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Like the climate deniers we have another non climate scientist, non fire-related person and likely one nation supporter provide their views about who is responsible for the fires. The logic of this guys argument has won me over:
Gods punishment for same sex marriage and abortion
Reports of the demise of the Great Barrier reef, to mangle a Mark Twain quote, appear to have been exaggerated.
The below from the Port Douglas news
The Great Barrier Reef exploded with life over the weekend thanks to the annual mass coral spawning and early reports suggest it was the biggest event in recent years.
The coral spawning, which typically occurs on the Reef in the week following the November full moon, sees coral polyps simultaneously release egg and sperm bundles into the ocean for fertilisation giving rise to millions of next-generation coral babies.
Reef Bio Research Manager at Quicksilver Port Douglas, Russel Hore, said coral spawning is a significant event for the reef.
“It is vitally important that it occurs to get genetic diversity across the corals,” he said.
“It also allows for species distribution around the reef, because corals can’t walk around so this is the best way different corals can move around the reef and settle in spare spaces.”
Mr Hore added that the conditions in the lead up to the spawning have been ideal even allowing for daytime spawning, which is unusual as the event often occurs at night.
“We are pretty confident that we may see a second spawning in December,” he said.
You might be waiting a while to read the Port Douglas tourist news announcing that it’s a great time to visit Melbourne because the coral’s dead. Do you have a viable source or were you just engaging in a little self-mockery?
I've been to Port Douglas heaps of times, snorkeled every time and speak to the people up there. I get email alerts from the Port Douglas news.
I didn't seek out a link to prove a point, I got the article read it and shared it. I guess you won't see it in the Guardian any time soon though, it doesn't comply with their agenda.
Have you ever snorkeled the reef?
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
stui magpie wrote:I've been to Port Douglas heaps of times, snorkeled every time and speak to the people up there. I get email alerts from the Port Douglas news.
I didn't seek out a link to prove a point, I got the article read it and shared it. I guess you won't see it in the Guardian any time soon though, it doesn't comply with their agenda.
Have you ever snorkeled the reef?
Funny, all and I mean every local including boat tour operators were lamenting how bad it is now (coral, the reef etc) when I was in Port Douglas last year (September 2018)
“I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman
stui magpie wrote:I didn't seek out a link to prove a point, I got the article read it and shared it. I guess you won't see it in the Guardian any time soon though, it doesn't comply with their agenda.
Is there any suggestion that it's actually newsworthy? An annual coral spawning event, even a relatively big one, doesn't necessarily suggest anything about long-term trends; what would be newsworthy is if it suggests that the forecast may be better than feared.
As an analogy, Siberian tigers keep getting born, but an unusually large litter is a Channel 7 cute-animal news story at best; if it doesn't actually indicate that they're becoming slightly less endangered, then I don't see why any serious newspaper would cover it.
"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
stui magpie wrote:I didn't seek out a link to prove a point, I got the article read it and shared it. I guess you won't see it in the Guardian any time soon though, it doesn't comply with their agenda.
Is there any suggestion that it's actually newsworthy? An annual coral spawning event, even a relatively big one, doesn't necessarily suggest anything about long-term trends; what would be newsworthy is if it suggests that the forecast may be better than feared.
As an analogy, Siberian tigers keep getting born, but an unusually large litter is a Channel 7 cute-animal news story at best; if it doesn't actually indicate that they're becoming slightly less endangered, then I don't see why any serious newspaper would cover it.
But a fire or hot day does ... geez, I just wanna punch a hole in a wall sometimes!
... geez, I just wanna punch a hole in a wall sometimes!