(WATTS UP WITH THAT) – Former JCU Marine Physicist Peter Ridd says the Great Barrier Reef is now experiencing “record high coral cover.”
“This is data that’s been accumulated over a little while now and it shows … it’s actually at record high coral cover,” he told Sky News Australia. “We’ve got more coral on the Great Barrier Reef now than we did when records began in 1985. … We’ve got twice as much coral as we had after huge cyclones went through the reef in about 2011 and 2012, and this record-high coral cover is despite supposedly having three catastrophic unprecedented bleaching events in just the last five years.
