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63B How saving the reef will cost 6.3 Billion Cost Costing report Final Final report. Reports from the Australian government: 1) "Estimate the costs of undertaking a number management action based solutions sets designed to make significant progress towards the 2025 reef targets (i.e. a 20 per cent reduction in anthropogenic end-of catchment fine sediment loads for Mackay Whitsunday and Burnett Mary with a 50 per cent reduction in the Fitzroy, Burdekin and Wet Tropics catchment by 2025; a 50 per cent reduction in anthropogenic end of-catchment dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) for Mackay Whitsunday and Burnett Mary catchments and an 80 per cent reduction in the Burdekin and Wet Tropics catchments by 2025)" and "The greatest water quality risks to the Reef are: – excess nutrients (especially nitrogen from fertiliser), – fine sediments, and – pesticides." http://web.archive.org/web/20160824045320/http://www.gbr.qld.gov.au/documents/costings-report.pdf (July 2016) http://web.archive.org/web/20160824045320/http://www.gbr.qld.gov.au/documents/gbrwst-finalreport-es-2016.pdf (May 2016) Compare this with Cuba. http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-02/coral-coast-cuba-flourishing-rare-glimmer-hope-threatened-ecosystem “After the Soviets pulled out [in 1991], Cuba couldn't afford fertilizers and pesticides, so they were essentially forced into organic farming — and that's had a beneficial effect on corals,” Guggenheim explains. The result has been far less nutrient pollution in the ocean waters surrounding Cuba. Nutrients in the water do the same thing in the ocean that they do on land: They fuel the growth of plants and algae — and in the ocean those algae overgrow and ultimately kill coral reefs. The other reason Cuba's coral reefs are so healthy is that they have fantastic environmental laws in place, Guggenheim says. Twenty-five percent of their waters are marine protected areas, compared to the worldwide average of about 1 percent. “They are very good stewards of their environment, and I have faith in them to continue that,” he adds. Coral Reefs in the Caribbean have been hit particularly hard. Since 1970, about half of the coral cover in the region has disappeared, including almost 95 percent of the spectacular elkhorn coral. Rising ocean temperatures and pollution cause bleaching in coral, which is usually a death sentence. But even in areas around Cuba where researchers see bleaching, the coral tends to recover — a sign of how healthy the ecosystem is. It's not temperature or acidity killing the coral, it's pollution. Corporations lie and say it's climate. guardian Guardian debunks the dead reef story To it's great credit (remember the "funded journalism"?) The Guardian reported the fact the death of the reef article was nonsense. huffpost1 Pollution is killing the reef, not climate. It has been for 60 years at least. If everyone is so sure the Great Barrier Reef is being killed by climate then why does the plan to fix this consist exclusively of cleaning up water pollution coming from Australian industry and farms? huffpost2 It's not dead. No, the reef was not "declared dead by scientists".

snopes Even Snopes got this right. Sorta. Snopes corrects the death announcement then gets it wrong (again) by not noting the Australian plan is to clean up the pollution that's solely responsible, instead they make vague reference to climate worldwide. Win some, lose time, but that guy does not know the subject well enough to make unsupported statements like this with any authority. spawn 2019 - Coral has successfully reproduced two days in a row for the first time in a lab setting. According to the aquarium, the coral greenhouses use advanced LED technology and computer-control systems to mimic the natural environment of the coral to subtly signal the corals to reproduce. The team started working on the research which initially began in 2014 with the Staghorn coral, but then the focus shifted to pillar coral because of a disease that has been devastating to the Florida Reef Tract. Pillar coral are now classified as almost extinct since the remaining male and female clusters are too far apart to reproduce. "It's quite possible that we just had our last wild spawning of pillar coral this year due to the Stoney Coral Tissue Loss Disease," the aquarium's coral expert Keri O'Neill said. pesticides Great Barrier Reef: scientists find high levels of pesticides and blast chemical regulator Pesticides found in reef catchment include Atrazine, a herbicide banned in 60 countries