Inconvenient: Giant Coral Reef That ‘Died’ In 2003 Teeming With Life Again

wattsupwiththat.com ^ | August 18, 2016 | Anthony Watts

[DannyTN]

Zombie reef ping

[WKUHilltopper]

Everyone knows that it came back to life because Al Gore did a naked Indian dance over it and Obama merely just thought about it. Al and Oblahblah saves us again.

[WMarshal]

In AZ it is impossible to totally wipe out insects and weeds with pesticides and herbicides, they always come back. Life has been around 1 billion years for a reason. Individual species may be wiped out but new ones always rise to fill any void.

[BitWielder1]

Could it be part of a natural process or does everything has to be global warming and our fault?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Moltke]

ocean acidification

Typical misinformation propaganda. The oceans are not acidic. They are still alkaline, though perhaps a little less than in the past. It's just a small shift in the direction of acidity. Big, big difference.

[catbertz]

I read that Leo DiCrapio saved the reef with his tireless efforts, flying around the world, to tell us how to live better. I, for one, am thankful for his leadership!

[Fiddlstix]

Mother Nature At Her Best

[minnesota_bound]

They say it was warm water but I think it has to be something else. Corals would survive warm water as it is all around it and has been forever. Since the reporting is corrupt on global baloney then I say they zoomed in a section of a reef or just made up the report of corals dying just like Antarctica and the Artic and all the glaciers are melting and the polar bears are dying off.

[Moltke]

When Dr Peter Mumby had visited Tivaru on the Rangiroa lagoon six months later, he’d found a vast majority of the region’s prolific Porites coral, normally the hardiest of coral species, had followed suit. Based on the known growing rates for the species, Mumby predicted it would take the Porites nearly 100 years to recover, not 15. “Our projections were completely wrong,” he says.

So is he going to relinquish his degree? No, didn't think so. A$$hat. His a$$hat colleagues that are destroying trillions in wealth with their climate change hysteria probably won't either. Oops, were we wrong? So sorry.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The Globalist Politicians have an Agenda and it needs fund to implement.

They are having problems convincing us that /global warning is happening and is our fault!

[donna]

In Phoenix, we put up a new patio cover and found three feet of Bermuda grass inside my bedroom wall.

[aquila48]

The reefs must have not read the news that we had the hottest year on record.

[bgill]

Oops.

[JPJones]

“Our projections were completely wrong,” he says.

We told you so.

[Organic Panic]

Any salt water aquarium enthusiasts here???

When I first started I could only afford a few “live rocks” to throw in my tank. After about 6 months of good light and good water the tank was teaming with little critters, corals, shrimps, and all manner of life. All from about 5 pounds of seemingly dead rocks.

Progressives love the urgency of now and if not now then it is forever doomed. It allows them immediate power while panic is strong.

By the way... How is the Gulf of Mexico still alive? It was suppose to be completely void of life was it not??? where’d all that oil go??? Could it be oil is as natural as water and there are critters that eat the stuff??? Nah.

[blueunicorn6]

If we all go to the freezer and get an ice cube and drop it in the toilet and flush it, I think the temperature of the ocean would go down seven or eight degrees.

But then the fish would grow hair to stay warm.

“Waiter, what’s the catch of the day?”

“Hairy Tuna.”

“I guess I’ll go with the sirloin steak.”

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Apparently the reef didn't "die" any more then a tree that loses it's leaves in autumn dies.

It just went into a short hibernation then came back.

For all we know this is a necessary part of the life cycle of coral reefs.

[Mr. K]

You need to write an entire book like that.

I’m series.