Australia’s top Great Barrier Reef officials warn the natural wonder will virtually collapse if the planet becomes 1.5 degrees hotter – a threshold that scientists say requires shutting down coal within three decades.
Climate change has already wrought devastating effects on the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef, including two consecutive years of mass coral bleaching in 2016 and 2017.In response to the threat, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority – the federal government’s lead agency for managing the reef – has prepared a climate change position statement.under freedom of information laws, has not been released to the general public despite being in development for the past 15 months.
The IPCC says the global coal industry must virtually shut down by 2030 to prevent catastrophic climate change.The authority has long said climate change is the greatest threat facing the reef. However climate action advocates say to date, it has not sufficiently emphasised the repercussions of exceeding a 1.5-degree temperature rise.
The government has been plagued by internal divisions over emissions and insists coal has a strong future in Australia.
Thats funny another Govt dept says ''summer'' bleaching risk is over. Its weather not AGW
ban shipping channel tru d reef They have to to to Darwin or tru Southern ocean
Why would any rational thinking person believe “them” this time. Research funds must be running low. Go to the bottom drawer and pull out another doomsday, catastrophic prediction. Now, the $$$ keep rolling in. Mark Butler, Labor promising $$millions. seriously auspol
Radical action? Absolutely. But don't wait for governments! If we did, our species would die off. If climate change genuinely concerns you, start by getting rid of petrol and drive an electric car. The climate and your wallet will thank you.
drkerrynphelps And yet not much seems to get done. We need to save our planet or we or more importantly our children and their children will have no planet.
Dear Queensland when you vote at this election, you will be choosing between Adani coal and the survival of the Great Barrier Reef. The best science says you cannot have both. Your choice will impact this nation for centuries to come. Please choose wisely.
A_Milewski Yeah what ever.. Listen to local knowledge Not paid doomsday scientists..
news_australian So if this authority said the reef is fine, would they get more money or less? From the report it appears that agricultural run off and dredging are not factors in the destruction of the reef.
Yes, as soon as China, India, USA and Russia adopt emissions reduction targets worth a damn the pidly reductions that Australia could make on its own is self harm and meaningless!
4 Corners episode 'Great Barrier Grief' has highlighted one dredging point, where poorly maintained shipping will enter the reef waterways. Numerous other ports along the entire length of the Reef are underway, CC is causing adverse effects, damage from shipping will blame CC.
p_hannam James Edward Kamis Geologist & AAPG member of 41 yrs says 'None of Earth’s other oceans are warming. This telling piece of information strengthens likelihood that current Pacific Ocean warming is related to natural deep ocean geological forces & not man-made atmospheric warming'
we need filtration ponds on farm runoffs Simply use sea weed It is called sea lettuce to filter out d nitrogen so fertilizer is not discharged to d sea CSIRO &James Cook uni Keep d sea clean Ban Eastern seaboard freight via d reef They should stay 300km off
Just to clarify, when the article says saving the reef requires 'shutting down coal', are they talking about shutting down Australia's few remaining power stations, or the hundreds of existing and yet to be built (oxymoron, much) coal fired power stations around the globe?
Last week they said it was too late, 20 years ago they said it would be gone 10 years ago. I'm starting to see these opinions like it see doomsday sayers who keep changing the date of the rapture when it doesn't happen.
There is no shield around Australia, even if we could magically bring our emissions down to zero, it would only take two more months of Chinese emissions to cancel that reduction out.
drkerrynphelps dont worry, the government is sure that coal will save it. coal will save everything................. ...................... .........................
The Little Reef That Could.
The indoctrinated masses.
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