The Climate #7: Requiem for a reef
Our coral reefs and other beautiful and productive coastal marine ecosystems are in peril. Can they be saved?
Posts primarily focused on global heating and its consequences on air, land and sea. Principal theme: things are moving more rapidly than the mainstream narratives would have you believe.
2025 August 19 #7: Requiem for a reef
Our coral reefs and other beautiful and productive coastal marine ecosystems are in peril. Can they be saved?
2024 February 29 #6: Blowing through 1.5
What can prior mass extinctions tell us about where we are taking the global life fleet?
2022 April 12 #5: Misdirection
With the Australian Federal Election set for 21 May, what is our Government promising to do about the climate?
2021 December 5 #4: Heading south
Global heating induced water and food shortages mean many people will soon be on the move. How many will move? And where will they go?
2021 November 19 #3: Sea Change?
Are rising sea levels, severe weather and ground water extraction sinking whole cities, posing existential threats to coastal communities?
2021 November 7 #2: Oceans of consequences
What's the prognosis for corals, kelp and seagrass ecosystems facing direct heat, acidification, algal bloom deadzones and overexploitation?
2021 November 2 #1: Baked in
Net Zero emissions won't reduce CO2 in the atmosphere. Do our high atmospheric CO2 level mean more global heating is Baked-In for decades?