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Record Great Barrier Reef Coral Cover – Time to Pull the Climate Crisis Funding?
CORAL REEFS 6 hours ago Eric Worrall 19 Comments
Essay by Eric Worrall
The Guardian talking up the alleged climate risk to the reef, in the midst of a record boom in coral cover.
Great Barrier Reef’s record coral cover is good news but climate threat remains
Graham Readfearn
The world heritage site still has some capacity for recovery but the window is closing fast as the climate continues to warm
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the planet’s natural jewels, stretching for more than 2,300km along Australia’s north-east.
But as well as being a bucket-list favourite and a heaving mass of biodiversity across 3,000 individual reefs, the world heritage-listed organism is at the coalface of the climate crisis.
Yet this week, a report on the amount of coral across the reef showed the highest level in the 36 years of monitoring in the north and central parts.
But that does not mean the crisis is over.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/13/record-great-barrier-reef-coral-cover-time-to-pull-the-climate-crisis-funding/
