No need to panic just yet, Lytton.

The Reef isn’t going to vanish overnight, and the planet isn’t going to collapse. Parts of the system look vibrant, others are stressed, and the main difference from the past is how often these big bleaching events are now rolling through.

That’s not "doom," it’s just the pattern we’re measuring.

Coral cover does bounce back - you’ll see that if you dive after a few good years. But the problem is, the next hit often comes before full recovery, so you end up with a reef that looks okay at first glance but isn’t as resilient as it appears.

So yes, change is happening faster than in the past, but it doesn’t equal "the end." It means management, not melodrama. Think of it like someone who keeps getting the flu: not dying, but not at their strongest either.

I hope this helps.

Dear me John Daysh, all those words to deny reality. The latest statistics show the Barrier Reef is in rude good health, and why shouldn't it be? Corals like warmer water, and the number of cyclones has dialled down significantly in recent decades, while it turns out that crown of thorns star fish plagues are just a natural response to abundant coral.

The Reef has never been at real risk, and it isn't now. The greatest "risk" is that it will spread further south along with the warmer water. We might get some barrier off the Gold Coast.

Graham,

In amongst all those words of mine are direct rebuttals to the talking points you’ve rehashed. If you’ve got something new, I’ll be glad to address it. But there’s no sense going in circles.

Thanks for another dose of common sense, Graham Young and Lytton. The article from Jennifer Marohasy is also significant in showing how the GBR has been weaponised as a political tool over the years despite actual evidence to the contrary. And yes, reefs are also thriving and growing off the Sunshine Coast as recent surveys have shown.
But if the climate catastrophists are right, it won't be too long before I have a beach right outside our front door rather than a couple of hundred metres away (it's all happening so fast, right?)
Yeah, right.

As if we needed more drive-bys, Mikko2.

You’ve ignored every challenge to your claims, offered no credible counter-data, and are now leaning on a published Texas Sharpshooter fallacy from Marohasy.

If your argument is that climate science is wrong because your local beach hasn’t moved yet… that says more about the argument than the beach.