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09/12/19

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Originally posted by bellcurve ↑

well credentialed environmentalist Imogen Zethoven says contrary to rumours the Great Barrier Reef is definitely not dead and remains spectacular, worth seeing and worth protecting.

but judgment by a UN committee overseeing its World Heritage Area listing on actions taken by the Australian and Queensland govt to protect the reef is scheduled for mid 2020.

Zethoven explains the process in an essay published Saturday in John Menadue’s Pearls & Irritations weekly. Zethoven is an Australian environmentalist who has worked on Australian and global ocean health for nearly 30 years. She currently works for the Australian Marine Conservation Society on the ocean climate nexus with a focus on the Great Barrier Reef

the essay is entitled “Judgement Day for the Great Barrier Reef is Looming” and starts as follows.

“Recently I was talking to a political insider in Canberra who told me he’d heard on numerous occasions at dinner parties that tragically the Great Barrier Reef is dead.

”The Reef is definitely not dead. Yes, there are conflicting messages about its state, but it is still spectacular, it is still worth seeing and it is still worth investing every ounce of effort to protect it.

”These days the onset of summer brings the dread of a severe marine heatwave that could bleach and kill corals across a vast area. In our 1-degree warmer world, scientists now gather annually in Townsville to pool data on the likelihood of another severe coral bleaching event as happened in 2016 and 2017.

“Fortunately, a widespread and severe event this summer is not forecast at this point. Some coral bleaching is however, considered a possibility. This now appears to be the new normal, the best case, as against a spike of extreme heat with deadly consequences for corals.

“Many Australians are rightly upset about the state of the Reef and despairing or angry about the lack of any serious action by the federal government to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions – the Reef’s existential threat. Yet judgement day is looming. As a World Heritage Area, the condition and management of the Great Barrier Reef is overseen by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee.

”The Committee is meeting in Fuzhou, China in July 2020 and will be reviewing Australian and Queensland Government actions to protect the Reef, as well as Tasmania’s Wilderness World Heritage Area. Australia is one of 21 countries on the Committee but countries whose sites are being assessed are not permitted to intervene in discussions and decisions about their own sites. Of course what happens behind the scenes can be and often is quite different.

”The Committee requested a report from the Australian Government by 1 December 2019 on the state of conservation of the Reef. The Government duly sent the report on time. Essentially, the Committee will assess one thing: is the State Party – the Australian Government – protecting or restoring the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the Great Barrier Reef.

”The Reef’s OUV was defined almost 40 years ago in the original nomination document to inscribe the Reef on the World Heritage List. The original nomination document is a joy to read. It describes a vast and beautiful ecosystem in large part pristine, but affected by some local disturbances. It is one of the richest and most complex natural systems on Earth. The amazing diversity of life throughout the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem supports tens of thousands of marine and terrestrial species, many of which are of global conservation significance.

“No other World Heritage site contains such biodiversity. The 2,500 individual reefs and 900 islands provide some of the most spectacular maritime scenery in the world, above and below the water.”

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"Many Australians are rightly upset about the state of the Reef and despairing or angry about the lack of any serious action by the federal government to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions – the Reef’s existential threat. Yet judgement day is looming. As a World Heritage Area, the condition and management of the Great Barrier Reef is overseen by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee."

More ideological and political blah blah masquerading as climate science.
What is your scientific evidence that "any serious action by the federal government to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions " will affect the great barrier reef .. or bushfires .. or droughts or floods or koala bears.

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