Never trust the climate-grifters or the morons in media!-----Reef Madness: A Baseless Coral Panic - WSJ

The Great Barrier shrank over the past year but was bigger than ever in 2024. - Bjorn Lomborg

You might have gotten the impression that the Great Barrier Reef—the aquatic wonder off Australia’s coast—is in grave peril. 

• Last month, headlines shouted in unison: Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral decline on record. Environmental journalists paint a picture of immense devastation driven by climate change.

The truth is much less alarming. 

Australian scientists have meticulously tracked the reef’s coral cover since 1986...

The data show that the reef was mostly stable until 2000, then began declining, and by 2012 it had shrunk to less than half its original cover.

• But then the reef started growing. 
• It rebounded spectacularly...
• By 2021 coral cover was higher than it had been since measurements began. 
• It increased further, staying at unprecedentedly high levels in 2022 and 2023. 
• The coral grew more still in 2024...