In 2003, researchers declared Coral Castles dead.
Posted on 08/22/2016 9:31:15 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
From the “global warming and ocean acidification will kill everything, forever” and the “nature always finds a way” department comes this inconvenient truth.
Back From The Dead: Giant Coral Reef That ‘Died’ In 2003 Teeming With Life Again
In 2003, researchers declared Coral Castles dead.
On the floor of a remote island lagoon halfway between Hawaii and Fiji, the giant reef site had been devastated by unusually warm water. Its remains looked like a pile of drab dinner plates tossed into the sea. Research dives in 2009 and 2012 had shown little improvement in the coral colonies.
Then in 2015, a team of marine biologists was stunned and overjoyed to find the giant coral reef once again teeming with life. But the rebound came with a big question: Could the enormous and presumably still fragile coral survive what would be the hottest year on record? This month, the Massachusetts-based research team finished a new exploration of the reefs in the secluded Phoenix Islands, a tiny Pacific archipelago, and were thrilled by what they saw. When they splashed out of an inflatable dinghy to examine Coral Castles closely, they were greeted with a vista of bright greens and purples — unmistakable signs of life. –Karen Weintraub, The New York Times, 15 August 2016
In 1998, a heatwave, which raised ocean temperatures, had caused corals worldwide to go a deathly white – a process called bleaching – and die. The single bleaching event of 1998 killed nearly 16% of the world’s corals. 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. “Sometimes it is really nice to be proven wrong as a scientist, and this was a perfect example of that.” –Jane Palmer, BBC, 6 September 2014
Zombie reef ping
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.
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.
fyi
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.
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!
Mother Nature At Her Best
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.
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.
They are having problems convincing us that /global warning is happening and is our fault!
The reefs must have not read the news that we had the hottest year on record.
Oops.
“Our projections were completely wrong,” he says.
We told you so.
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.
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.”
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.
You need to write an entire book like that.
I’m series.
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