Isn’t the Great Barrier Reef supposed to be gone by now according to 90’s news stories.
NPR even couldn’t lie…
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/04/1115539492/coral-great-barrier-reef-australia
That was my first thought, that this is the “Great Barrier Reef is dying” hysteria all over again. Even after the Oz reef is seen to be thriving 20 years later.
I was diving Aus in ‘96.
Conditions are just fine and I hear they are still just fine.
Bali and Cozumel is were all the damage is.
Cozumel....reefs covered by sand from Hurricanes.
Bali....dynamite fishing has destroyed all their reefs.
University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Science had to hurry to get this published and the grant check cashed before the scam becomes too obvious. The Great Barrier Reef recovery is starting to blow the deal.
They are now saying that coral bleaching is a natural process which occurs cyclically.
Apparently does not hurt coral at all!