You mean those manipulated farcical peer reviewed facts? .....:jump:
You ignore the facts put up and merely scoff with head in the sand
No ocean warming , no cyclones in NQ this season......Ocean has to be 28c for cyclones to form.....Ocean therefore must be cooling.
The good old commo paper the Guardian cheery picked one isolated case ...what about the other 2500 km of reef....he better check that out too.
Scientists report that the same scenes are being replicated along a 1,000km section of the reef, more than a third of its total expanse. Of 500 reefs between Cairns and Papua New Guinea surveyed during this current episode, 95% have experienced significant coral bleaching – only four reefs showed no impact.
Why not actually read the story Noco ?
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/17/great-barrier-reef-worst-destruction
Yes more exaggeration from the good old commie paper the Guardian.......I could not give credence to anything they come up with...Full of lies and propaganda.
I would prefer to take note of Professor Peter Ridd JCU who has studied the the Barrier Reef for 30 years and he is still adamant the reef is in excellent shape.
Keep digging Noco. I think you have gone past bedrock and should reach the mantle soon. Perhaps if you cut into an underground stream it might wash some sense into you.
Anyway responding to your ignorant rubbish is a waste of time and energy. I'll leave it at that
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The research was done for and behalf of a group of Reef stakeholders including the Tourist Authority.
Now that is the pot calling the kettle BLACK.LMAO...What a joke you Greenies are.....always right and anyone Else's opinion is rubbish....If you can't win an argument you always resort the Fabian method of ridicule, intimidation and character assassination.
The one thing, which is most important, is the assertion by the fossil fuel industry and the people who support them, that it would be expensive to solve the problem, is absolutely wrong. There have been economic studies that show if you add a gradually rising fee to fossil fuels, by collecting a fee on fossil fuel companies at the source, the domestic mine, or port of entry, and if you distribute the money to the public, an equal amount to all legal residents, it would actually spur the economy. It would increase the gross domestic product and add millions of jobs.
We need to have such a common sense solution, which is revenue neutral, so it doesn’t make the government bigger. Instead of proposing taxes or regulations that conservatives will fight tooth and nail, we should find an approach that both liberals and conservatives would be willing to support. That’s what needs to be understood, that it’s not painful to solve this problem if we are smart, but we have to think this through.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/t...bleaching-surveys-reveal-20160419-goa6jw.htmlThe Great Barrier Reef: 93% hit by coral bleaching, surveys reveal
Date
April 20, 2016 - 6:00AM
195 reading now
Tom Arup
Although bleaching of the reef has occurred before, this event is by far the biggest.
Scientists surveying the mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef say only 7 per cent of Australia's environmental icon has been left untouched by the event.
The final results of plane and helicopter surveys by scientists involved in the National Coral Bleaching Taskforce has found that of the 911 reefs they observed, just 68 had escaped any sign of bleaching.
A diver checks out the bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef.
The severity of the bleaching is mixed across the barrier reef, with the northern stretches hit the hardest.
Overall, severe bleaching of between 60 and 100 per cent of coral was recorded on 316 reefs, almost all of them in the northern half of the barrier reef. Reefs in central and southern regions of the 2300 kilometre Great Barrier Reef have experienced more moderate to mild affects.
The mass bleaching event has been driven by significantly higher than average sea temperatures as a result of the current El Nino event, coupled with a long-term warming of the oceans due to climate change.
While the barrier reef has experienced mass coral bleaching events in the past – notably in 1998 and 2002 – Professor Terry Hughes, convenor of the bleaching taskforce, said the current event was by far the biggest.
What is happening to the Great Barrier Reef
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/t...bleaching-surveys-reveal-20160419-goa6jw.html
The coral around Sydney is also bleaching for the first time.
I did a few weeks back and you never responded to my post. Actually, I recall providing a response to you on several occasions and being ignored.Bas you and others have never explained to me why their has been no cyclones in North Queensland in the past 2 years
Quiet cyclone season predicted for Australia as El Nino sets in
Date
October 12, 2015
Peter Hannam
Forecasters expect a below average cyclone season but we "will see floods" along with hailstorms and heatwaves.
This year's powerful El Nino in the Pacific will likely have one benefit for Australia, with fewer tropical cyclones expected in the region, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
There is only a 9 per cent chance that Australia will have more than the 11 cyclones typical for the November-April season, the bureau said in its seasonal outlook released on Monday. Of those 11, four storms usually cross the Australian mainland coast.
In El Nino years, weather patterns shift eastwards and conditions are less conducive for cyclones to form in the Australian region. Those patterns, including a stalling or reversal of the easterly equatorial trade winds in the Pacific, also tend to reduce rainfall and lift temperatures over much of Australia.
The basic theory of the three phases of ENSO are here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/history/ln-2010-12/three-phases-of-ENSO.shtml
TL;DR version is in each phase the ocean winds / currents are acting differently so the warmer water ends up in a different part of the Pacific Ocean.
During El Nino the water closer to the northern parts of Australia is cooler, so generally there is less rainfall and less cyclone activity. Land temperature is warmer because there is less cloud coverage etc.
During La Nina the water in that region is warmer.
http://www.theguardian.com/environm...ers-to-buy-110-gigawatt-hours-from-renewables
Energy: consortium offers to buy 110 gigawatt hours from renewables
@MikeySlezak
Wednesday 20 April 2016 08.08 AEST
Australia’s first large renewable energy project driven by a group of big energy consumers is a step closer to reality today, with the Melbourne Renewable Energy Project advertising its call for tenders for 110 gigawatt hours of renewable energy.
Organised by the City of Melbourne, the consortium includes two other councils, Australia Post, National Australia Bank, two universities and Zoos Victoria.
Between them they are offering to buy 110GWh of energy, which would require a renewable energy plant with about 15 wind turbines or 250,000 solar panels.
Councillor Arron Wood from the City of Melbourne said the project emerged from the council’s target to source 25% of its energy from renewables by 2018.
If this heat keeps up in Hobart ( 26C today and it's April )we will see the end of our salmon industry one day soon . The bonus is we can now replace all the apple farms with pineapple farms and all the coral will move down here with rest of the tropical fish that have decided it's warm enough to call Tassie home now.
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