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UNDERWATER BUSHFIRE - VIBRANT GREAT BARRIER REEF FADING TO A SHADOW OF ITS FORMER GLORY

19 Mar 2024

More than 90 percent of the excess heat stored in our climate system due to The abrupt changes underway on the Great climate pollution has been absorbed by the ocean Barrier Reef portend even greater dangers, and the (IPCC 2019) and this is driving an extraordinary rise possibility of crossing points of no return in our in sea surface temperatures. [...] The last global mass bleaching event of coral reefs ran from 2014 to 2017, when the Great Barrier Reef At the time of writing, the latest daily bleaching alert lost nearly a third of its corals. [...] and other tropical coral reefs worldwide is a clear example of how climate pollution is the biggest threat The world has already over-heated by around 1.2°C, to human societies and the ecosystems we depend and is likely to surpass 1.5°C of global warming on for our health, wellbeing and survival. [...] The number after RCP refers to the amount of ‘radiative forcing’ – a measure of the change in the energy balance in the atmosphere due to greenhouse gas emissions. [...] This includes at risks of crossing further tipping points in the climate least five since the last mass bleaching of the Great system and gets us closer to a brighter, safer future Barrier Reef and the election of the current Federal for all Australians.
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