The Great Barrier Reef's coral cover reached the greatest extent ever recorded in 2022, 2023 and 2024 (AIMS) despite reports of supposed repeated bleaching. If you look at the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) data, the WIO (West Indian Ocean) shows 26% hard coral cover in 1985 upto 30% in 2020. South Asia reefs shows a decline around 2000 to below 25% then a regrowth to around 40% (2010) and a decline to 25% (2020). The Red Sea shows no change at around 25% (1995-2020). So the pattern in these three areas show no relationship to each other or to a changing climate. The Caribbean region reefs have a cover of around 0.15 ± 0.02. There is no evidence of a major reduction in coral cover in the Caribbean over the last two decades. GCRMN data for the most important coral bioregion, the East Asia Seas, with 30% of the world’s coral reefs, and containing the most diverse coral of the ‘Coral Triangle’, show no statistically significant net coral loss since records began. The East Asia region has the biggest human population living in close proximity to reefs, and is located in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool - the hottest major water mass on earth. Life is most diverse in the warmest parts of the world’s oceans. This has been shown across 13 major taxonomic groups from zooplankton to marine mammals. Warmer water = more biodiversity. This is a scare story about things you cannot see.
@topherjb1Ай бұрын
Yes, it is important to get information from different sources, not just those who profit from telling us that everything is going wrong. Thank you for your input @OldScientist
@OldScientistАй бұрын
As regards ocean acidification, it is estimated that the ocean’s global mean surface pH may have declined (i.e., become less alkaline and thus more “acidic”) by -0.07 to -0.08 in the last 200 years - from pH8.12 during pre-industrial times to 8.04 to 8.05 today (Wei et al, 2015). N.B. The decline in pH occurred before 1930. However, and very importantly when you look the data after CO2 emissions began rising precipitously in the 1930s, the oceans have become less “acidic”!!! By way of comparison, from one season to the next, or over the course of less than 6 months, pH levels naturally change by ±0.15 pH units, or twice the overall rate of the last 200 years. On a per-decade scale, the changes are even more pronounced. Oceanic pH values naturally fluctuate up and down by up to 0.6 U within a span of a decade, with an overall range between 7.66 and 8.40. This decadal rate of pH change is larger than the overall 200-year span (0.07-0.08) by a factor of 8. Indeed the daily noted maximum pH range of 0.7 (Santos et al. 2011) is far greater than the overall change predicted between now and the end of the century.
@volkerengels5298Ай бұрын
very very very old. :))
@OldScientistАй бұрын
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@aslampervaiz4073Ай бұрын
Thank you for the wonderful message and video! God bless the entire team and their families Amen 🙏
@marianasalles242Ай бұрын
Stop mass tourism and over fishing
@grahamelvis6473Ай бұрын
So why, in the sixties, when I was at school did we hear about massive bleaching events? And, by the way, the scientific consensus was that we were entering a new ice age.
@gordonaliasme1104Ай бұрын
Let coral live !
@user-eu4zy6rm3lАй бұрын
I think we should report this to the BBC's own "fake news" channel.
@fufutilgner2196Ай бұрын
I do not understand the effort and resources put into this. As sea levels are rising most Corals will die anyways over the next decades.
@caosontong8913Ай бұрын
18:38 hakai =))))))))
@salom-rp1czАй бұрын
Good 🎉🎉
@radman1136Ай бұрын
Well ... if coral reefs make it to 2100 they're on schedule to outlast the human species by half a century at least.
@JoshTabor-zu3jsАй бұрын
I’ll save you the time the answer is no we as a species cannot, we can barely stop from totally obliterating ourselves the coral are proper fucked
@Matt-fs9tgАй бұрын
Nonsense
@salom-rp1czАй бұрын
The first one watch it🎉
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