This is another crock from the global warmers' collection of scare templates.

It works like this:

"Unless we [do something that involves giving lots of money to people like this author] there will be [insert desired fantasy catastrophe] and we will leave a devastated world for our children."

The scam's been exposed. Give up. Find another gravy train.

KenH, You being an expert will be able to point out errors in the report.
Until you do then your posting is meaningless.

PeterA,

The author's own comments describe the historical scare stories.

The Crown-of-Thorns starfish scare back in the 1960s claimed that the starfish would destroy the GBR. They didn't. But research funds were poured into the "problem".

Farm run-offs were the next generation of scare. The GBR's still there.

And the "global warming" scare in relation to the reef has produced only a generation of marine biologists working as waiters in Cairns.

And, of course, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg's regular predictions of imminent disaster, followed by his "not as bad as expected" admissions.

The number of believers in the fake religion of global warming is falling all around the world for very good reason. Scammers have been confronted with reality, in which no catastrophic warming is occurring. Governments have spent hundreds of billions for 30 years and none of the beneficiaries have been able to come up with anything that is mildly persuasive, let alone conclusive.

Have you been paying attention? Climategate,the hockey stick, the doctoring of temperature data, the careful selection of sites from which data is collected and all the other scams have finally caught up with the true believers.

KenH

All the points that you have raised have been totally investigated and dismissed you just have not caught up with it yet (if ever).

Again where are your sources.

Have you read 'The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism'? or are you going to dismiss it out of hand or do you have some constructive criticism, if so the author would love to hear from you.

I can remember when I was at school. The GBR was in danger then. Marine scientists were predicting the reef would be dead by the year 2000! Now at the age of 54 I am hearing it all again. I agree that reef ecosystem is fragile but it obviously is not as fragile as some would have us believe. "researching the effects of climate change on reefs" does not sound to me like a sound scientific proposition.

Peter, you only require 2 references to know it all about global warming.

One is "Hide the decline" a reference to a con man, & the other is, "It is a travesty that we can't explain it", referring to the lack of warming for 10 years at that time.

Just those 2, among thousands, are adequate to see the character of the AGW "scientists".