Science Rebuts New Claims that Warming Is Destroying Coral Reefs

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Science Rebuts New Claims that Warming Is Destroying Coral Reefs
By
H. Sterling Burnett -
December 7, 20200
 

The Associated Press and many other corporate news outlets are promoting a new report by an environmental activist group claiming climate change is threatening the Great Barrier Reef and other reef systems with irreversible bleaching and death. To the contrary, scientific data show coral reefs are expanding their ranges in response to warming oceans. Also, the majority of Great Barrier Reef corals that have bleached have subsequently recovered, showing coral communities’ resilience to manmade and natural perturbances.

A new paper by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) makes the alarmist reef claims promoted by The Guardian, the Associated Press, the Albuquerque Journal, and others. The Guardian’s article, titled “Great Barrier Reef outlook ‘critical’ as climate change called number one threat to world heritage,” is typical of the media’s fawning and uncritical coverage of the IUCN report.

“The conservation outlook for the Great Barrier Reef has worsened from ‘significant concern’ to ‘critical’ – the most urgent status under the IUCN system,” asserts the Guardian. “The reef suffered its third mass coral bleaching in five years during the 2019-20 summer.”

https://climaterealism.com/2020/12/science-rebuts-new-claims-that-warming-is-destroying-coral-reefs/