Naturally. It was always about Communist China and UN politics. The local pissants are in it for the money as well as the politics.

However, the inching-Left Coalition doesn't inspire confidence in its ability to stand up to the thugs - certainly not under the "leadership" of Morrison. Campbell Newman; John Ruddick : Nicole Flint and George Christiansen, probably just the start of the exodus from the Coalition.

The right - or what's left of it - has to start using fire against fire. People as accustomed to losing as are those of the Australian right need to realise that the point of politics is to win, not just to lose while being jolly good sports. The war is lost at the moment, and the bad guys have won.

Graham's link is paywalled. This is the actual AIMS report....

http://www.aims.gov.au/reef-monitoring/gbr-condition-summary-2020-2021

Thanks mhaze for the link. I read it with interest.
We're told that the GBR "has experienced a low
disturbance year in 2021. There was no prolonged heat
stress, or any cyclones of note and decreased numbers
of crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks."

It appears that the Reef has had a "breather." We're also
told -

"But the GBR remains exposed to the predicted consequences
of climate change including more severs cyclones and more
frequent and intense marine heatwaves."

And -

"The observed recovery has been seen previously and can be
reversed in a short amount of time."

AIMS has warned that the recovery that the GBR is
currently experiencing is likely to be short lived with
the "increasing prominence"of climate-related disturbances.

AIMS Chief Executive Paul Hardisty has said that "The biggest
risk to the reef going forward is climate change."

Research program leader Britta Schaffelke also confirmed
that the latest observations of the GBR did not change a grim
outlook which was delivered by the Institute in 2019.

"The outlook report assessed the future outlok for the
reef to be very poor."

So there we have it - who to believe? Marine scientists
or others. I guess only time will tell. All we can do is
encourage out governments to keep supporting the research.

Those graphs from the AIMS report make compelling reading. The problems cannot be global, they are local enough that even the whole reef is not affected equally. The story is one of local recovery which requires a healthy ecosystem.

Does anyone have access to the data to combine the three graphs and put a trendline through it? Might make a compelling picture for any who will listen to data anymore. (by eye, the reef is healthier than 35 years ago... but we shouldn't trust our eyes).

Regardless of what sort of condition it is in there are no reasons at all to continue trashing it.
The opposite really.
look after it.
Your grandkids might want to see it one day.

Sorry Graham, disagree. I believe this stinks to high heaven as cash for comment? And cofounded by the current video evidence and eyewitness accounts from other scientists who haven't been paid? It also stinks because a great wallop of taxpayer funds went directly to just the one "scientific" body?

In any event, three bleaching events in recent years and during a cyclical waning Phase, tell us this is both unprecedented and shouldn't be happening during said waning phase! Tells us that what is happening is due to denied climate change!

Denied due to overarching vested interest! Advised all you investors some time ago to get out of coal and into Lithium. And had you done so then? Your holdings would have quadrupled by now!

Deny all you will, but it'll do no good, given the days of coal/fossil fuels are seriously numbered! First of all, no new coal mine can get insurance nor investment backing! Nor has the government a mandate to invest the taxpayer dollar in any new coal mine nor new fossil-fueled power plant!

It is said, life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get and the same font of wisdom said and I quote, stupid is what stupid does! And judged on that last comment, an imbecile is somewhat smart than those who deny climate change or our best way to revere it without also tanking the economy! TBC.
Alan B.