{"id":392170,"date":"2025-08-01T11:22:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=392170"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:23:06","slug":"mainstream-naysayers-gather-as-hopes-rise-for-fourth-year-of-record-coral-on-the-great-barrier-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=392170","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream Naysayers Gather As Hopes Rise for Fourth Year of Record Coral on the Great Barrier Reef"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Chris Morrison<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the next few days, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) will issue its annual report on the state of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). For alarmists promoting the Net Zero fantasy the news has been dire over the last three years, with record coral reported across the largest reef in the world. Such is the obvious despair even daft excuses suggesting it is the wrong type of coral have been heard. Faced with inconvenient facts, the usual groomed game plan in mainstream media has been to issue dire warnings of possible imminent collapse and then keep schtum when the sensational figures surface. Recently the BBC gave us its \u201c\u2019underwater bushfire\u2019 cooking Australia\u2019s reefs<\/a>\u201d. Alas, the Australian Government\u2019s Reef Authority is less cataclysmic in its reporting, noting indications in June this year that there were \u201cno current heat stresses across the Reef\u201d. Between April 14th and May 31st, 342 impact inspections were carried out which found coral bleaching on just three of the 34 reefs<\/a> surveyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We must wait for a fuller picture from the upcoming 2024\/25 AIMS survey but available details suggest another healthy year for the GBR. The BBC agitprop<\/em> reported on dire conditions at the Ningaloo Reef off the Australian north-west coast, but it linked the GBR by noting a \u201cworrying superlative\u201d. Reefs on both sides of the continent have been bleached for what is claimed to be the first time. \u201cIt\u2019s like a raging bushfire that has persisted for months now, wreaking harm right across the coast\u201d, said Paul Gamblin, who heads up the Australian Marine Conservation Society. \u201cIt\u2019s an absolutely devastating event and people are reeling from it. It is enormous. It\u2019s unprecedented. It\u2019s absolutely not normal\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite how the BBC can witness a current underwater \u201cbush fire\u201d raging across the GBR is not immediately clear. Nor is it clear how the BBC can report first time bleaching across all of Australia\u2019s main reefs when the process is a natural event that has certainly occurred over hundreds of millions of years of coral development. The BBC reports that the \u201cheatwaves\u201d in Australia are all part of something called the \u201cfourth global bleaching event\u201d which \u201cexperts say\u201d has swept across large areas of the globe affecting more than 80% of the world\u2019s coral reefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, back in the world of observational science, the Reef Authority reports that in June 2025 most of the observed GBR coral bleaching was at low levels of 1\u201310% and only in the northern region. No bleaching was observed in the central and southern regions. The biggest current threat appears to be the ever-lurking crown-of-thorns starfish, with outbreaks impacting a number of regions. Work continues on culling operations. Drops in ocean temperatures have been reported across the Reef, although they are still said to be above average \u2013 an average, of course, based on just a few decades of measurement. Short-term rises in temperature can induce coral bleaching but they appear to quickly recover. Tropical coral grows in waters between 24\u00b0C and 32\u00b0C, and growth is generally quicker in warmer seas. Short-term natural spikes come and go, leaving a politicised trail of shrieking headlines in their wake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AIMS annual survey usually runs up to June, so it is of interest to observe what the Reef Authority has been reporting during the year. In February, summer sea temperatures were falling across most of the Reef with impact surveys showing low levels of bleaching across almost the entire area. Back in September 2024, the surveys revealed that most of the 31 individual reefs observed \u201cshowed no signs of coral bleaching, with very few cases of minor bleaching reported in each region\u201d. In October, it was noted that temperatures across the marine park were around 0.6\u00b0C higher than average but they were \u201cnot at levels that typically cause impacts such as coral bleaching\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mainstream grooming over coral on the Great Barrier Reef, once a poster event for inducing mass climate psychosis, is plain for all to see. Ahead of 2024\u2019s third record-breaking growth year, a convenient non-story appeared in Nature<\/em> that claimed \u201cclimate change\u201d posed an \u201cexistential threat\u201d to the GBR. \u201cThe science tells us that the GBR is in danger \u2013 and we should be guided by the science\u201d, Professor Helen McGregor from the University of Wollongong told Victoria Gill of BBC News<\/a>. The existential threat is \u201cnow realised<\/a>\u201d reported the gibbering Guardian<\/em>. In fact the Nature<\/em> paper used proxy temperatures and climate models to suggest temperatures around the vast reef area were the highest recorded in 400 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your correspondent might have missed subsequent reports in both the Guardian<\/em> and BBC about the three record-breaking years of coral growth. I asked Grok for help and the reply came back: \u201cI couldn\u2019t find reports from the Guardian <\/em>and the BBC specifically stating that the Great Barrier Reef has shown \u2018three record-breaking years of growth\u2019.\u201d Grok further noted that there was no coverage of last year\u2019s performance but rather it focused on challenges due to \u201cglobal heating\u201d. Just four months before last year\u2019s announcement, the Guardian <\/em>noted that the GBR faced its worst summer on record with widespread bleaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will this be a record fourth year of a news blackout on the amazing resilience of one of the great wonders of the natural world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is the<\/em> Daily Sceptic\u2019s Environment Editor<\/em>. Follow him on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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