New Research Documents The Lack Of Any Net Decline In GBR Coral Cover Since The 1980s

New Research Documents The Lack Of Any Net Decline In GBR Coral Cover Since The 1980s

The bleaching and heat stress narrative that says rising CO2 is an existential threat to coral reef habitat has not been realized. Since reliable monitoring began 40 years ago, scientists (Ceccarelli et al., 2026) provide graphical evidence there has been no significant overall net change in coral cover throughout the Northern, Central, and Southern Great Barrier Reef (GBR). In the last 15 years of widely varying trajectories of coral reef repre…

Coral Cover Data Sparks Debate: Does a Resilient Great Barrier Reef Disprove Climate Science?

A front-page story this week seized on official government data showing coral cover across the Great Barrier Reef remains substantial, framing it as proof that predictions of the reef’s demise from global heating have been overblown. An accompanying editorial went further, suggesting the reef’s “continued good health” demonstrated that “physics rather than the pseudo-religion of climate change doom still holds sway over the natural order.” Marin…