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This week, Nehemia Gordon and Keith Johnson discuss the Prophets portion for Haazinu which covers 2 Samuel 22:1-51. As Gordon and Johnson compare this portion to its parallel in Psalm 18, we learn more about the contexts of these living, breathing prayers and prophecies and the families of Levites who read and sang them in the Temple and in synagogues. Continue reading
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Torah Pearls #53 – Ha'azinu (Deuteronomy 32:1-32:52)
This episode of The Original Torah Pearls is on the Torah portion of Ha'azinu (Deuteronomy 32). The song of Moses provides a lyrical backdrop for discussing the beauty and message of Moses' last words to the people. Gordon explains poetic structure and rhythm as well as how poetic names are formed in Hebrew. The trio explores the repeated references to the "rock" in this song and clarifies who "they" refers to—Israel or the nations. Johnson expounds on the beauty inherit in the Tanach for Christians—with no retrofits needed—while Gordon highlights the passage equating "calling out the name of Yehovah" with "giving greatness" to the Name. The trio concludes with all the conviction of Moses—that there simply are not any other gods out there. Continue reading
Hebrew Voices #54 – Summer 2017 Israel Update
In Hebrew Voices, Summer 2017 Israel Update, Nehemia Gordon talks about his research in Jerusalem archives, meetings with top Hebrew manuscript experts, and the realization of a 2000-year old sermon in the pages of Hebrew Bible manuscripts. Continue reading
Prophet Pearls #52 – Vayelech (Isaiah 55:6-56:8)
This week, Nehemia Gordon and Keith Johnson discuss the Prophets portion for Vayelech covering Isaiah 55:6-56:8. Gordon and Johnson rejoice in this portion that heralds good news for the wicked, the unrighteous, the outcasts of Israel, the eunuch and the foreigner. And if none of these describe you, feel free to check "other." Continue reading
Hebrew Voices #53 – Yehovah in Hurricane Irma
In Hebrew Voices, Yehovah in Hurricane Irma, we encounter an inspirational message of hope in the midst of great devastation. Nehemia Gordon speaks to three men in Florida who inscribed God's holy Hebrew name on their houses and learns about the miracles that ensued. These powerful testimonies to the name of Yehovah are a physical expression of Proverbs 18:10, "the name of Yehovah is a strong tower, the righteous run into it and are safe" and Exodus 20:24, "in every place I cause my name to be mentioned, I will come to you and bless you". Continue reading
Torah Pearls #52 – Vayelech (Deuteronomy 31:1-31:30)
This episode of The Original Torah Pearls is on the Torah portion of Vayelech (Deuteronomy 31:1-31:30). The trio discuss traditions they were taught concerning the Torah—a Law so simple ancient Israelites were expected to obey just by hearing it every seven years. They examine how religious traditions can stray from the intent of Torah—to hear, to learn, to fear, and to do. Regarding who "crossed over," God or Joshua, Gordon discusses the Hebrew concept of dual causality—where the actions of the sender and the messenger are equal—a perk when partnering with the Creator of the universe. Gordon also provides Hebrew word studies that both boggle and thrill the mind—God "puts on" the suit on a man? All nations will be grafted in? The trio concludes by discussing the livability of Torah and the strength and courage required to keep it. Continue reading
Prophet Pearls #51 – Nitzavim (Isaiah 61:10-63:9)
This week, Nehemia Gordon and Keith Johnson discuss the Prophets portion for Nitzavim which covers Isaiah 61:10-63:9. These watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem recount their most recent visit to the Temple Mount and Gordon gives the historical background of Muslim-control of the only holy site in Judaism. Gordon and Johnson discuss the Isaiah passage read by Yeshua in the synagogue—which confirms first-century Haftarah readings. We learn statistics on named and unnamed angels in the Tanakh and Gordon provides three rabbinical traditions for the "angel of his presence" mentioned in this passage. In closing, Gordon asks Yehovah to turn the hearts of those who desecrate the Temple Mount—and to send his messengers to help those on the wall do his work. Continue reading
Torah Pearls #51 – Nitzavim (Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20)
This episode of The Original Torah Pearls is on the Torah portion of Nitzavim (Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20). The trio revels in this portion containing the five verses that sum up the entire Bible—the wonderful and terrible responsibility given to mankind to choose. But what qualifies one to choose the life-giving covenant? Social status? Being in the camp? Does the name of God provide a clue? And how is this covenant sealed—with a kiss or a curse? Is comprehension of the covenant too difficult for stiff-necked mortals? Whose name do we call on for help? Gordon concludes with a Hebrew word study that reveals what true prosperity looks like for those choosing Torah—a radiant bride with a loving and joyful groom. Continue reading
Hebrew Voices #52 – Heroes of 9/11
In this episode of Hebrew Voices, Heroes of 9/11, First Responder Detective David Brink (NYPD Retired) takes us on a private tour of the 9/11 Memorial Museum at Ground Zero and walks us through the events of that day. He also shares how he ran into the "9/11 Church" to find refuge from the cloud of toxic dust that formed when the Twin Towers collapsed and gives us a glimpse into how his faith gave him strength during such difficult times. Danilo wrote: "This episode is very revealing, and is a perspective I never heard." Continue reading
Prophet Pearls #50 – Ki Tavo (Isaiah 60:1-22)
This week, Nehemia Gordon and Keith Johnson discuss the Prophets portion for Ki Tavo covering Isaiah 60:1-22. Gordon and Johnson revel in this sixth in a series of seven "Haftarot of Consolation," as the prophet Isaiah details the future glory of Israel. Gordon and Johnson provide eyewitness accounts of the fulfillment of some of the prophecies—such as walls built by foreigners and the ingathering of exiles. Word studies include uri/wake up, kavod/glory leaving, netzer/branch and hamas/


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Susan Graham – A Dream Mentor Arrives at LA Opera
Grammy Award-winner Susan Graham is a legend.
For decades, the mezzo-soprano has been one of opera's greatest stars. She's shared her voice with audiences worldwide and mastered an astonishing range of repertoire from classics like the title character in Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea (unforgettable at LA Opera in 2006) to Sister Helen Prejean in Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking (a role written for her). This season, she adds another great role to her expanding resume: Artistic Advisor to LA Opera's Domingo-Colburn-Stein young artists.
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Pittance Is Back!
This Saturday afternoon, Pittance Chamber Music returns!
Pittance is comprised of LA Opera Orchestra Principals and for this concert, in particular, Steven Becknell and Stuart Clark are performing chamber works featuring their instruments.
The concert will also feature Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artists Elizabeth Zharoff and Milena Gligic.
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Amanda Woodbury Returns To LA Opera
Since "graduating" from our Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program in 2014, soprano Amanda Woodbury has become one of opera's rising stars. She's sung Musetta in La bohème here at LA Opera, Konstanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio at Dayton Opera and Des Moines Metro Opera, and multiple roles at the Metropolitan Opera, including a star turn as Juliette in Roméo et Juliette and Leïla in The Pearl Fishers. Now, Woodbury returns to sing Micaëla in Carmen, the role with which she made her professional here in 2013.
Before our last orchestra tech, we caught up with Woodbury to discuss how she fell into opera and how her performance of Micaëla has evolved.
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Sir Peter Hall – An Incredible Talent
Share The peerless stage director Sir Peter Hall (November 22, 1930 – September 11, 2017) was the founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a former director of the National Theatre in London, and had a thriving career in the world's … Continue reading
Falling in Love with Opera Helped Change Ting Perlis's Life
A few months ago, we received an extraordinary letter from Deborah Perlis.
Perlis's daughter, Ting, took part in two of our education and community engagement programs, and Deborah was eager to share with us just how much Ting's opera experience helped change her life.
When Ting was diagnosed with autism at the age of 10, she and her mother Deborah didn't know what do. For the next few years, all they heard from professionals was a laundry list of things that Ting would never do or have. Ting struggled in school, had low self-esteem and rarely spoke of her future, except to ask what would become of her.
Despite all the challenges Ting faces every day, she has always had a love of singing.
On a whim, Deborah reached out to our Education and Community Engagement team to discuss some options for Ting. With their help, Ting began her journey at LA Opera.
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In the Pit: Olivia Tsui
A proud member of the first violin section in Los Angeles Opera Orchestra for a quarter century, Olivia Tsui has been successfully pursuing her career ever since completing her violin studies at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.
Her westward journey began in 1986, when Olivia arrived in the U.S. to continue her studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, followed by USC where she studied under Alice Schönfeld. Quickly becoming active in the Los Angeles music scene, she joined the LA Opera (LAO) Orchestra in 1992, followed by appearances with other local orchestras and chamber groups.
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Carmen is in its final week of rehearsal
Share On September 9, we open the 17/18 season with Carmen. If you've been following along on Snapchat and Instagram Stories, you've seen some of our behind-the-scenes fun: rehearsals, set building, and even flamenco dancing. As we wrap up rehearsals … Continue reading
Attention Campers – Arias That Make the Bears Go Away
Shawnet Sweets, our resident opera junkie is at it again.
In addition to work and all her other adventures, Shawnet is a camper. During a recent critter-interrupted camping trip, Shawnet discovered that some of her favorite arias startled and shooed her uninvited visitors away. Those visitors were bears.
Just in time for the final weekend of summer, she's shared her "Bear-Scare Aria Playlist" with us.
Forget the traditional banging of pots and pans. If you're headed to the wilderness to cap off the summer this Labor Day Weekend, be sure to take these tunes along. You'll enjoy them and it might keep those pesky bears away.
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Bringing Carmen to Life Through Dance
Rehearsals for our 17/18 season opening production of Carmen are in full swing.
In addition to hearing wonderful singers perform the opera's many hits like "Habanera," we get to watch talented dancers tell Carmen's story through flamenco.
These dancers are led by Spanish choreographer Nuria Castejón, whose career as a dancer (working for acclaimed Ballet Nacional de España and Compania Antonio Gades) evolved into a long-standing career as an opera, theater, and film choreographer. While Castejón has worked on many plays and as Penelope Cruz's dance advisor on the Pedro Almodóvar film Volver, opera holds a special place in her heart.
"I adore opera," says Castejón. "My parents were actors and lyric singers. They did a lot of operetta and zarzuela – sometimes even working with Plácido Domingo's mother."
Castejón brings this love of opera to every production she choreographs.
This includes classics like The Barber of Seville, Luisa Fernanda (with which she made her LA Opera debut in 2007) and now to Carmen.
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Opera Takes Your Evening Commute to the Next Level
Picture this: It's the end of the workday and you're trudging through Union Station to catch the train or bus home. Out of the corner of your eye, you see someone dancing flamenco. What? Flamenco dancers in the station? Suddenly, your evening commute is transformed into something greater.
On Thursday August 31 (5:00pm), in partnership with Metro we're bringing opera to Union Station to add some excitement to your evening commute. From 5-7pm, catch Metro Arts: LA Opera at Union Station and experience a taste of Carmen, inspired by our upcoming production. (Hint: That means great singers performing music from Carmen and other performers dancing flamenco.)
What's It Like To Be An LA Opera Teaching Artist?
Laurie Peebler first joined LA Opera as a dancer.
She performed in all four operas of Wagner's Ring Cycle spanning our company's 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 seasons. Prior to joining LAO, Peebler's performance background was focused on classical theater and small dance productions.
"I considered myself a Shakespeare nerd with movement experience when I auditioned for The Ring beside a mix of actors, dancers, stunt performers, circus artists and puppeteers," Peebler explains. "The director led us through physical storytelling exercises that uniquely suited my skill set. I booked the job, my first time working in the world of opera, and it changed my life."
After working on the Ring Cycle, Peebler went on to be featured in LA Opera's La Cenerentola as well.
Then personal developments led to a shift in professional priorities.
"I became a mom and wanted more control over my schedule," says Peebler. "At the same time, I hoped to stay connected to this amazing company and to feed my love of performing."
That's when Peebler traded late night rehearsals and day-long auditioning for working with kids as part of our Secondary In-School Opera (SISO) program.
Reasons to See Carmen
In just a few short weeks – on September 9, we'll kick off our 17/18 season with Carmen. It's one of the greatest operas – filled with passion and drama and promises to thrill opera-lovers and newbies alike.
Wondering why you should see it? Wonder no more. We've rounded up just a few reasons why it's a must-see.
You know the music.
Whether it's in a commercial or your favorite TV show, chances are you've probably heard one or all three of those pieces from Carmen. Knowing the tune or words to a song makes every live experience that much better – be it a concert or musical theater. Opera is no different. And since you know these songs – you'll love this show.
Check out the use of "Habanera" in the Pixar film Up.
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Get To Know Ana María Martínez
Twenty Years of Singing in Los Angeles
One of the world's most acclaimed opera stars, soprano Ana María Martínez first graced the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion stage in 1997 singing Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème. This was not long after she took a top prize in Plácido Domingo's Operalia competition. Since then, she has sung five roles in six LA Opera productions—Violetta in La Traviata, Mimi (in two different seasons), Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, Nedda in Pagliacci, and Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly. In September, she will mark her 20th anniversary in L.A. by making another LA Opera role debut as the fiery Carmen in Bizet's eponymous opera.
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LA Opera: For The Greater Good
Did you know that LA Opera is a non-profit?
Many people don't realize that most arts organizations are non-profits, built to help people find common ground and an emotional connection.
LA Opera is no different. We strive to bring opera to everyone, because we know how opera's unique combination of classical music, storytelling, and visual arts, when simultaneously shared with hundreds upon hundreds of people, can be awe-inspiring.
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Get a Taste of Opera Magic at Newcomer
Our Newcomer Open House
If you've never seen an opera, at least not one at LA Opera, and wonder what makes it so special, here's your chance to see, hear and experience what's in store this season. On Sunday, August 20, we're opening out doors at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and invite you to our Newcomer Open House.
Hear a recital of selections from the coming season performed by our talented members of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program, grab a bite, sip some wine or a cocktail and learn more about the makings of an opera production.
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James Conlon Talks the Carmen Myth
Georges Bizet's last opera has struck deeply into the soul of Western Civilization.
Its music is universally loved and its meaning constantly analyzed, debated and reinterpreted. As a protagonist, Carmen is unique. Contrary to many mythological characters who served as operatic subjects, she transcended her stage existence and then evolved into an archetype, a popular and modern myth. Unlike Don Juan, Faust and numerous Greek, Roman and Nordic mythological characters adapted for the opera stage, Carmen had little prehistory. But like Mozart's Don Giovanni, her obvious male counterpart, she became immortal thanks to the genius of a composer. The protagonist of a short story by Prosper Mérimée, she was perfectly realized the moment Bizet set her to music.
Who is Carmen and what does she represent?
Ask a dozen opera lovers, and there will be a dozen answers. Evil temptress, femme fatale, erotic demon, 19th-century Eve for some; victim of racism, gender inequality and social injustice, symbol of emancipation and feminine empowerment for others.
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Carmen on the silver and small screens
Look up most major opera composers on IMDb and you'll get a list with hundreds of credits. Georges Bizet –famous composer of Carmen– is no exception. Music from Carmen can be heard in a variety of works, including the Pixar film Up. Carmen has also inspired several film adaptions, including the Academy-award nominated 1954 Carmen Jones.
We've rounded up some uses of Carmen on the silver and small screens to check out before seeing our production on September 9.
In Up, Carl Frederickson, following the death of his wife Ellie, fulfills his lifelong dream of moving to Paradise Falls, but unbeknownst to him, eight-year-old Russell has tagged along. "Habanera" from Carmen is used early in the film, showcasing the monotony of Carl's life without his wife.
Why I Love Opera Camp
Spring, 2016.
I'd been refreshing my email constantly for days on end, anxiously waiting for the email holding my fate. I auditioned for Opera Camp about a month earlier, and had been waiting for the results ever since. I'd found out about the program when I'd auditioned for Noah's Flood months before. Patience however, was slowly edging its way out of my grasp. Then, suddenly I saw it:
Congratulations! We would like to inform you that you have been accepted and cast for our 16/17 Opera Camp!!!!
And so it began.
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Opera Under the Stars – Get Ready for LA Opera's Simulcast
Share Mark Your Calendars We're presenting a free, live simulcast of Carmen at Santa Monica Pier and Exposition Park on September 23 at 7pm. If you're looking to experience opera under the stars, this is your chance. Here are some … Continue reading
Love Our Annual Simulcast? Thank LA County.
We love opera and we love seeing audiences experience the transformative power of opera.
Our dedication to sharing this art form with the entire Los Angeles community brings more than 30 programs into hundreds of neighborhoods across the region and also invites community members to experience opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
LA Opera's simulcast is one of our newest and most expansive programs, sharing the first opera of the season with thousands of Angelenos — in three diverse geographic locations and all at the same time.
Through the generous commitment of Los Angeles County and the Board of Supervisors, LA Opera will continue its simulcasts on September 23, 2017 with Carmen, live at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and with live broadcasts at the Santa Monica Pier and Exposition Park.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
'Super Corals' Are Resilient To Climate Change, Scientists Discover
Scientists have discovered a population of "super corals" that appear to have become resistant to extreme environmental conditions — being able to survive and thrive in hot, acidic and low-oxygen waters. And they now plan to search for more climate-adaptable coral populations within the Great Barrier Reef.
An international team of researchers first found the super corals during an expedition to a remote lagoon in New Caledonia in 2016. Their "surprising results" showed the lagoon had a diverse community of reef-building corals that had adapted to live in extreme these conditions.
Publishing their findings in the journal Scientific Reports, the team was investigating coral reef health in relating to climate change. As oceans get warmer and more acidic, vast swathes of coral species suffer. This has been documented globally, with a recent report from the Australian Research Council showing two thirds of the Great Barrier Reef had been affected so far this year.
Coral bleaching occurs when waters are too warm. These conditions make the corals expel the algae living in their tissues—causing them to lose their color. Algae provides coral with 90 percent of its energy, so while this process does not kill it, it places the coral under far greater stress and puts it at greater risk of death.
As global temperatures increase, scientists are increasingly concerned about how coral reefs—which form barriers protecting shorelines from waves and storms, and provide ecosystems for a vast number of species—will fare.
The latest findings provide some relief. Emma Camp, from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia, and colleagues found water in the semi-enclosed lagoon system was hot, acidic and lacking in oxygen when compared to neighboring reefs. Yet its coral communities was surprisingly rich—there were 20 species covering up to 35 percent of the lagoon site.
"Enhanced coral respiration, alongside high particulate organic content of the lagoon sediment, suggests acclimatisation to this trio of temperature, oxygen and pH changes through heterotrophic plasticity." Heterotrophic refers to organisms that depend on organic substances for nutrients because they cannot make their own food.
In a statement, Camp said: "The existence of corals living under this usually deadly trio of conditions, comparable and even exceeding what is predicted under climate change, gives us new hope that some corals will be able to persist into the future. These could indeed be the super corals of the future that will help support proactive management options attempting to upgrade reef resilience."
Concluding, the team wrote: "Evidence here, and from other similar habitats increasingly highlight that reef neighboring systems could act as local reservoirs of coral populations highly resistant to extreme environmental conditions."
The next step in their research is to search for similar systems in the Great Barrier Reef. The expedition, funded by the National Geographic Society Waitt Foundation, will allow the team to explore mangrove systems—which have similar, extreme conditions to those seen in New Caledonia—and how corals there may have adapted.
"As a result of the expedition we will be able to collect invaluable baseline physical and molecular data to discover how corals within the Great Barrier Reef have already adapted and how they might cope in the future," Camp said. "I'm excited at the prospect of being able to transfer our discoveries from other sites to our own home reefs."
David Suggett, who will accompany Camp on the expedition, said: "By exploring the very margins—such as reef-neighbouring mangroves that are often ignored by coral surveys—we're continually finding populations of super coral that are resistant to hot, acidic and hypoxic conditions predicted under climate change. This is a game changer for how we consider coral reef resilience into the future for the Great Barrier Reef.
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017
A new future for corals
Are coral reefs condemned to disappear? During the first decade of the 21st century, the intensification of cyclones, the phenomenon of coral bleaching due to ocean warming, outbreaks of a coral-eating starfish and coral diseases left us with this fear. But today, scientists are revising their pessimistic forecasts from the previous decade. In fact, recent research works show that, while numerous coral species have indeed been declining for more than 30 years, other are holding firm or even increasing in abundance. Consequently, some reefs have recently managed to recover.
Expanding coral genera
During a vast international study over fifteen years, IRD researchers and their partners observed the ecological development of seven coral reefs throughout the world: two in the Caribbean, in Belize and in the American Virgin Islands, and five throughout the Indo-Pacific Ocean in Kenya, Taiwan, Hawaii, Moorea and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Consequently, the scientists have shown the increase of certain genera, like the Porites reef corals, real reef builders that can resist temperature rises well.
They have also put these recent changes into perspective with regard to past events recorded in fossil reefs, showing that the abundance and structure of coral populations have already varied greatly over the course of past millennia.
Towards new underwater landscapes
These new data have enabled them to refine their mathematical models and to revise their forecasts for the coming decades. As ocean temperatures continue to rise, a subset of "winning" species will thrive: those that have the greatest heat tolerance, the best population growth rates or the greatest longevity. These species should progressively populate the planet's reefs, until they dominate them entirely.
Consequently, the underwater landscapes of the future will be very different to the ones that have been known for millennia. However, much remains to be discovered regarding this new coral fauna and its features. One question in particular remains: will these new eco-systems continue to meet the needs of the populations who depend on them?
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Sunday, May 21, 2017
Coral bleaching not a response to temperature changes
Regional coral responses to climate disturbances and warming is predicted by multivariate stress model and not temperature threshold metrics
Timothy R. McClanahan et al.
Oceanic environmental variables derived from satellites are increasingly being used to predict ecosystem states and climate impacts. Despite the concerted efforts to develop metrics and the urgency to inform policy, management plans, and actions, few metrics have been empirically tested with field data for testing their predictive ability, refinement, and eventual implementation as predictive tools. In this study, the abilities of three variations of a thermal threshold index and a multivariate stress model (MSM) were used to predict coral cover and community susceptibility to bleaching based on a compilation of field data from Indian Ocean reefs across the strong thermal anomaly of 1998. Field data included the relative abundance of coral taxa 10 years before the large-scale temperature anomaly, 2 years after (1999–2000), and during the post-bleaching recovery period (2001–2005) were tested against 1) a multivariate model based on 11 environmental variables used to predict stress or environmental exposure (MSM), 2) estimates of the time until the current mean maximum temperature becomes the mean summer condition (TtT), 3) the Cumulative Thermal Stress (CTS) for the full satellite record, and 4) the 1998 Annual Thermal Stress (1998 ATS). The MSM showed significant fit with the post-1998 cover and susceptibility of the coral community taxa (r2 = 0.50 and 0.31, respectively). Temperature threshold indices were highly variable and had relatively weak or no significant relationships with coral cover and susceptibility. The ecosystem response of coral reefs to climatic and other disturbances is more complex than predicted by models based largely on temperature anomalies and thresholds only. This implies heterogeneous environmental causes and responses to climate disturbances and warming and predictive models should consider a more comprehensive multiple parameter approach.
McClanahan, T.R., Maina, J. & Ateweberhan, M. Climatic Change (2015) 131: 607. doi:10.1007/s10584-015-1399-x
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Monday, May 1, 2017
Another stupid Greenie prophecy: "The Reef will never be the same again"
This is just straight Greenie propaganda, with no regard to all the facts. The GBR has had some bleaching events lately but it is nothing compared to Bikini Atoll, which had a thermonuclear device exploded above it. And Bikini coral is thriving again. If coral on Bikini can survive that, why should not the GBR survive infinitely lesser stressors?
And attributing the isolated bleaching to global warming is just assertion. They offer no evidence for it. The best evidence is that it is due to sea-level changes, not ocean warming.
It does seem that the 2015/2016 summer bleaching was repeated in summer this year (2016/2017). Since water levels change only slowly, that is to be expected.
And note that while they are busily attributing the bleaching to global warming -- they give not a single number for either the global water temperature or the North Queensland water temperature.
So let me supply some numbers: NASA/GISS Tell us that the global December 2016 temperature (mid-summer) was .77, which was DOWN on December 2015 (1.10)and even slightly down on 2014 (.79). So in the period at issue, there was NO global warming. So the guys below are lying through their teeth. They say that the bleaching was caused by global warming but there WAS no global warming in the period concerned.
And they also don't give numbers for sea levels in the area. They are zealously hiding the real cause of the bleaching
THE biggest jewel in Australia's tourism crown will never look the same again — and to fix it, Australia needs a worldwide hand.
Made up of 3000 individual reef systems, the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest living organism. It is home to 300 species of coral and a vast array of fish, molluscs, starfish and other marine life.
The Reef also supports a $6 billion tourism industry that provides employment for 69,000 people — all of which is in strife if environmental degradation causes significant, widespread harm.
Already back-to-back coral bleaching episodes have taken their toll, wiping out nearly 600km of coral mostly in the far north.
Caused by rising ocean temperatures that kill food-generating algal organisms inside the coral, no one can say with any confidence that bleaching will not become an annual event.
Even more worrying, scientific data suggests a further two-degree increase in ocean temperatures would wipe-out most of the hard corals.
The man in charge of the Reef Recovery program at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Dr Mark Read, concedes it will never look the same again.
Although some corals will build up a resilience to warmer temperatures, a number of species are facing extinction.
"I think it's going to end being a real mosaic," said Dr Read.
"Some parts of the Reef are going to look more classic — hard coral-dominated — that we're familiar with while other parts will be less dominated by hard coral and more dominated by soft coral and algae."
While natural habitats are destined to change over time, Dr Read says in the Reef's case, mankind has contributed to the "current accelerated period of heating" causing coral bleaching.
"We are talking about a global phenomenon," Dr Read said.
"(Coral bleaching) is happening all around the world where you have hard coral. The Great Barrier Reef has been hit particularly hard, so it's front of mind."
Among the strategies being used by his team to aid in the Reef's recovery, are ensuring activities in the area do not adversely impact the delicate marine environment; tackling the insidious Crown of Thorns starfish; improving water quality and reducing the volume of debris that finds its way into the massive water park.
Together those initiatives will make a difference but Dr Read admits they won't prevent more episodes of coral bleaching.
"In terms of dealing with the warming per se, that is something that needs to be tackled at that global level," he said.
"What we do, and what we can do is reduce as many of the direct pressures on the Reef to enhance its capacity to bounce back."
Those who make a living from the Reef are watching the situation with some trepidation.
Despite chalking up their best tourism season since 1997 in 2016, long-term operators know the back-to-back coral bleaching events that have received global coverage will eventually take their toll.
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017
And the fraud goes on: 2016/2017 bleaching on GBR
It seems that the 2015/2016 summer bleaching was repeated in summer this year (2016/2017). Since water levels change only slowly, that is to be expected.
But note the dishonesty below. They are still attributing the bleaching to global warming -- while giving not a single number for either the global water temperature or the North Queensland water temperature.
So let me supply some numbers: NASA/GISS Tell us that the global December 2016 temperature (mid-summer) was .77, which was DOWN on December 2015 (1.10)and even slightly down on 2014 (.79). So in the period at issue, there was NO global warming. So the guys below are lying through their teeth. They say that the bleaching was caused by global warming but there WAS no global warming in the period concerned.
And they also don't give numbers for sea levels in the area. They are zealously hiding the real cause of the bleaching
BACK-to-back bleaching is killing huge tracts of the Great Barrier Reef, with almost none of the coral effected in 2016 expected to recover.
Recent aerial surveys by the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies have revealed only the southern third of the reef is unscathed from the bleaching events.
Researcher Terry Hughes said mass bleaching happened in 2017 even without the assistance of El Nino, which normally brings warmer sea surface temperatures.
"The bleaching is caused by record-breaking temperatures driven by global warming," Professor Hughes said.
"Ultimately, we need to cut carbon emissions, and the window to do so is rapidly closing." Warmer water temperatures cause coral to expel their algae, turning them bright fluorescent colours and eventually bone white.
Marine biologist James Kerry said bleached corals were not necessarily dead but it was anticipated high levels of coral would be lost in the central region of the reef, which experienced the most intense bleaching this year.
"It takes at least a decade for a full recovery of even the fastest growing corals, so mass bleaching events 12 months apart offers zero prospect of recovery for reefs that were damaged in 2016," Dr Kelly said.
Tropical Cyclone Debbie also destroyed parts of the reef around the Whitsundays, a popular tourist destination that had largely escaped the worst of the bleaching so far.
While cyclones normally cause the water temperature to drop, Prof Hughes said any cooling effects were likely to be negligible in relation to the damage caused by the slow-moving Category 4 system.
"Clearly the reef is struggling with multiple impacts," he said. The Great Barrier Reef is known to have experienced four bleaching events in 1998, 2002, 2016 and 2017.
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Falling Sea Level was the Critical Factor in 2015/2016 Great Barrier Reef Coral Bleaching!
That sea levels could fall is of course be unthinkable to a Warmist. In their religion sea levels only rise. In fact sea levels both rise and fall all over the place worldwide. There has even been a fall in recent decades in Moreton Bay, near where I live.
And are we allowed to mention the remarkable sea-level testimony of Tasmania's Isle of the Dead? Read the late John Daly on the matter. He knew where all the skeletons are buried. There's a whole graveyard of them.
It is only highly theoretical isostatic "rebound" adjustments to the raw tide gauge data that enable Warmists to produce any picture of global sea level rise.
Sad below that it took Indonesian scientists to face what was actually going on
It is puzzling why the recent 2017 publication in Nature, Global Warming And Recurrent Mass Bleaching Of Corals by Hughes et al. ignored the most critical factor affecting the 2016 severe bleaching along the northern Great Barrier Reef – the regional fall in sea level amplified by El Niño. Instead Hughes 2017 suggested the extensive bleaching was due to increased water temperatures induced by CO2 warming.
In contrast in Coral Mortality Induced by the 2015–2016 El-Nino in Indonesia: The Effect Of Rapid Sea Level Fall by Ampou 2017, Indonesian biologists had reported that a drop in sea level had bleached the upper 15 cm of the reefs before temperatures had reached NOAA's Coral Reef Watch bleaching thresholds.
As discussed by Ampou 2017, the drop in sea level had likely been experienced throughout much of the Coral Triangle including the northern Great Barrier Reef (GBR), and then accelerated during the El Niño. They speculated sea level fall also contributed to the bleaching during the 1998 El Niño.
Consistent with the effects of sea level fall, other researchers reported bleaching in the GBR was greatest near the surface then declined rapidly with depth. Indeed if falling sea level was the main driver in 2016's reef mortalities, and this can be tested, then most catastrophic assertions made by Hughes 2017 would be invalid.
Indeed the Great Barrier Reef had also experienced falling sea levels similar to those experienced by Indonesian reefs. Visitors to Lizard Island had reported more extreme low tides and more exposed reefs as revealed in the photograph above, which is consistent with the extremely high mortality in the Lizard Island region during the 2016 El Niño.
Of course reefs are often exposed to the air at low tide, but manage to survive if the exposure is short or during the night. However as seen in tide gauge data from Cairns just south of Lizard Island, since 2010 the average low tide had dropped by ~10 to 15 cm. After previous decades of increasing sea level had permitted vertical coral growth and colonization of newly submerged coastline, that new growth was now being left high and dry during low tide. As a result shallow coral were increasingly vulnerable to deadly desiccation during more extreme sea level drops when warm waters slosh toward the Americas during an El Niño.
Furthermore, an El Niño in the Coral Triangle not only causes a sudden sea level fall, but it also generates a drier high-pressure system with clear skies, so that this region is exposed to more intense solar irradiance. In addition, El Niño conditions reduce regional winds that drive reef-flushing currents and produce greater wave washing that could minimize desiccation during extreme low tides. And as one would predict, these conditions were exactly what were observed during El Niño 2016 around Lizard Island and throughout the northern GBR.
Aerial surveys, on which Hughes 2017 based their analyses, cannot discriminate between the various causes of bleaching. To determine the cause of coral mortality, careful examination of bleached coral by divers is required to distinguish whether bleached coral were the result of storms, crown-of-thorns attacks, disease, aerial exposure during low tides, or anomalously warmer ocean waters. Crown-of-thorns leave diagnostic gnawing marks, while storms produce anomalous rubble.
Furthermore aerial surveys only measure the areal extent of bleaching, but cannot determine the depth to which most bleaching was restricted due to sea level fall. To distinguish bleaching and mortality caused by low tide exposure, divers must measure the extent of tissue mortality and compare it with changes in sea level. For example, the Indonesian researchers found the extent of dead coral tissue was mostly relegated to the upper 15 cm of coral, which correlated with the degree of increased aerial exposure by recent low tides.
Unfortunately Hughes et al never carried out, or never reported, such critical measurements.
However a before-and-after photograph presented in Hughes 2017 suggested the severe GBR bleaching they attributed to global warming primarily happened between February and late April. Their aerial surveys occurred between March 22 and April 17, 2016. And consistent with low tide bleaching, that is exactly the time frame that tide tables reveal reefs experienced two bouts of extreme low tides coinciding with the heat of the afternoon (March 7-11 & April 5-10). And such a combination of sun and low tide are known to be deadly.
A study of a September 2005 bleaching event on Pelorous and Orpheus Islands in the central GBR by Anthony 2007, Coral Mortality Following Extreme Low Tides And High Solar Radiation, had reported extreme deadly effects when extreme low tides coincided with high solar irradiance periods around midday. As in Indonesia, they also reported bleaching and mortality had occurred despite water temperatures that were "significantly lower than the threshold temperature for coral bleaching in this region (Berkelmans 2002), and therefore unlikely to represent a significant stress factor." Along the reef crests and flats, "40 and 75% of colonies in the major coral taxa were either bleached or suffered partial mortality.
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The fortuitous timing of Ampou's coral habitat mapping from 2014 to 2016 in Bunaken National Park (located at the northwest tip of Sulawesi, Indonesia) allowed researchers to estimate the time of coral mortality relative to sea level and temperature changes. Ampou reported that in "September 2015, altimetry data show that sea level was at its lowest in the past 12 years, affecting corals living in the bathymetric range exposed to unusual emersion. By March 2016, Bunaken Island (North Sulawesi) displayed up to 85% mortality on reef flats" and that almost "all reef flats showed evidence of mortality, representing 30% of Bunaken reefs." Based on the timing of reef deaths and changes in temperature they concluded, "the wide mortality we observed can not be simply explained by ocean warming due to El Niño." They concluded, "The clear link between mortality and sea level fall, also calls for a refinement of the hierarchy of El Niño impacts and their consequences on coral reefs."
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Sunday, April 9, 2017
Cyclone Debbie snookers reef panic merchants
There had been daily predictions of doom for the GBR from the usual suspects. It turns out that the cyclone was actually GOOD for the reef. But false prophecies are a dime a dozen from the Green/Left so that is just a minor thing. Far more interesting is what current tourist divers on the reef are saying. It turns out that the Greenies declare a stretch of reef as bleached even if the bleaching is confined to a few small patches. When have you ever heard mention of patchwork bleaching from Greenies? And what is left once you stop obsessing about those patches is still magnificent: "A million times better than the Mediterranean."
CYCLONE Debbie has been a breath of fresh air for coral bleaching on the hardest-hit parts of the Great Barrier Reef.
As the category-four storm wreaked havoc on Australia's east coast, it also brought blessed relief to a mass coral die-off on prime tourist dive sites in the Coral Sea.
Surveys of the Ribbon reefs off Lizard Island this week show a dramatic drop of up to 3C in coral-killing sea surface temperatures off the state's remote far-north.
"Cyclone Debbie looks like the turning point to allow the Reef to bounce back from this mass coral bleaching event," marine biologist Jess Walker said. "With water temperatures down to about 28C, there will be less stress on the coral, less chance of bleaching, and less chance of coral mortality."
Free-diver Audrey Buchholzer, of France, on a three-day dive expedition aboard the Spirit of Freedom in the Coral Sea, said she was stunned by the "flashy" colours and kaleidoscope of marine life on the outer reef.
"I had to see it with my own eyes," the 24-year-old said. "I'd heard negative reports the Reef was dead. That's not true. There are patches of dead and bleached coral, but so much of it is alive and thriving. "It is an underwater wonderland," she said.
Fellow diver Jennifer Petrie 31, of London, was disappointed to see the Great Barrier Reef is not like it was depicted in Finding Nemo.
"There was lots of dead bits, but still a lot of beauty," she said. "It's a million times better than the Mediterranean."
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Thursday, April 6, 2017
The 'longest war' that Australia is not prepared for
It might more aptly be described as the "phoniest" war. The blurb below is inspired by a visit to Australia by a prominent American Warmist and elitist schmoozer. Her claims are at least mostly reported cautiously below. It is all "is believed to have been" and "is thought to have created". One is of course equally at liberty to believe and think the opposite.
It is true that poor cropping conditions in the Middle East led to food shortages but that was not because of global warming. Why? Because there was no global warming during the period concerned. The drought (roughly from 2005 to 2011) behind the crop failures occurred in the middle of the 21st century warming "hiatus". So nothing at that time CAN be attributed to warming. Neither droughts in the Middle East nor anything else can be caused by something that does not exist.
And so it goes. It is all false attribution below. She predictably blames recent Barrier Reef bleaching on global warming. And it may be true that waters in Northeastern Australia are warmer than usual at the moment, but that is NOT any part of anthropogenic global warming.
Why? Because anthropogenic global warming is said to be caused by increasing concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere. But there have been NO increases in CO2 in the atmosphere recently. Cape Grim tells us that CO2 levels have been plateaued on 401ppm since last July (midwinter) So anything -- including coral bleaching -- that happened in the recent summer is NOT due to a rise in CO2.
It's all just
CLIMATE change is already acknowledged as a national security risk in the US but Australia seems unprepared for what some experts are calling "the longest war".
Sherri Goodman, a former Pentagon and US Department of Defence official, has helped to develop groundbreaking reports on the links between climate change and national security.
While Australians may not yet recognise the risks, Ms Goodman told news.com.au that in the US, the link was widely accepted within the military and national security leadership.
Even Donald Trump's new Secretary of Defence James Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee last month that climate change was a threat to the country's troops.
"Climate change is impacting stability in areas of the world where our troops are operating today," Mattis reportedly confirmed in a statement.
Ms Goodman, who coined the term "threat multiplier" to describe the climate change risk, said Australia is not immune to its potentially devastating impacts.
So far, climate change is believed to have been a factor in conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Egypt.
Ms Goodman said climate change would create prolonged instability and cause underlying tensions to seep out through a variety of conflicts.
Extreme drought is thought to have created conditions in Syria and Iraq for the rise of Islamic State, as well as the Arab Spring in Egypt.
"The food crisis was the spark that lit the match for the Arab Spring because there were wheat shortages in Russia and Ukraine, and Russia stopped exporting wheat after a prolonged drought," Ms Goodman said.
"That led to a food shortage in Egypt and in other Arab Spring nations."
Ms Goodman said Australia needed to better understand these types of connections so it could prepare and take steps, not just to respond when people's lives were at risk during a natural disaster.
"We need to understand where droughts and water scarcity and extreme weather events are becoming forcing factors in conflicts," she said.
"The climate is continuing to change because of the carbon that we've put into the system and so we need to understand these changes and then we need to be able to respond to them."
She said Australia was not well prepared for this "longest war", particularly as many political leaders did not accept climate change posed any problem to future prosperity.
Ms Goodman said she hoped recent extreme weather events like Cyclone Debbie, heatwaves and bushfires would be a "wake up call".
"You have the capability, you have the power within in Australia to make the country more resilient," she said.
"You're already sort of a resource power house, but you want to be one that's sustainable and continues its economic vitality for the rest of this century, and the way to do that is to appreciate the full range of both risks and opportunities."
Australia has already been given a recent taste of the havoc that extreme weather can bring, with homeowners complaining of looting in the aftermath of flooding and wild weather created by Cyclone Debbie.
But while Australia is a robust economy and has a stable political regime, many of our neighbours are not so lucky.
"The Asia Pacific region is 'disaster alley' for extreme weather events and natural disasters," Ms Goodman said.
"The intensity of these events have been increasing in recent years, most likely fuelled by higher Pacific Ocean temperatures," she said.
As one example Ms Goodman highlighted the situation in the Philippines, which was one of the countries most at risk of climate change due to sea level rise and storm surges.
Importantly, it was also politically unstable, where insurgents are creating problems for an authoritarian government.
"It wouldn't take that much to push that country over the edge and these are countries right in your region," she said.
Climate change has also been established as the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef, which supports 70,000 jobs within the region.
"I had the great privilege 20 years ago ... to dive in the Great Barrier Reef and it's one of the most beautiful sites I've ever seen in my life," Ms Goodman said.
"Now that I know that the bleaching has changed the corals, I don't know that I'd come back here right now. And I'm sure I'm not alone in my thinking."
While Australia's economy may be able to survive the loss of tourism if the Great Barrier Reef was to die, Ms Goodman said other countries like Indonesia and Malaysia, may not.
"Australia is a robust economy and a resilient society but you are here as part of the coral triangle," she said.
"Can their economies withstand long-term and perhaps, permanent bleaching? I don't know. But I think we should be all very concerned about that."
Australia is also surrounded by low lying Pacific Islands where whole populations are at risk of being flooded and losing their sovereignty within our lifetimes.
"People get desperate when they lose their homes, their food, their shelter, their water," Ms Goodman said.
"Climate change acts as an accelerant of instability," she said.
While it may not be the only cause acting to create this, climate change can aggravate existing threats like terrorism, the development of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, corruption and political instability.
"So climate becomes a threat multiplier on all of these existing threats," she said.
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Monday, March 27, 2017
Greenie writer for hire is full of vitriol but neglects the underlying facts
Graham Readfearn is a "freelance" writer who earns his keep by writing scary stories for Left-leaning publications. And he gets a lot of gravy from "The Guardian". The article below is just one of his typical hit-pieces that treat as gospel all that Warmists have said and sedulously avoids real critical thinking. He criticies James Delingpole only. He shows no signs of critical thinking about what Warmists say. He protects his funding.
So it's all rather a riot below. It sounds great if you don't know what he leaves out. Green/Leftists always leave things out. It is their modus operandi. They take the facts and utterances that seem to support their conclusions and ignore the rest. They would have no case if they considered all the facts. So let me give an example of that. Comrade Readfearn says:
"The Great Barrier Reef has suffered mass coral bleaching three times – in 1998, 2002 and 2016"
That's true as far as it goes but it creates the false impression that those were the ONLY bleaching events. The fact of the matter is that there have ALWAYS been bleaching events on the reef. I grew up in and near Cairns, the main access point to the reef, and for 60 years I have been hearing that the reef is damaged and in danger. Yet the tourist operators are still having no difficulty taking people out to see coral in all its glory. Comrade Readfearn lies by omission. Reef tourism is in fact booming in Cairns.
And here's something else you would never guess from comrade Readfearn's report. It is from a recent report by three prominent reef scientists:
"The bleaching, and subsequent loss of corals, is very patchy."
If the bleaching events were due to global warming you would think that the bleaching would be uniform. Or is global warming sometimes not global?
Such cynicism is in fact well justified. Here are some VERY awkward facts for comrade Readfearn:
Cape Grim tells us that CO2 levels have been plateaued on 401ppm since last July (midwinter) So anything that has happened in the recent summer is NOT due to a rise in CO2.
And NASA/GISS tell us that the December global temperature anomaly is back to .79 -- exactly where it was in 2014 before the recent El Nino event that covered the second half of 2015 and most of 2016. So there has been no global warming in the recent Southern summer and there was no CO2 rise to cause anything anywhere anyway.
The claim that this summer's bleaching was an effect of global warming is a complete crock for both reasons. The data could not be clearer on that. The seas around Northeast Australia may or may not be unusually warm at the moment but if they are it is some local effect of air and ocean currents etc. The warming in NOT a part of global warming
So that takes all the excitement away for comrade Readfearn. He has told us at great length what a bad state the reef is in -- and a few parts ARE apparently stressed -- but his only explanation for it is false
Breitbart's James Delingpole says reef bleaching is 'fake news', hits peak denial
A claim like this takes lashings of chutzpah, blinkers the size of Trump's hairspray bill and more hubris than you can shake a branch of dead coral at
It takes a very special person to label the photographed, documented, filmed and studied phenomenon of mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef "fake news".
You need lashings of chutzpah, blinkers the size of Donald Trump's hairspray bill and more hubris than you can shake a branch of dead coral at.
It also helps if you can hide inside the bubble of the hyper-partisan Breitbart media outlet, whose former boss is the US president's chief strategist.
So our special person is the British journalist James Delingpole who, when he's not denying the impacts of coral bleaching, is denying the science of human-caused climate change, which he says is "the biggest scam in the history of the world".
Delingpole was offended this week by an editorial in the Washington Post that read: "Humans are killing the Great Barrier Reef, one of the world's greatest natural wonders, and there's nothing Australians on their own can do about it. We are all responsible."
Delingpole wrote:
Like the thriving polar bear, like the recovering ice caps, like the doing-just-fine Pacific islands, the Great Barrier Reef has become a totem for the liberal-left not because it's in any kind of danger but because it's big and famous and photogenic and lots and lots of people would be really sad if it disappeared. But it's not going to disappear. That's just a #fakenews lie designed to promote the climate alarmist agenda.
Now before we go on, let's deal with some language here.
When we talk about the reef dying, what we are talking about are the corals that form the reef's structure – the things that when in a good state of health can be splendorous enough to support about 69,000 jobs in Queensland and add about $6bn to Australia's economy every year.
The Great Barrier Reef has suffered mass coral bleaching three times – in 1998, 2002 and 2016 – with a fourth episode now unfolding. The cause is increasing ocean temperatures.
"Is the Great Barrier Reef dying due to climate change caused by man's selfishness and greed?" asks Delingpole, before giving a long list of people and groups who he thinks will answer yes, including "the Guardian" and "any marine biologist".
"Have they been out there personally – as I have – to check. No of course not," says Delingpole.
Yes. James Delingpole has been out there "personally" to check, but all those other people haven't. He doesn't say when he went but he has written about one trip before. It was back in late April 2012. Everything was fine, he said, based on that one visit. I can't find any times when he has mentioned another trip since.
So here's the rhetorical question – one that I can barely believe I'm asking, even rhetorically.
Why should there not be equivalence between Delingpole's single trip to the reef (apparently taken 10 years after a previous severe case of bleaching and four years before the one that followed) at one spot on a reef system that spans the size of Italy [takes breath] and the observations of scientists from multiple institutions diving at 150 different locations to verify observations taken by even more scientists in low-flying aircraft traversing the entire length of the reef?
I mean, come on? Why can those two things – Delingpole making a boat trip with mates and a coordinated and exhaustive scientific monitoring and data-gathering exercise – not be the same?
So it seems we are now at a stage where absolutely nothing is real unless you have seen it for yourself, so you can dismiss all of the photographs and video footage of bleached and dead coral, the testimony of countless marine biologists (who, we apparently also have to point out, have been to the reef ) and the observations made by the government agency that manages the reef.
Senator Pauline Hanson and her One Nation climate science-denying colleagues tried to pull a similar stunt last year by taking a dive on a part of the reef that had escaped bleaching and then claiming this as proof that everything was OK everywhere else.
This is like trying to disprove to a doctor that you have two broken legs by showing him an MRI scan of your head (which may or not reveal the presence of a brain), and then being annoyed when he doesn't accept your evidence.
It's as though we've reached peak denial.
Last year's bleaching on the reef was the worst episode recorded to date. The current fourth mass bleaching has scientists again taking to the field.
This month a study published in Nature, and co-authored by 46 scientists, found these three episodes had impacted reefs "across almost the entire Great Barrier Reef marine park". Only southern offshore reefs had escaped.
Corals bleach when they are exposed to abnormally high ocean temperatures for too long. Under stress, the corals expel the algae that give them their colour and more of their nutrients.
Corals can recover but, as the study explains, even the fastest growing and most vigorous colonisers in the coral family need between 10 and 15 years to recover.
After the 2016 bleaching, a quarter of all corals on the reef, mostly located in the once "pristine" northern section, died before there was a chance for recovery.
In a further blow, the study looked at factors such as improving water quality or reducing fishing pressure and asked if these had helped corals to resist bleaching. In each case, they found they did not (although they do give reefs that survive a better chance to recover).
Essentially, the study found the only measure that would give corals on the reef a fighting chance was to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The lead author of the study, Prof Terry Hughes of James Cook University (who is this week carrying out aerial surveys of the current bleaching episode), told my Positive Feedback podcast:
We can't climate-proof reefs. Sure, there's stuff we need to do be doing locally around water quality and fisheries management, but doing these two things alone is not going to protect the reefs in the long term. The elephant in the room here is climate change.
Some commentators have suggested a key cause of the 2016 bleaching was the El Niño weather pattern that tends to deliver warmer global temperatures.
But Hughes says that before 1998, the Great Barrier Reef went through countless El Niños without suffering the extensive mass bleaching episodes that are being seen, photographed, filmed and documented now.
Dr Mark Eakin, head of Coral Reef Watch at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the cause of the modern-day mass bleaching episodes on reefs across the world was the rise in ocean temperatures.
This, says Eakin, is "being driven largely by humans and our burning of fossil fuels".
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Saturday, March 18, 2017
The only way to save coral reefs: A war on global warming (?)
This utter BS first came out in Australian newspapers and I commented on it then. I found the article below in the Boston Globe, however, so the nonsense has spread. In the circumstances, I think I should repeat and amplify my earlier comments.
Cape Grim tells us that CO2 levels have been plateaued on 401ppm since last July (midwinter) So anything that has happened in the recent summer is NOT due to a rise in CO2.
And NASA/GISS tell us that the December global temperature anomaly is back to .79 -- exactly where it was in 2014 before the recent El Nino event that covered the second half of 2015 and most of 2016. So there has been no global warming in the recent Southern summer and there was no CO2 rise to cause anything anywhere anyway.
The claim that this summer's bleaching was an effect of global warming is a complete crock for both reasons. The data could not be clearer on that. The seas around Northeast Australia may or may not be unusually warm at the moment but if they are it is some local effect of air and ocean currents etc. The warming in NOT a part of global warming
Reducing pollution and curbing overfishing won't prevent the severe bleaching that is killing coral at catastrophic rates, according to a study of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. In the end, researchers say, the only way to save the world's coral from heat-induced bleaching is with a war on global warming.
Scientists are quick to note that local protection of reefs can help damaged coral recover from the stress of rising ocean temperatures. But the new research shows that such efforts are ultimately futile when it comes to stopping bleaching in the first place.
"We don't have any tools to climate-proof corals," said Terry Hughes, director of the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies in Australia and lead author of the study being published on Thursday in the journal Nature. "That's a bit sobering. We can't stop bleaching locally. We actually have to do something about climate change."
Across the world, scores of brilliantly colored coral reefs once teeming with life have in recent years become desolate, white graveyards. Their deaths due to coral bleaching have grown more frequent as ocean temperatures rise, mainly due to increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The hot water stresses corals, forcing them to expel the colorful algae living inside them, which leaves the corals vulnerable to disease and death. Given enough time, bleached coral can recover if the water cools, but if the temperature stays too high for too long, the coral will die.
Preserving coral reefs is crucial, given we depend on them for everything from food to medical research to protection from damaging coastal storms. Scientists and policymakers have thus been scrambling to find ways to prevent bleaching. Last year, for example, Hawaiian officials proposed several measures they hoped would fight bleaching on the state's reefs, such as limiting fishing, establishing new marine protected areas, and controlling polluted runoff from land. The question was whether such efforts could provide the corals any resistance to bleaching, or just help them recover.
The researchers conducted aerial and underwater surveys of the Great Barrier Reef, which has experienced three major bleaching events, the worst of which occurred last year. The scientists found that the severity of bleaching was tightly linked to how warm the water was. In the north, which experienced the hottest temperatures, hundreds of individual reefs suffered severe bleaching in 2016, regardless of whether the water quality was good or bad, or whether fishing had been banned. That means even the most pristine parts of the reef are just as prone to heat stress as those that are less protected.
Prior exposure to bleaching also did not appear to provide any protective benefit to the coral. The scientists found that the reefs that were highly bleached during the first two events, in 1998 and 2002, did not experience less severe bleaching last year.
Ultimately, the study concluded, saving reefs from the ravages of bleaching requires urgent action to reduce global warming.
"I think it's a wake-up call," Hughes said. "We've been hoping that local interventions with water quality and fishing would improve the resistance of the corals to bleaching. We found no evidence that that's actually true, at least during a very severe event."
The study shows that older ways of thinking about reef management, such as reducing river runoff, are now moot points when it comes to preventing bleaching, said Kim Cobb, a climate scientist and coral researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
"It all seems so quaint now, really," said Cobb, who wasn't part of the study. "A future that we thought was decades coming is basically here."
The research also illustrated the gravity of the situation facing the 1,400-mile Great Barrier Reef. The team found 91 percent of the reef has been bleached at least once during the three bleaching events. Even more alarming, Hughes said, is that a fourth bleaching event is already underway. Corals need years to recover from bleaching, so back-to-back events increase the possibility that the bleached coral will die.
The study shows that very intense coral bleaching events are no longer isolated and are happening more regularly, said coral reef scientist Julia Baum of Canada's University of Victoria. That assertion has been further bolstered by the Great Barrier Reef's latest bleaching event, which began a few weeks ago and which Baum says has stunned scientists.
"None of us were expecting the water to be heating up again right now," Baum said. "I think it's beyond what any of us could have imagined. It's our worst nightmare."
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The computer scientist Jaron Lanier provides insights on technology in his new book, "Who Owns the Future?"
As its title indicates, Jaron Lanier's new tech manifesto asks, "Who owns the future?" But for many of those who will be captivated by Mr. Lanier's daringly original insights, another question comes first: Who is Jaron Lanier? He is a mega-wizard in futurist circles. He is the father of virtual reality in the gaudy, reputation-burnishing way that Michael Jackson was the king of pop. Mr. Lanier would undoubtedly be more of a household name if he were not a large, dreadlocked, anything but telegenic figure with facial hair called "mossy" in a 2011 profile in The New Yorker. While working on "intriguing unannounced projects" for Microsoft Research — "a gigantic lighter-than-air railgun to launch spacecraft" and a speculative strategy for "repositioning earthquakes" — Mr. Lanier found time to follow up on his first book, "You Are Not a Gadget" (2010). That was a feisty, brilliant, predictive work, and the new volume is just as exciting. Mr. Lanier bucks a wave of more conventional diatribes on Big Data to deliver Olympian, contrarian fighting words about the Internet's exploitative powers. A self-proclaimed "humanist softie," he is a witheringly caustic critic of big Web entities and their business models.


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Here we show that segregation of homologous chromosomes and that of sister chromatids are differentially regulated in Xenopus and possibly in other higher eukaryotes. Upon hormonal stimulation, Xenopus oocytes microinjected with antibodies against the anaphase-promoting complex (APC) activator Fizzy or the APC core subunit Cdc27, or with the checkpoint… (More)
Integrin alpha4beta1 mediates leukocyte recruitment, activation, mediator release, and apoptosis inhibition, and it plays a central role in inflammatory pathophysiology. High-affinity, selective inhibitors of alpha4beta1, based on the Leu-Asp-Val (LDV) sequence from the alternatively spliced connecting segment-1 (CS-1) peptide of cellular fibronectin, are… (More)
Flow cytometry analysis of luteal cells revealed that an important proportion of these cells are leukocytes. The percentage of leukocytes was higher in the early (42 +/- 4) and late (35 +/- 3) luteal phases than in the mid-luteal (24 +/- 2) phase. However, the proportion of macrophages did not differ between the luteal stages. The flow cytometric properties… (More)
We study numerically the effects of edge and bulk disorder on the conductance of graphene nanoribbons. We compute the conductance suppression due to Anderson localization induced by edge scattering and find that even for weak edge roughness, conductance steps are suppressed and transport gaps are induced. These gaps are approximately inversely proportional… (More)
- T Aaltonen, A Abulencia, +497 authors Y Shon
- Physical review letters
- 2007
We present a measurement of the W-boson mass using 200 pb{-1} of data collected in pp[over ] collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV by the CDF II detector at run II of the Fermilab Tevatron. With a sample of 63 964 W-->enu candidates and 51 128 W-->munu candidates, we measure M_{W}=80 413+/-34{stat}+/-34{syst}=80,413+/-48 MeV/c;{2}. This is the most precise single… (More)
- D S Dhindsa, T H Cochran, A Castro, J R Swanson, J Metcalfe
- American journal of veterinary research
- 1975
Serums from 4 species of deer and 1 species of antelope were analyzed for various components in order to define an animal disease model for sickle cell disease in people. Animal species included black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), sika deer (Cervus nippon nippon), fallow deer (Dama dama), and pronghorn… (More)
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- Cancer
- 1981
Antiserum to a human prostate-specific antigen was raised in a rabbit and utilized by immunoperoxidase staining to evaluate its potential value as a diagnostic histologic marker for tumors of prostatic origin. All primary and metastatic prostatic malignancies reacted positively, whereas nonprostatic neoplasms did not stain with this procedure. This is the… (More)


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Debra K chats with Master Gardener Kay Cannon on how best to help a garden grow. BY DEBRA K | POSTED MAY 30, 2013 on SpryLiving.com As I venture out into the world of health and wellbeing one thing becomes increasingly clear: it is vital we eat healthy, whole […]Read more →
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Job Number: 20018846
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Date Posted: 7-22-2017
Job Title: Inside Sales Representative
What Inside Sales contributes to Cardinal Health/The Harvard Drug Group
Inside Sales is responsible for driving sales and services to new and existing customers. The sales cycles will tend to be simple and short-term in nature and may or may not lead to a long term customer relationship.
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I think the key differentiator between Cardinal Health and other companies is the people.
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How La Guardia Rid City Of Big-Time Corruption
Published: October 16, 1994
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It is difficult not to feel a fondness and even admiration for 98-year-old Louis Eisenstein who "toiled in Tammany Hall's army" for nearly 50 years ("The Thorns on the Little Flower," Oct. 9). However, longevity cannot always be equated with wisdom, particularly political wisdom.
Mr. Eisenstein is resentful of the fact that Fiorello H. La Guardia criticized Tammany leaders and "toilers" alike as "tinhorn politicians" and "clubhouse loafers," but they were apt descriptions of the vast majority of Tammany politicians during the 1920's and 30's. It was not until the investigation headed by Judge Samuel Seabury paved the way for election of La Guardia that the Tammany stench began to leave municipal government.
Perhaps La Guardia's greatest achievement was to drive the money-changers out of the municipal temple. And they never came back! Later corruption was penny-ante stuff compared to the days when Jimmy Walker charmed the public whose pockets were being picked by men to whom the Louis Eisensteins gave their misguided trust. MORRIS B. LAWRENCE Manhattan The writer is secretary of the La Guardia Memorial Association.


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Well folks it's finally here, the Galaxy S5, we have been waiting months for this device to be made official and endured rumors galore but now it's here. The Samsung Unpacked 2014 event has just ended and Samsung made the device official going over the new UX, new fitness capabilities and much more so lets dive right in.
Lets first start off with a basic rundown of the specs:
- 5.1-inch full HD display (1080p Super AMOLED)
- Android 4.4 KitKat
- 2GB of RAM
- Micro SD Card Storage
- IP67 Rating (Water and Dust Resistant)
- 802.11 ac WiFi, with MIMIO (2×2)
- Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low-Energy)
- IR Port
- 2800 mAh Battery (Removable)
- 2.5GHz Quad-Core Processor
- 16MP Camera
- Rear Heart Rate Sensor
- Fingerprint Scanner
This phone is definitely a powerhouse that can do everything you would want a smartphone to do plus a little more. Plus you will be glad to hear that Samsung has toned down TouchWiz a bit so that the phone is less cluttered. It's also great to see that the phone that is destined to be the most popular phone in the world upon its release has adopted an IP67 rating making it water and dust resistant.
Samsung has also adopted a lot more fitness focused software features for the S5 making it the perfect companion device when it comes to people who want to stay physically fit. Pair the S5 with a Gear Fit and you've got yourself a personal fitness trainer.
They have also decided to include a fingerprint scanner in the S5, whether or not they are copying the iPhone I think it's a great move by Samsung. They are allowing you to use it to do things like make purchases with PayPal so it has to work well or they would not do this. A fingerprint scanner will allow for more secure use of apps and information not allowing anyone else but you access your phone and it's information. Like the man on stage said, "No more complicated security questions."
One more thing worth talking about with this phone is the amazing camera that it is packing. A 16 megapixel shooter, capable of auto-focusing in 0.3 seconds, the fastest auto-focus on any smartphone to date. Want to take a HDR photo? Well no more talking a picture and waiting 3 seconds for the image to process, with the S5 what you see is already HDR, yes folks real-time HDR, this also applies to video recording. So all you have to do is snap your picture, it's instantaneous.
We are going to be hearing a lot more over the next month or so about the Galaxy S5 from things such as pricing and carrier options so be sure to stay posted to AndroidMeter for all of the up-to-date news when it comes to the Galaxy S5. In the meantime scroll down and take a look at the S5 photo gallery below to see the S5 in all of it's shiny glory.
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Shop 16/30 Karalta Rd, Erina, 2250 (next to Plush Furniture)
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Peace of Mind plan
3 Years coverage
+ FREE Delivery & Removal
Finish: Stainless steel
Number of burners: 4
Made in: Italy
Warranty: 24 months parts and labour
Type of controls: Knob controls
Number of knob controls: 4
Type of trivets: Enamel
Ignition: Electric
Gas type: Natural/ULPG
ULPG adaptable:kit supplied
Total power rating: 27mj/hr max over four burners
Power of burners: Front right: 3.6mj/hr
Front left: 10.8mj/hr
Rear x2: 6.3mj/hr
Installation type: Flex and plug
Maximum current: 10amps
Connection: 240V, 50Hz
Overall dimensions (mm): 50h x 580w x 500d
Cut-out dimensions (mm): 560w x 480d
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We offer free delivery to most major Australian cities – please use our delivery calculator or call 1300 002 500 to see if your suburb qualifies.
Please note that 'free delivery' means that we will bring the product into your house, but will not unpack or connect.
For a small fee of $39.95 we can unpack the product, remove any rubbish, and connect the new appliance to existing power and/or plumbing (excludes integrated fridge / freezers, wall-mounted dryers, hot water systems, air-conditioners, cooking appliances, audio & visual products and dishwashers). We can also remove your old appliance, if required.
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This cooktop was delivered within 24hours of ordering
Excellent easy operation cook top
The only tiny issue I had is the power cord (for the gas ignition) is shorter than the cable on my last cool top-so I currently use an extension lead as the power isn't adjacent to the gas piping
Otherwise perfect!
I've had this product for over a year and it has not missed a beat. It's so easy to use and clean.
Good delivery and efficient installation. Will definitely use them again!
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I purchased this cooktop in August & it is beautiful & makes my kitchen look really classy. I love it!
The grill is not made with any thought as most of my cooking utensils fall and have to b adnusted unless they r flat surface. The flame is ok. The small grill needs a further part to heat the small milk top which i have to load. I will not recommend it!
Great cooktop, using the LPG nozzles that came with the package.
Great price too.
One small issue was they said they were going to ring twice before delivery, on the day & 1 hour before. No phone calls but delivered as sceduled.
Would use again.
Purchased this cooktop about a month ago, had it installed and the electronic ignition didn't work, still waiting for it to be repaired but I do love cooking with gas
After a year without a cooktop I totally stoked with my new esay to use Gas Cooktop - just perfect!
I bought this before Christmas to complete my stainless steel look kitchen. Goes with my new oven and rangehood
Have bought this about 2 months ago. Cooks ok, price was good. However, cannot turn the flame up and down, which is a real low point.
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Attachment 1510 my vectra, what do you think
Attachment 1510 my vectra, what do you think
Very Nice. The Sri's look the part.
Is it Lighting Silver?
yer it is, i hav put a grill on it now as you can see i am buying some 18" alloys this weekend for it (hopefully if the other half lets me ) Attachment 1512
Paul, have a read of THIS thread matey. It expains what this section is used for.
If you're just posting pictures of your car dude, put them in the Gallery Section.
Nice car Paul... good luck with your 18" wheels
great pics paul.plenty of loving care given to the car ,top marks!!
Looking good
Looking good, nice car!
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