Green Turtle just finished laying her eggs and now heading back to the ocean.
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Emissions standards and shortfalls; An ocean temp zone of epic proportions; Snowpacks & Snowmelts; #greatBarrier debates; Grid scale Battery storage gets cheaper; and a look at #Spring color, all on Guy Walton's #ExtremeTemperature Diary today:
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The hottest water (positive anomaly, left) is now on the northern and southern #GreatBarrier, with cooler conditions in the middle.
This pattern is highly unusual. In past events, heat stress and coral bleaching have shown a north-south or south-north gradient (right)
The #GreatBarrier Reef has 1.1 million hectares of hard substrate at depths of 0–20m. It would take approximately 250 million large adult corals each 4,000 cm2 in size (i.e., 10,000 ha of additional coral tissue), or a billion 1,000 cm2 corals, to increase coral cover by 1%.
Sea Surface temperatures (SST) have dropped sharply this week on the #GreatBarrier following a late-summer heatwave in early March.
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Recovery of coral cover on the #GreatBarrier Reef is driven by the tabular Acropora, which ironically are the most susceptible group to recurrent anthropogenic heatwaves. Like fire in terrestrial ecosystems, long-lived species are being replaced by weeds....
Sadly, the disastrous back-to back coral bleaching on the #GreatBarrier Reef In 2016 & 2017 wasn’t a sufficient motivator for voters or politicians....
Many of us do go to the #GreatBarrier on a regular basis. Dozens of Commonwealth & State reports, and 100s of scientific articles have measured the decline in its condition....
Trillions of baby corals are recolonising the northern & central #GreatBarrier after bleaching in 2016 & 2017.
Attempts to “assist” and “climate-proof the reef”, by growing some corals artificially, are inconsequential - and a distraction from direct action to reduce emissions.
The future of Queensland is not coal. More emissions, dredging and shipping are a grave threat to the #GreatBarrier www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0351...
Were Historical Pictures of #GreatBarrier Reef Degradation Really Misused, as climate-skeptic claims? www.desmogblog.com/2016/06/16/were-historic...
#GreatBarrier Reef 2050 plan to fix water quality will fall short of UNESCO targets: senior government scientist www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-03/great-ba...
Harvard Political Review: Australia's #GreatBarrier Reef - tourism jobs vastly outweigh #coal harvardpolitics.com/world/icon-pressure-grea... http://t.co/qRH0fQn79o