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If we go to 3, 4 degrees of global average warming which is tragically the trajectory we are currently on, then there won't be much left of The Great Barrier Reef or any other coral reefs throughout the tropics.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We saw record-breaking temperatures all along the length of the Great Barrier Reef, there wasn't a cool portion in the north, or a cool portion in the south this time around, the whole Barrier Reef was hot so the bleaching we have seen this year is the most extensive so far.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We are all in shock really at how quick this has happened, three severe bleaching events in five years is not something we anticipated happening until the middle of the century.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That's incredibly destructive. Those extreme temperatures can kill the coral very quickly, we really are on uncharted territory here in terms of rising temperatures.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When we go back underwater in a few months time, we anticipate significant mortality or loss of those corals.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Normal recovery rates for the reef are being impinged by the scale of the loss of the adult root stock -- that's the grown up corals that make the babies.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This has been the saddest research trip of my life, almost without exception, every reef we flew across showed consistently high levels of bleaching, from the reef slope right up onto the top of the reef. We flew for 4000 kilometers (2,485 miles) in the most pristine parts of the Great Barrier Reef and saw only four reefs that had no bleaching. The severity is much greater than in earlier bleaching events in 2002 or 1998.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
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