is it HOT ENOUGH yet?, page-52

Before the authority’s previous outlook report in 2019, the reef was hit with mass coral bleaching events in 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017. In the five years since then, there were three mass bleaching events – in 2020, 2022 and summer 2024

Poiner said “urgent national and global action” to reduce warming was the only way to limit the escalating effects of climate change. Bleaching events are now occurring so frequently that the corals have less time to recover

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