Great Barrier Reef suffering ‘most severe’ coral bleaching on record as footage shows damage 18 metres down

Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨hanrahan@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨australia@aussie.zone⁩

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/11/great-barrier-reef-severe-coral-bleaching-impact

Ward said the impact of bleaching had been extensive across 16 sites that she visited in the reef’s southern section, affecting coral species that had usually been resistant to bleaching. Some coral had started to die, a process that usually takes weeks or months after bleaching occurs.

“I feel devastated,” she said. “I’ve been working on the reef since 1992 but this [event], I’m really struggling with.”

As do I Dr. Ward, with ever election result reinforcing the deveststation of the orthodoxy and the disregard my fellow citizens have for a livable biosphere.

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pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I took a dip in Horseshoe Bay (Magnetic Island) last year, and the water was well over 30°C that day. It was actually uncomfortably warm even for humans.

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abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

As do I Dr. Ward, with ever election result reinforcing the deveststation of the orthodoxy and the disregard my fellow citizens have for a livable biosphere.

This is a fight we will win, eventually, and we should never give up or back down because that would delay our eventual victory. The primary enemy is idiots who don’t even believe climate change is real but as the world crumbles around them they’ll eventually acknowledge that mistake (it will be easier, by the way, for them to acknowledge their mistake if we try to be welcoming rather than ostracising those people).

Can we win every battle? No. There will be losses and the reef could be one of them. But we have to win the war. There’s no other option.

Never Give Up

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- hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  As do I Dr. Ward, with ever election result reinforcing the deveststation of the orthodoxy and the disregard my fellow citizens have for a livable biosphere.
  
  This is a fight we will win, eventually, and we should never give up or back down because that would delay our eventual victory. The primary enemy is idiots who don’t even believe climate change is real but as the world crumbles around them they’ll eventually acknowledge that mistake (it will be easier, by the way, for them to acknowledge their mistake if we try to be welcoming rather than ostracising those people).
  
  We also don’t need everyone on our side. Just half of the population, and we’re pretty close to that number.
  
  Can we win every battle? No. There will be losses and the reef could be one of them. But we have to win the war. There’s no other option.
  
  Never Give Up
  
  The primary enemy is idiots who don’t even believe climate change is real but as the world crumbles around them they’ll eventually acknowledge that mistake
  
  I doubt they’ll acknowledge anything like that, quite the opposite , we’re drifting further right becase of it and nonsense like nuclear energy is coming to the fore, not as a solution but as a banner to rally fellow conservatives to blame The Greens instead of self reflection on their own stupidity.
  
  More rhetoric around refugees and more expenditures on stupid defence policies rather then managed abandonment and infrastruxtre to lower emsisions like electrified rail etc etc.
  
  I’d suggest we’ll see more vitriol, more hate and more nonsense all while the biosphere gets less habitable.
  
  We aren’t even yet discussing the actual problem, all we’re doing is trying to defy the laws of physics and buy our way out of this stupidity with nonsense like ecars and distract with nonsense like nuclear subs.
  
  The challenge is way beyond anything we’re prepared to countenance as yet, both in terms of mitigation and in terms of adaptation
  
  Professor Kevin Anderson:
  
  www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-16/…/103649728
  
  This is something everyone should be worried about, and everyone should be angry about, frankly,” NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch coordinator Derek Manzello said.
  
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JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I thought it had been reversing?

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- Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This graph might explain some of it:
  
  climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
  
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  - supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Everyday it is looking more and more like something systematic has changed in the paradigm of heat transfer into the oceans, some critical threshold has been broken where a previously efficient cooling system that kept things in check has now become seriously compromised.
    
    This is a harrowing moment to say the least :(
    
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  - PersonalDevKit@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This graph really just makes me think we are fucked, like really fucked, easily in the span of a human life time, if not a few years.
    
    How will this not have crazy knock on effects?
    
    Yet I still go to work and plan for the future and just live my life in some sort of daze. Still tell myself I’ll find a wife and have kids one day.
    
    I wonder of I just allow myself to live the ignorance is bliss life, the embodiment of the “this is fine” meme, like so many on this world. Easier just to go with the human flow as we slowly all jump off the cliff like a herd of buffalo.
    
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