World’s Coral Reefs Not Declining, New Paper Reveals
A new paper published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation refutes alarmist claims about the state of the world’s coral reefs
According to the author, eminent reef scientist Peter Ridd, the official data show no signs of any long-term trends in reef health.
Indeed, the best records – for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef – suggest thatcoral cover is at record highs.
Dr. Ridd said:
“The public is constantly told that reefs are being irreparably damaged by global warming, but bleaching events, about which there is so much doom-mongering, are simply corals’ natural response to changes in the environment.
They are an extraordinarily adaptable lifeform, and bleaching events are almost always followed by rapid recovery.”
Dr. Ridd suggests that rather than being seen as under threat from ‘climate change’, corals should actually be recognized as one of the organisms least likely to suffer harm in a warming world.
“Corals get energy from a symbiotic relationship with various species of algae.When environmental conditions change, they [coral] can rapidly switch to a different species that is better suited to the new conditions.
This shapeshifting means that most setbacks they suffer will be short-lived.”
Dr. Ridd says that the real risks to reefs come from overfishing and pollution.
The GWPF invited responses to this paper from authors likely to dissent from its conclusions.
None of the authors who were contacted accepted this invitation.
See more here climatechangedispatch and Peter Ridd’s pdf here thegwpf.org
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T. C. Clark
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A coral reef near Honduras is located near the mouth of a river that carries pollutants and yet it flourishes….why? No one seems to know.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi T.C.,
All life, unless parasites, need nutrients which absolutely pure water does not supply.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Herb,
If you are following my recent comments, the answer to your question of how a plant gets the carbon dioxide necessary for photosynthesis the obvious answer is the comes with the carbon dioxide dissolved in liquid water which (water) is also necessary for photosynthesis. Simple answers are too obvious so we too often ignore them.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Dave Coleman
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Actually, carbon dioxide enters the plant through openings on the underside of the leaves called stomata. It diffuses through the cell membranes and gets converted (along with water molecules delivered via the roots and stems) into simple sugars by the action of the chloroplasts.
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Herb Rose
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Jerry Krause Feb 7 2023 3:23 AM
” … photosynthesis (remove CO2 from the air …”
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Dave Coleman
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According to the fossil record, corals have been living on Earth for at least 600 million years. Anyone that says they are endangered by the miniscule changes in temperature we have experienced over the past fifty years is either a liar of a fool.
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