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By P Gosselin on 9. November 2025
Klimaschau 235, presented by the Germany-based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) analyzes the new “Global Tipping Points Report 2025” and puts the alarmist reports into perspective. Just in time for the 30th UN World Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil, the second “Global Tipping Points Report 2025” was presented by around 100 scientists, […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 28. October 2025
Another alarmist narrative debunked by observations. Coral coverage was supposed to be existentially devastated by the modern tenths-of-a-degree increases in sea surface temperatures and recurring bleaching events. However, a new study points to assessments of coral cover percentages in the Great Barrier Reef and concludes is “at its highest since monitoring began in 1985.” Further, […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 19. August 2025
New research from Indonesia indicates that from about 10,000 to 6000 years ago, when the ocean was warmer than today, coral reef growth was rapid, averaging ~6 mm per year. Sea levels rose rapidly from the Early to Mid Holocene in this region, as they were up to 2 m higher than today 6000 years […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 3. April 2025
Coral reefs expand and thrive as sea levels rise, whereas they undergo millennia of growth hiatuses and “turn-off” or “mass mortality” phases when sea levels fall. According to a new global sea level reconstruction (Feldman et al., 2025), global sea levels were meters higher than today 7000 to 5000 years ago. Global sea levels fell […]
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By P Gosselin on 2. April 2025
German language RTV here reports: All the talk in the media of a dying Great Barrier coral reef near Australia is “a media swindle”. Symbol image, provided by Grok AI The facts: Record numbers of coral reefs were already measured in 2024 and the coverage has indeed tripled over the last 12 years. According to […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 19. August 2024
A new study dispels the claim that coral reefs are at risk from modern environmental changes or rates. From about 8000 to 6000 years ago the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) relative sea levels were ~2 meters higher and seas were rising at rates of ~6 to 7 meters per millennium (6-7 mm/yr). The Early Holocene […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 21. December 2023
Warmer sea surface temperatures are associated with coral growth, not decline. According to a new study, coral growth was slow during the ~1°C colder Little Ice Age (LIA), but grew rapidly as sea surface temperatures (SSTs) warmed after 1850. Warmth is associated with coral growth, whereas colder SSTs are linked to growth rate decline. “The […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 28. August 2023
Scientists report a surprising coral reef resilience to bleaching, as well as a growing 0.1°C per decade heat stress tolerance. The Great Barrier Reef region has reportedly warmed by 0.8°C in the last 150 years (Page et al., 2023). This is warming rate of about 0.05°C per decade. Scientists (Lachs et al., 2023) are now […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 24. February 2022
Corals thrive in multiple-degrees-warmer-than-today waters and their growth is stunted in cooler environments. The warnings peddled by climate alarmists often characterize Earth’s 500 billion corals as critically endangered by modern global warming. But the science itself says corals have been and continue thriving in the Current Warm Period – just as they have in past […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 14. February 2022
In 2021, several hundred more scientific papers were published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise serve to question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and mainstream media sources. These scientific papers affirm the position […]
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By P Gosselin on 10. December 2021
A German analysis finds that the threatening scenarios about the imminent death of all coral reefs in a recent study cannot be justified. ==================================================== The corals off East Africa, doomed to extinction? By Frank Bosse Kalte Sonne (Translated, edited by P. Gosselin) An agency report startles readers: “All coral reefs in the western Indian Ocean […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 2. December 2021
For decades Great Barrier Reef (GBR) warming and coral bleaching have often been assumed to be driven by human greenhouse gas emissions and/or El Niño events. But a new study finds a much larger and more robust correlation between natural cloud cover modulation of solar radiation, shallow-water warming, and bleaching. It has taken over 260 […]
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