Second wave of mass bleaching unfolding on Great Barrier Reef

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http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/media-room/latest-news/coral-bleaching/2017/second-wave-of-mass-bleaching-unfolding-on-great-barrier-reef

[font face=Serif][font size=5]Second wave of mass bleaching unfolding on Great Barrier Reef[/font]

Published: 10/03/2017

[font size=3]Mass coral bleaching is occurring on the Great Barrier Reef for the second consecutive year, Australia's lead management agency for the Reef confirmed today.

The bleaching is part of a global event affecting the world’s coral reefs over the past two years.

Experts from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority spent six hours yesterday flying over the Reef between Townsville and Cairns, alongside researchers from the Australian Institute of Marine Science.

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This year more bleaching is being observed in this central part of the Reef, which last year escaped widespread severe bleaching.

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1. But carbon dioxide doesn't cause problems for the environment. Haven't you heard?

Just ask the EPA's new idiot-in-chief.

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2. Well I did notice that he acknowledged that global warming is occurring

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/09/epa-chief-scott-pruitt.html

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"I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would not agree that it's a primary contributor to the global warming that we see," he told CNBC's "Squawk Box."

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