American reacts to Australia's Coral Sea Islands



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38 thoughts on “American reacts to Australia's Coral Sea Islands”

  1. this f'wit is an activist. oil spills are frequent, er no. coral bleaching happens naturally with ocean current changes, whole reefs can be damaged by cyclones and recover also normal.
    the great barrier reef is 348,700 square kilometres, to put that in perspective indiana is 94,000 square kilometres. most of the reef is rarely visited by humans.

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  2. Guano is bird shite, in this case seabird. One of the richest small islands in the Pacific Northeast of Australia, called Nauru, was/is a major exporter of bird shit and nothing else!!! Fabulous fertiliser . (It also was used by the past Australian conservative government as an internment camp for 'illegal aliens'. A political expediency and not a proud moment)

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  3. Guano (Spanish from Quechua: wanu) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats. Guano is a highly effective fertilizer due to its high content of nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium, all key nutrients essential for plant growth. Guano was also, to a lesser extent, sought for the production of gunpowder and other explosive materials.

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  4. As the old saying goes: – this bloke should have 'saved his breath to cool his porridge'. He somehow made one of the most beautiful areas of the world seem boring – quite the achievement. Growing up in Papua New Guinea we would pack up our small boats on a Friday evening and go and claim one of the hundreds of deserted islands for the weekend…it was idyllic. And some of the adventures we had – getting trapped at sea in tropical storms, having the tiller break off on the way back, sails tearing, stumbling across an island which had brought over an entire bar for the next day which we had to ourselves!

    The soft, white sand; snorkelling amongst thousands of colourful fish (some were even sharks) lying around under coconut trees on the larger islands, everyone who played a musical instrument brought it along, diving WWII wrecks…it was a glorious place to grow up in. And never, ever, boring.

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  5. Love the reef & there are many beautiful places BUT you are more tolerant than me , I cant stand his voice & narration , I quit about half way in . Look at some of the more interesting Islands like Dunk , Hamilton , Norfolk , Green , many & more interesting .

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  6. Look up battle of Coral Sea. A USN/RAN force defeated an IJN attempt to make a landing at Port Moresby in PNG. USN lost a fleet carrier and IJN a light carrier but the Japanese purpose was foiled so it is regarded as an Allied strategic victory.
    It led to the Guadalcanal and PNG campaigns.

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  7. "The great barrier reef" is about 1/2 the east coast of Queensland. What you're seeing there is just a "tiny" part of it.
    The "hole in the ozone" is shrinking, but it's not "fixed" yet. It's still there, and where it's not ozone is a lot thinner over Australia and the antartic. And it was CFC's (Carbon-fluro-carbons) that were being used in spray cans. They were swapped for a hydrocarbon instead.
    In relation the reef, currently we're losing about 50% of the reef per 30 years. We've documented loss for the las 30 years, and anecdotal "the reef was "here"" notes for the 30 years before.

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  8. Yes, the Great Barrier Reef is threatened by rising sea temperatures. There are lots of people here in the comments who deny this the way you always get climate change denial: saying if it hasn't completely died already obviously everything must be fine. They're pretty politically driven, and fact-resistant. Unfortunately, Australia (and in particular Queensland) has its fair share of these types who ignore science in favour of "doing their own research", which mainly involves credulously believing what they read on Facebook.

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