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Terry Hughes

5 months

Lethal levels of heat exposure are killing corals along 80% of the length of the Great Barrier Reef, and we have never seen anything like that.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

3 years

I think of this image every time some journalist complains about climate change protesters disrupting traffic…..

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

5 years

I have a lot of friends who can relate to this....

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

2 years

Areas in blue are unsuitable for solar panels.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

4 years

With reduced boat traffic, the canals in Venice have clear water for the first time in living memory.

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2 years

In the Australian state of New South Wales, climate protestors now risk two years in jail if they….. impede the flow of traffic.

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@ProfTerryHughes

5 months

The extent AND severity of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in 2024 is by far the worst ever recorded. It would make you weep (again).

Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

8 years

I showed the results of aerial surveys of #bleaching on the #GreatBarrierReef to my students, And then we wept.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

8 years

I showed the results of aerial surveys of #bleaching on the #GreatBarrierReef to my students, And then we wept.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

4 years

It’s been a shitty, exhausting day on the #GreatBarrierReef . I feel like an art lover wandering through the Louvre....as it burns to the ground.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

5 months

Why isn’t this in the news? Lord Howe Island is another Australian World Heritage Area reeling from anthropogenic climate change.

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@ProfTerryHughes Just back from Lord Howe Island - sad to see the amount of dead coral there.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

4 years

An Australian ecosystem quietly slips away, due to anthropogenic heating. It makes me weep. Without global action on greenhouse gas emissions, the #GreatBarrierReef will soon follow suit. Reef restoration is a smokescreen, designed to buy more time for fossil fuels.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

2 years

We no longer need an El Niño event to trigger mass bleaching of corals, because La Niñas now are hotter than El Niños used to be just 20yrs ago.

Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene

Coral reefs in the present day have less time than in earlier periods to recover from bleaching events.

www.science.org

XR Cambridge

@xr_cambridge

2 years

Cool La Niña years are what hot El Niño years used to be less than 20 years ago

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

6 months

“Unusually warm waters” is the language of climate-change denial. #dontlookup

NBC News

@NBCNews

6 months

Unusually warm waters in the Caribbean Sea are fueling what some scientists say is the region’s worst episode of coral bleaching ever recorded. Some ecologists worry this may be the start of a global bleaching event.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

1 year

Canada (left) and Australia (right) share primitive policies that support the dirtiest fossil fuels. How dumb is that?

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@ProfTerryHughes

1 year

The Surfing Unicorn has deleted their tweet.

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@ProfTerryHughes

1 year

Today, 28 national academies of science: “Natural gas should no longer be considered as a transitional option. All electricity production & heating based on combustion literally fuels global warming, and must be replaced by renewables such as wind, solar, or hydro”

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

@ScienceAcad_swe

1 year

European Scientists on the Future of Gas: We must ban new natural gas boilers at once. @EASACnews new report “Future of Gas” highlights the extremely high global warming potential of largely unrecorded methane leakages along the whole natural gas supply chain.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

5 years

I'm going to go out on a limb here, and declare that mass bleaching of corals and die-offs of kelp during unprecedented hot summers is NOT caused by underwater arsonists or lack of controlled burning of forests.

Sky News Australia

@SkyNewsAust

5 years

A recent Newspoll has found most Australians – 56 per cent – believe the main cause of the recent devastating bushfires was hazard reduction with 35 per cent saying it was due to climate change.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

2 years

In court today - the Australian government argued that they have NO duty of care to protect children from the impacts of climate change. Your kids’ future well-being is less important to this government than new coal mines or more fossil gas.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

3 years

Wrapping a tree in tinfoil, shading coral, underwater fans - these are not solutions to anthropogenic global heating. Reduce emissions now.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

1 year

NOAA’s coral bleaching forecast for the Caribbean this summer is absolutely horrific.

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@ProfTerryHughes

1 year

A coral restoration project in Florida, now tragically destroyed by anthropogenic heating. There is no cure for coral bleaching, only prevention - stop burning fossil fuels.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

1 year

Australia: Regions with a 50% chance of experiencing average temperatures in the next few months are shown in white.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

5 months

Australia is “doing everything we can to save the Reef”, except phasing out fossil fuels.

Guardian Australia

@GuardianAus

5 months

Great Barrier Reef suffering ‘most severe’ coral bleaching on record as footage shows damage 18 metres down

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

1 year

Memo to journalists: Please stop claiming that the clever scientists can re-grow coral reefs, despite escalating anthropogenic heating. (Focus instead on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, curbing fossil fuels & land-clearing). Photo shows a dead coral nursery in Fr. Polynesia

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

11 days

Identical tweets posted at the same time. Supposedly from Canada and Israel. Who pays for this propaganda?

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

3 years

Memo to journalists who feel that a meteor hurtling towards Earth is an inappropriate metaphor for anthropogenic heating…. Please think again….. #DontLookUp

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

6 years

I’m very honoured to receive the Sir John Maddox Prize tonight “for standing up for science”, and for promoting better governance of coral reefs in the face of anthropogenic global warming, in Australia and elsewhere. THANK YOU for your support!

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

5 months

“The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority last week released its latest reef health update with little fanfare, despite shocking figures about the scale of the event. There was no media release”.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

3 years

No, The vast majority of Scientists do NOT support the dangerous Idea of deliberately geoengineering the planet Here’s one of many science articles - on what could possibly go horribly wrong:

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

5 years

Australia: Why isn't the tourism industry more vocal about the existential threat of anthropogenic climate change?

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

3 years

With the stroke of a pen, the endangered #GreatBarrierReef , is NOT listed as endangered. Kicking the can down the road. Denying the scientific evidence.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

2 years

And now we have a leaked map, showing mass coral bleaching in March 2022, along roughly 800km of the #GreatBarrierReef …..

Leonardo DiCaprio

@LeoDiCaprio

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Coral scientist @ProfTerryHughes claims a 6th mass bleaching is unfolding across the #GreatBarrierReef . @UNESCO ’s World Heritage Centre began a monitoring mission to assess if the reef should be added to the World Heritage In Danger list. #SaveOurOcean

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

5 years

Fourteen oil and gas companies including Shell, Occidental Petroleum, BP, Chevron and Halliburton, are funding a website that attacks climate scientists and undermines their work.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

2 years

A coral reef. Notice anything missing?

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

2 years

“Our way of life is at risk” from anthropogenic climate change, not from peaceful protests.

Tamsin Rose

@tamsinroses

2 years

Premier Perrottet backs sentencing of Deanna “Violet” Coco. He says it is “pleasing to see” and warns others against taking part in protests that “inconvenience people”. “If protesters want to put our way of life at risk then they should have the book thrown at them.”

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

3 years

The Coral Sea, between Australia and New Caledonia. Notice anything missing?

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

4 years

We call it winter.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

2 years

Shit, it’s almost like something Global is happening…….

Dave Talltree, son of Wymo. Leilani is the ʻīlio.

@unsc1325

2 years

@EliotJacobson Danube, Rhine, Yangtze, and Colorado rivers

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

6 years

Scientists are people too. Watching coral reefs dwindle worldwide is emotionally draining - deep sorrow, frustration at the complacency, lies and inaction...and a touch of rage.

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@natashaloder

6 years

Terry Hughes marine biologist and winner of this year’s John Maddox Prize was close to tears when describing the devastation of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. #wakeuptoclimatechange

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

4 years

As if Australia has the luxury of waiting 30 years.

Josh Aitken

@joshaitken

4 years

Nationals leader, Michael McCormack, declaring he is “not worried about what might happen in 30 years’ time”. What is wrong with him? Why does he think this is a smart thing to say? Sack the shortsighted lot of them. You can’t farm a dead earth. #auspol

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

4 years

Did anyone notice just ONE senior Australian politician taking ANY notice of the continuing rapid decline of our national icon , due to anthropogenic heating? ⁦

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

3 years

A gentle reminder that these photos from Australia were NOT taken via a time-machine in 2050. #QandA

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@ProfTerryHughes

3 years

With the release of the next #IPCC report just two hours away, please set aside a moment to contemplate how humanity has already radically changed the face of our planet. There is no planet B.

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5 months

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@ProfTerryHughes

4 years

When it comes to climate action, Australia’s lack of climate policy has become an international embarrassment - ranked worst of 57 countries.

Australia ranked worst of 57 countries on climate change policy

Thinktank report deems Morrison government ‘an increasingly regressive force’

www.theguardian.com

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@ProfTerryHughes

2 years

Spanish police arrest scientists in Madrid protesting against inaction on anthropogenic climate change. @XRebellionAus

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@ProfTerryHughes

2 years

For the first time in recorded history, corals on the #GreatBarrierReef are bleaching and dying during La Niña conditions. No government Minister had acknowledged this milestone. Not even an after-5pm Friday press release. Silence.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

4 months

This is a very sick, bleached brain-coral on the reef flat at Heron Island, 2 weeks ago. It was the sole surviving colony of this species that I could find. The rest died when sea temperatures on the reef flat reached 34C.

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4 years

I’m not sure why they call coral reefs “the canary in the coal mine”...... Every ecosystem on the planet is reeling from anthropogenic climate change.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

6 years

Scientists can re-seed THIS amount of the #GreatBarrierReef with 1 or 2 coral species, for about a million bucks a pop. Or, we could leave fossil fuels in the ground.

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@ProfTerryHughes

21 days

The iconic Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, is now ecologically extinct on the Florida Keys.

NOAA Fish Southeast

@NOAAFisheriesSE

23 days

All that remains: @NOAAFisheries published results of the 2023 marine heatwave’s impacts on #ElkhornCoral genetic diversity in #Florida . Our report states that only 23 percent of known genotypes remain in the wild. #NOAASoutheastScience #coral #coralreefs

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Terry Hughes

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4 months

I think about the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef every day. Scientists have been documenting the decline for decades, but not enough people listened. Our children and grandchildren have been robbed of their inheritance.

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We're heartbroken. My husband and I snorkled the stunning coral reefs of world famous Heron Island regularly. Our kids & grandkids never will.

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@ProfTerryHughes

4 years

It is impossible to "restore" nature to anything remotely resembling the past. Once it's gone, it's gone forever - prevention is better than cure.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

8 months

If you’re looking for a fresh reason to boycott the climate-change-denying Murdoch press. - here it is:

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

2 months

A coal mine is on fire in Australia. Again. And ABC News completely forgot to mention greenhouse gas emissions, or anthropogenic climate change.

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

3 years

In Australia, you can bring a gallows to Parliament House, and the PM will understand your frustration. If you try to block a coal train, you could end up in jail for 25 years.

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Terry Hughes

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4 years

Important Memo to journalists re Magical Recovery: When a 10 year old wombat, 50 year old gum tree, or 100 year old coral dies - from climate extremes due to anthropogenic heating - THEY DO NOT RECOVER a few months later.

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5 years

Has anyone actually seen a plastic straw underwater on the #GreatBarrierReef ? After 34 years of reef diving - I still haven’t found ONE. Banning straws while approving new coal mines is utter madness.

Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

5 years

Declining Coral replenishment on the #GreatBarrierReef comparing before (a) and after (b) mass mortality of adult brood stock in 2016 & 2017, due to global heating. Blue wedge is brooders, yellow is spawners, showing a shift in species composition.

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2 years

The defining image of Australia’s (former) Prime Minister.

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@ProfTerryHughes

3 years

“For too long, a succession of Australian prime ministers have hidden behind the big lie that you can protect the #GreatBarrierReef without rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions from burning coal, oil and gas”

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef should be listed as ‘in danger,’ U.N. body says

The world’s largest coral ecosystem is under threat from climate change.

www.washingtonpost.com

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3 years

Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister, today: “We haven't got a replacement (for exporting coal) to maintain your standard of living, if that is lost."

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5 years

Australia fires: coal industry causes long-term damage as bushfires cost businesses billions. Thermal coal mining employs 38,000 people in Australia. Tourism employs 924,000.

The business case against coal

As businesses confront billions of dollars in losses from the bushfires, there is much more at stake for Australia than its coal industry.

www.smh.com.au

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Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

5 months

If you look carefully, you’ll find ONE location across the vast southern Great Barrier Reef that is coloured blue It’s the only tiny spot where heat exposure didn’t exceed the 4 Degree Heating Weeks threshold that triggers coral bleaching. We’ve never seen bleaching like this.

Jez Roff

@JezRoff

5 months

The 2024 mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef in numbers (preliminary analysis): - 46% of reefs experienced record high DHW - new record of 17.7 DHW from the southern GBR - 37% of the GBR has been exposed to three or more >6DHW events in the past decade (1/n)

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1 year

We’re rapidly running out of time to save the world’s coral reefs from anthropogenic heating. A tragic update from Florida, whose Republican Governor refuses to acknowledge the urgency of reducing greenhouse gas pollution…..

Liv Williamson, Ph.D.

@livwilliamson

1 year

Sad update from North Dry Rocks in Key Largo: On 8/28, we found all staghorn & elkhorn #coral severely bleached & dying. There are no longer any “winners” that have escaped, & I expect all will die in the next several weeks. I can’t believe they spawned just a few weeks ago 🥺

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4 years

A spectacular coral colony, centuries old. We need to protect these beauties, because no-one will ever “restore” them.

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4 years

A few months after deadly bushfires and mass bleaching of corals: “Scott Morrison's decision to spurn the UN climate summit for a Trump rally”

Scott Morrison's decision to spurn the UN climate summit for a Trump rally

Scott Morrison enthusiastically shared the stage at a Trump rally in Ohio rather than attend the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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@ProfTerryHughes

2 years

Plan B for coral reefs - emissions-intensive concrete blocks with juvenile fish.

Coastal Ecology and Conservation Lab

@AllgeierLab

2 years

The artificial reefs we built 6 months ago in Little Abaco are loaded with white grunts, lobster, and more!

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@ProfTerryHughes

4 months

An aging marine biologist inspects a giant old coral that’s fighting for its life due to anthropogenic heating. Surrounding it are stands of recently dead and dying staghorn corals, for as far as the eye can see. This is what mass-mortality looks like.

Lisa Cox

@_LisaMCox

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Great Barrier Reef's worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard

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1 year

No, Australia, new coal mines and gas fields do NOT “stack up environmentally”.

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3 years

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1 month

The Great Barrier Reef is the size of 70 million football fields. The total area of coral reef partially “restored” globally over the past 30 years is about 3-4 football fields, and it has cost a fortune.

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Scientists are making huge advances in restoring the Great Barrier Reef.

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4 years

Those photos of fires and smoke in CA, OR and WA are just shocking, just like NSW, VIC, QLD, TAS,.... and Portugal, Greece, Siberia, Chile.... Almost like something global is underway.

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4 years

This article is a disgrace, @abcnews , worthy of Murdoch’s propaganda. How can you report on “shifting weather” without even mentioning the anthropogenic causes, or the imperative of reducing emissions?

Australia's weather is shifting. This is how it will affect our summers

With the latest biannual report on the climate observing "a more tangible shift in the extremes", questions are emerging about what the summers of the future may hold.

www.abc.net.au

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5 years

#GreatBarrierReef : More than half of the corals died on red reefs, in two consecutive summers with record-breaking heat. The solution isn't building new coalmines, expanding fracking, underwater fans, or banning plastic straws. Cut emissions.

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Another silver medal for Australia…..

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2 years

No, they are not.

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5 months

The Australian government has quietly released the map of mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef this summer, confirming that the 5th event in just 8 years is the most severe & the most widespread ever. This time, only the far north has escaped.

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2 years

What do these people think the picture shows? (Hint: a heat-stressed coastal reef, with bleached corals, excess macro-algae, and poor water quality).

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“A record marine heatwave” is misleading language that normalises ongoing anthropogenic heating. “worrying damage” doesn’t convey the loss of hundreds of millions of corals along 75% of the world’s largest coral reef system. Please listen to the marine biologist….

7NEWS Townsville

@7NewsTownsville

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Vision below the Great Barrier Reef has uncovered some worrying damage caused by a record marine heatwave. A marine biologist has labelled the bleaching event 18 metres below the surface the worst she's ever seen. @MacbethChanelle #7NEWS

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The Great Barrier Reef is suffering its worst mass bleaching and mortality event ever this year, due to anthropogenic heating. And THIS is the Australian government’s response:

The Saturday Paper

@SatPaper

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The Albanese government will today release a plan to ramp up gas extraction and use beyond 2050, in defiance of global calls to phase out fossil fuels.

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2 years

It’s bizarre how climate change deniers tweeting this photo today don’t realise that it shows a very degraded coral reef, suffering from heat stress.

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3 years

The graphic that’s missing from the report to @UNESCO .

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Washington Post: “The influence of fossil fuel lobbies in Australia is comparable to that of the National Rifle Association in the United States.”

Opinion | Australia’s catastrophic fires are a moment of reckoning for Murdoch’s media empire

Australia offers a grim warning for the United States.

www.washingtonpost.com

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4 years

Iconic images that highlight the failure of Australia’s politicians to address anthropogenic heating #4corners

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3 years

Breaking news - Australian government announces $500m grant to mysterious NGO to breed flame-proof koalas. “With the right investment, we can make climate-resilient koalas, and still export fossil fuels across the #GreatBarrierReef ”, a spokesperson said.

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3 years

Australia’s agriculture is based on a climate that doesn’t exist anymore.

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5 months

Memo to journalists trying to spin a good-news study: Coral restoration fails if you don’t first address the causes of environmental decline.

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4 months

NOAA didn’t say “may”.

BBC News India

@BBCIndia

4 months

More than 60% of coral reefs around the world may have bleached over the past year due to heat stress as a result of climate change according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Corals in the Atlantic Ocean have been hit hardest. Source: Reuters

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1 year

Moving deckchairs on the Titanic, didn't "buy time" because the ship was doomed from the moment its hull was breached. So can someone explain to me why Australia's promotion of coral reef restoration can "buy time", while anthropogenic heating, new coal & gas, remain unchecked?

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2 years

I’ll be offline for a little while, checking out the marine life on a beautiful, remote island in the Pacific.

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3 years

Why isn't there a climate scientist on the panel?

QandA

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3 years

On Thursday, Q+A is looking at our climate policy as international pressure mounts on Australia to lower emissions. Head to the #QandA website to submit a question, or register to join the studio audience in Sydney:

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4 years

I'm not sure I have the fortitude to do this again. It's heartbreaking to see the #GreatBarrierReef decline so fast.

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5 years

"Ventolin" is trending in Australia.

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4 years

If Koala’s could vote, they wouldn’t chose “a gas-led recovery”.

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3 years

It will be voters, not scientists, who come up with a solution to climate change.

SBS News

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3 years

It will be scientists, not politicians, who come up with the solution to climate change, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has told assembled world leaders at COP26.

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3 years

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It’s only mid-May, but sea temperatures in parts of the Caribbean are now exceeding the long-standing summer maximum. It’s already nearly 3C hotter than average. Mass coral bleaching and mortality in 2024 is already shaping up to rival or exceed 2023.

Terry Hughes

@ProfTerryHughes

1 year

A coral restoration project in Florida, now tragically destroyed by anthropogenic heating. There is no cure for coral bleaching, only prevention - stop burning fossil fuels.

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Terry Hughes

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I’m in Melbourne today - it’s 44C, and the power has failed. It’s remarkable to think we still have a PM who brought a lump of coal into parliament. via @ABCNews

Cool change hits Melbourne after 42C day as power is restored across state

Nearly all Victorian customers affected by rolling blackouts have got their power back, after Melbourne's hottest day in five years placed "unanticipated levels of demand" on the grid.

www.abc.net.au

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Terry Hughes

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Great Barrier Reef: As we leave summer behind, the 5th mass coral bleaching in 8 years has reached its climax. Hundreds of millions of corals have already died. Now we wait to see the final toll over coming months. Pics from the far north, last week.

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