Posted on 10/15/2016 10:51:43 AM PDT by EveningStar
Dead and dying are two very different things.
If a person is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, their loved ones don't rush to write an obituary and plan a funeral. Likewise, species aren't declared extinct until they actually are.
In a viral article entitled "Obituary: Great Barrier Reef (25 Million BC-2016)," however, writer Rowan Jacobsen proclaimed ― inaccurately and, we can only hope, hyperbolically ― that Earth's largest living structure is dead and gone.
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Great barrier reef
Yep, I see the importance.
This article total and utter scaremongering nonsense. The Australian Government has split the 2300 km long Great Barrier Reef into 4 sections. The most northerly one has been stressed by one or more factors that might possibly include increased sea temperature. The two most southerly sections are seen as healthy and growing.
http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/media-room/coral-bleaching
To the ones that are government-funded, perhaps? Working to keep this two million-visitors-a-year tourist attraction's reputation intact?
He has written books about oysters, and chocolate, and about edible things you can find underground.
He has for some reason been selected by the elites for special recognition, in the form of grants, and fellowships. That's about it.
The 25 million year old reef is BS too. There might have been some reef structure there for a long time, but over that period there have been thousands of die offs and restructurings.
To add to my previous post. The watermelons love to insinuate that everything is millions of years old to advance the claim that the earth was static before human interference. I was reading a boating magazine once that claimed we needed to help the great lakes because we were interfering with a millions year old ecosystem. Of course the great lakes were formed when the last ice age ended and the glaciers melted back over the mid west. Same thing with the redwood forests, claiming that they weren’t formed after the last ice age is asinine, climate changes
What did they use: Controlled nuclear detonations?
Regards,
We visited Queensland this summer, and saw lots of pretty and colorful coral on the GBR. I guess we must have imagined it all. Maybe we also imagined the kangaroos, koalas and wallabies. I know we didn’t imagine the credit card bill.
I agree, at the height of the last Ice Age, just about every one of today’s coral reefs were SOLID GROUND! Today’s Florida peninsula is less than half the size that it was back then and the Keys did not even exist as such!
This has to be the 50th time I’ve heard this in the past 30 years of my life.
The ocean is amazing. I live part time in Hawaii. I love to go snorkelling. Once in a while you swim past a tire or a shopping cart (yes people will take shopping carts out in to the reef just to toss them in). Within a year it is unrecognizable. It is covered with algae, corals, and there’s a bunch of fish living among the rubbish.
The Great Barrier Reef was high and dry for thousands, likely TENS OF THOUSANDS of years. While the timeline isn’t exactly spelled out in this article, it appears that the reef’s normal state is, OUT OF THE WATER.
IT KEEPS COMING BACK! All by itself. (”eh hmm, maybe not by itself”, God)
“Professor Webb said rising sea levels inundated the current continental shelf of Queensland after the end of the last great Ice Age (around 18,000 years ago).”
“Before that, what is now the Great Barrier Reef was high and dry and consisted of a series of limestone tablelands complete with trees, grasses and soils,” he said.”
“Importantly, the research is not only unlocking the history of modern reef growth, but we were able to recover soils from the interval when the reefs were exposed, and below that, even more ancient reef rock (about 120,000-130,000 years old) from the last time the shelf was flooded.”
https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/10/using-past-predict-future-of-great-barrier-reef
Should we be all in a tizzy, worrying about The Great Barrier Reef?
Matthew 6: (NIV)
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?”
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
Profound wisdom from Jesus Christ Himself.
note about verse 33,
Most importantly, NOT FOR EVERYONE, Only for HIS children.
Anyone can be a child of God, by repenting, believing/accepting Him, and asking for his forgiveness.
It’s called evolution.
If the Great Barrier Reef is dead, there is no point spending any more money or resources on it. The Australian taxpayers ought to be able to save a ton of money.
Probably a pencil or felt-tip marker!
LOL! I noticed that too. :)
And England wasn’t an island...
Every time I read through another piece of this eco-nazi drivel and see some quote attributed to a “manager” of some natural resource or other, I take a little drive down to Yellowstone and reflect on the absolute CHARLEY FOXTROT all those whiz kids have wrought on that place.
...and then how the joint just seems to rebuild itself in spite of their sorry a$$es.
Gotta be some very special warm corner of hell reserved for those malignant jerks. After all the times I’ve been told that I’m going there, I may just apply for a job as stoker for ‘em.
But is Mooch horrified?
71% approval rating and all, so we must know, right?
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