on an isolated reef system in north Western Australia, coral cover increased from 9% to 44% within 12 years of a coral bleaching event, despite a 94% reduction in larval supply for 6 years after the bleaching. The initial increase in coral cover was the result of high rates of growth and survival of remnant colonies, followed by a rapid increase in juvenile recruitment as colonies matured. We show that isolated reefs can recover from major disturbance and that the benefits of their isolation from chronic anthropogenic pressures can outweigh the costs of limited connectivity.
Recovery of an Isolated Coral Reef System Following Severe Disturbance
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CORAL BLEACHING IS A NATURAL PHENOMENON & REEFS HAVE SURVIVED & THRIVED IN FAR HIGHER TEMPS & CO2 LEVELS IN THE PAST
CORALS evolved during the Cambrian era when atmospheric CO2 levels were at 6,000-7,000 ppm, around 4,000 percent or 20 times higher than today’s “CO2-starved” environment of 400 ppm, with atmospheric and ocean temps far higher than today.
THE world was hotter during the Holocene optimum, yet somehow the Great Barrier Reef survived.
CORAL reefs have survived millions of years of dramatic and sudden climate change, yet climate alarmists want us to believe that a few hundred ppm more of essential trace gas CO2 “has changed the Great Barrier Reef ‘forever,’ (WaPo)” or that even a “Great Barrier Reef recovery [is] unlikely after ‘catastrophic die-off’“?!
BLEACHING is a naturally occurring phenomenon essential to the health and regrowth of coral reefs.
The “Great Barrier Reef” is only “Great” because it has died off at least 7 known times over the millennia.
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DR TERRY HUGHES & THE POWER OF GRANT MONEY
Terry Hughes, is the director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, the same University who recently censured physicist at James Cook University Professor Peter Ridd who has dared to question scientific findings that purport to show the Great Barrier Reef is in trouble.
IN June 2017, Ridd made the headlines after suspecting something was wrong with photographs being used to highlight the apparent rapid decline of the Great Barrier Reef.
After attempting to blow the whistle on the bogus pictures, Ridd was censured by James Cook University and threatened with the sack…
ABC FAKE, FAKE NEWS…
See the fake Greenpeace picture (above) used here by the ABC: New national taskforce to help scientists prepare for predicted Barrier Reef coral bleaching – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
After a formal investigation, Professor Ridd was found guilty of “failing to act in a collegial way and in the academic spirit of the institution”!
His crime was to encourage questioning of two of the nation’s leading reef institutions, the Centre of Excellence for Coral Studies and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, on whether they knew that photographs they had published and claimed to show long-term collapse of reef health could be misleading and wrong.”Graham Lloyd – The Australian – 11 June 2016
THE same ‘free-thinking’ university ousted the late Professor Bob Carter from a position of honor because he criticised aspects of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) movement that has infected Western society over the past thirty years.
Read more at Climatism
With all their narrow minded focus on climate change/global warming, if there ever was a serious problem with the corals, they’d never find out what it was in time to save it.
Iguanas frozen, alligators in a state of cryogenic freeze, the coldest Super Bowl on record, and Niagara Falls frozen over are events where each one does not mean anything. However, lawyers have a concept call preponderance where a signal event might not mean anything, but taken together they have meaning. All of the events listed at the beginning of this article is an example of preponderance of evidence that does not favor the warmist view point.
In my posts I keep pointing out that the behavior of the climate alarmist represents some of the strongest evidence against the cause. Professors pointing out the false claims of the alaramists would be a non-issue if there were not right. The fact that they were disciplined shows their criticism was valid. Also included here is the concept that anthropological climate change is a religion. Just as was done in the middle ages, those not following the religion are persecuted.
Just as idiotic over the idea that the Earth is Fragile or the Delicate Balance of Nature poppycock and the usial Useful Idiots who fall Hook,Line and Sinker for this poppycock after all we saw them march through the streets of New York lead by Al Bore,Robert Kennedy Jr and Leonardo DiCaprio carrying dumb signs and banners with dumb slogans on them or pictures of sunflowers and the Keep it in the ground fools These anti Fracking anti drilling idiots need to live in a grass hut for year without heat or cool and and quit using all petrolium based products and lets see how they like living like that