{"id":3465,"date":"2021-09-28T03:36:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2021-09-28T03:36:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:36:12","slug":"great-barrier-reef-experiencing-record-high-levels-of-coral-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3465","title":{"rendered":"Great Barrier Reef experiencing \u2018record high\u2019 levels of coral coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"804\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/znOidiyUnq8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nFormer JCU Marine Physicist Peter Ridd says the Great Barrier Reef is now experiencing \u201crecord high coral cover\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is data that\u2019s been accumulated over a little while now and it shows \u2026 it\u2019s actually at record high coral cover,\u201d he told Sky News Australia.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got more coral on the Great Barrier Reef now than we did when records began in 1985. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got twice as much coral as we had after huge cyclones went through the reef in about 2011 and 2012, and this record-high coral cover is despite supposedly having three catastrophic unprecedented bleaching events in just the last five years.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you&#8217;ve just got to wonder were those bleaching events maybe as catastrophic as these experts supposedly claimed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former JCU Marine Physicist Peter Ridd says the Great Barrier Reef is now experiencing \u201crecord high coral cover\u201d. \u201cThis is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[68,1586,1252,1671,59,1672,425,112,69,324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3466,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions\/3466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}