Coral at the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) faces another year of exile from the climate scare headlines with news that the record levels reported in 2021-22 have been sustained in the latest annual period to May 2023. A small drop in the three main areas of the reef was well within margin of error territory, with the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) reporting that regional average hard coral cover in 2022-2023 was similar to last year at 35.7%. Most reefs underwent little change during the year.

Coral at the reef has been bouncing back sharply for a number of years, with a record 36-year high reported in 2022. But the news of this spectacular recovery has been largely ignored in most media since it had previously been a go-to poster scare story for collectivist Net Zero promoters. But connecting the fate of tropical corals to global warming was always a difficult ask since they grow in waters between 24-32°C. Short boosts in local temperatures can cause temporary bleaching, but it is scientifically impossible to pin it on human-caused climate change, although pseudoscientific ‘attribution’ computer models try very hard.

In the latest year, there was a short local temperature rise, but little bleaching was reported during the 2023 summer. No cyclones hit the reef and crown-of thorns starfish attacks were limited. Nevertheless, natural stresses will always affect the eco-system and AIMS states that these paused the growth of hard coral on some of the reefs.

Like most state-funded scientific bodies, AIMS is fully signed up to climate extremism and delivering politically correct messages to promote the Net Zero solution. Despite reporting what is now a substantial multi-year recovery, it notes that the future is predicted to bring more frequent, intense and enduring marine heatwaves, alongside the persistent threat of crown-of thorns starfish outbreaks and tropical cyclones. More frequent mass coral bleaching is a sign that the GBR is experiencing the consequences of climate change, it claims. However, in a different part of its latest report, AIMS accepts that the recent substantial recovery occurred despite two mass coral bleaching events in 2020 and 2022. There is an acceptance that this underlines that “widespread coral bleaching does not necessarily lead to extensive coral mortality”.

But pockets of extremist catastrophism remain in the mainstream media, notably in the Guardian, fighting to keep the coral destruction story going. A year ago, the newspaper reported that the GBR still had “some capacity” for recovery, but the window was closing fast as the climate continued to warm. Of course the Guardian has form as long as your arm on this score. Back in 1999, George Monbiot told its readers that the “imminent total destruction of the world’s coral reefs is not a scare story but a fact”.

In last year’s Guardian report, Dr. Mike Emslie, who leads the AIMS monitoring service, said he felt a “couple of bullets” had been recently dodged. While the recovery is great, “the predictions are the disturbances will get worse”, he suggested. “The naysayers can put their heads in the sand all they like, but the frequency of disturbances is going gangbusters,” he claimed. Dr. David Wachenfeld from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority claimed “global heating” of 1.5°C is considered a “guardrail for reefs”, after which the bleaching comes along too quickly for strong recovery.

Coral reefs have been around in one form or another for hundreds of millions of years. Current global temperatures are towards the lower end of the paleoclimatic record. One might wonder how corals manage to survive temperatures up to 10°C higher in the past?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/fine-prosecution-playing-loud-annoying-music-london-tube-underground-jubilee-line-b1100045.html

This is the kind of nanny state fascism I can get behind

BBC News - Special counsel to investigate President Biden's son Hunter
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66480353

Political witch hunt 😎👍

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted about 5 hours ago
BBC News - Migrants being moved off barge over bacteria fears
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-66476538

The stupid barge is doing its job of taking up bandwidth while the the ineptitude of our govt should be the real focus
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Well it's good to see the government are following through on one of their pledges by at least stopping one migrant boat.

comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted about 5 hours ago
BBC News - Migrants being moved off barge over bacteria fears
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-66476538

The stupid barge is doing its job of taking up bandwidth while the the ineptitude of our govt should be the real focus
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Well it's good to see the government are following through on one of their pledges by at least stopping one migrant boat.
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comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 1 hour, 23 minutes ago
BBC News - Special counsel to investigate President Biden's son Hunter
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66480353

Political witch hunt 😎👍
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I think he should be investigated. But so should Kushner $2B from Saudis. Larry Kudlow $1B from Saudis. Oh and his plea deal fell through when he refused the felony gun possession and demanded a misdemeanor charge. A change Democrats demanded be the law.

Been revealed the home office KNEW of legionella in the water on board the prison barge and with that knowledge located more asylum seekers onto it. Truly depraved behaviour from the sociopathic Braverman and jenrick.

comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 2 minutes ago
Been revealed the home office KNEW of legionella in the water on board the prison barge and with that knowledge located more asylum seekers onto it. Truly depraved behaviour from the sociopathic Braverman and jenrick.
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If this is so this person should be charged in the ECHR. Might be one reason they're so desperate to leave it.
This is actually worse than that clown in Texas did with the razor wire buoys in the Rio Grande.
I wonder if skum is still too strong a word to describe UNTS like this Braverman.

Also massively illegal

https://www.hse.gov.uk/legionnaires/what-you-must-do.htm

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 55 seconds ago
Also massively illegal

https://www.hse.gov.uk/legionnaires/what-you-must-do.htm
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Yeah, but charge them in a court they don't run.
What has the UN said about this?

This Freedom the breakshitters were after sounds like the Freedom Tom Robinson sang about.

30p Lee-noch 😂

James O’Brien 👏

More lies from the prime minister

https://fullfact.org/immigration/safe-and-legal-asylum-routes/

King Chuckles gets himself a 45% pay rise because, who knew, he owns the seabed around these isles and with more building of offshore wind farms, he gets a slice.

Totally normal country.

This is a truly incredible story:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66450500

What people are prepared to put themselves through to escape poverty and persecution says a huge amount about these kind of situations, which most (hopefully all) of us will never be able to even begin to imagine.

Hopefully Friday and Yeye are able to build comfortable and safe lives for themselves and eventually their families in Brasil. Wouldn’t it be incredible if the four managed to sell their story to Hollywood? I think they’d be able to argue that they had earned that.

Wow! Terrifying just reading that.

We live in a world where comedic political satire makes far more sense that anything coming out of the major political parties.

https://youtu.be/CohnFb1tOUU

One dead and five in a serious condition after migrant boat sinks in English Channel, says French coastguard

This is pure waaank material for the Tories

comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 1 hour, 11 minutes ago
We live in a world where comedic political satire makes far more sense that anything coming out of the major political parties.

https://youtu.be/CohnFb1tOUU
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“As usual, the Tories create a problem and then pitch themselves as a solution, before demonstrating that they are completely incapable of being that solution.”

Nailed it.

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 5 hours, 48 minutes ago
King Chuckles gets himself a 45% pay rise because, who knew, he owns the seabed around these isles and with more building of offshore wind farms, he gets a slice.

Totally normal country.
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Lol whut?

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 6 hours, 51 minutes ago
King Chuckles gets himself a 45% pay rise because, who knew, he owns the seabed around these isles and with more building of offshore wind farms, he gets a slice.

Totally normal country.
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That’s certainly an interesting take on it lol

At least two dead, including infant, after migrant boat capsizes off Tunisia

Breaks your heart

How to take down a racist Tory

https://x.com/lbc/status/1690367534225354752?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

Sir Keir Starmer has scrapped Labour’s commitment to rolling out clean air zones across the country in an apparent slap down for Sadiq Khan.

A statement affirming support for the zones, which charge drivers money based on their vehicle’s emissions, has been slashed from the party’s programme.

Well done Keir

Those 6 poor people that tragically died in the channel yesterday, according to UK and French sources, were from war torn Sudan and Afghanistan yet they cannot claim asylum unless they are physically on UK soil.

This issue isn't going away and currently our immigration service doesn't have the man-power to cope with investigating claims. Wouldn't it make sense to employ more asylum investigation officers?
Bluster about being tough on the small boats patently isn't working as a deterrent.

Open immigration offices abroad, deal with claims in a speedy manner, get legitimate claimants into work, paying taxes and supporting themselves and bogus claimants onto planes.

Ministers push forwards with plans to reverse the move towards gender-neutral toilets in bid to protect single $ex spaces

New public buildings and private offices will have to provide single $ex toilets