A good read.... We’ll all be rooned! If not this century, then sometime in the next couple of millennia CUT & PASTE THE AUSTRALIAN MARCH 11, 2014 12:00AM THERE is always lots to celebrate on RN Breakfast: drought, destruction, extinction. RN Breakfast, Thursday: FRAN Kelly: Now the winners of our Gold and the Incas challenge … Your task was to imagine an artwork that represents the lost world of 20th-century Australia … Our ACT winner … wrote, my artwork would be a hologram explaining the genius of 20th-century Australia and why it became a lost world … the final hologram would depict David Karoly who warned about the catastrophic potential of unchecked climate change. Robyn Williams: And so to Queensland, and our winner ... can see a film with … the next major extinction event … the Barrier Reef. A complete film recording of the whole Barrier Reef … that, like Wagner’s Ring Cycle, goes for hours … It is Australia’s treasure worth more than coal that we are squandering. Kelly: The Ring Cycle. Ambitious. I like that. Go for it, think big. Er. Coal or crown of thorns starfish? Australian Institute of Marine Science, October 2, 2012: THE Great Barrier Reef has lost half its coral cover … The loss was due to storm damage (48 per cent), crown of thorns starfish (42 per cent) and bleaching (10 per cent). No, it’s climate change! Peter Hannam, The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday: THE Great Barrier Reef will be irreversibly damaged by climate change in just 16 years … increased carbon dioxide concentrations contribut(ed) about 10 per cent … climate change, though, is fast taking over as the main threat. Australian Institute of Marine Science, October 2, 2012: IN the northern Great Barrier Reef coral cover has remained relatively stable. “The study shows that in the absence of crown of thorns, coral cover would increase at 0.89 per cent per year, so even with losses due to cyclones and bleaching there should be slow recovery.
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