You are full of crap Lee.

https://www.aims.gov.au/docs/research/climate-change/coral-bleaching/coral-bleaching.html#:~:text=Bleached%20corals%20can%20no%20longer,for%20one%20or%20two%20years.

Bleached corals can no longer gain energy from photosynthesis, and if bleaching persists for an extended period, corals will starve and die.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_bleaching

Some corals recover[1] if conditions return to normal,[3] and some corals can feed themselves.[3] However, the majority of coral without zooxanthellae starve.

In 2016, bleaching of coral on the Great Barrier Reef killed between 29 and 50 percent of the reef's coral.[9][10][11] In 2017, the bleaching extended into the central region of the reef.

If the coral polyps die of starvation after bleaching, they will decay. The hard coral species will then leave behind their calcium carbonate skeletons, which will be taken over by algae, effectively blocking coral re-growth.

freediver wrote on Jan 11^th, 2022 at 7:21pm:


So how long is this extended period? Has it been physically shown or perhaps it is modelled behaviour? Did they do a necropsy of the "dead" coral? Why did the "dead" coral reported by Terry Hughes do a Lazarus.

" AIMS is developing new and more sophisticated models for predicting bleaching threats and corals’ potential to recover and adapt to new climatic conditions. These models are based on our study of the relationships between environmental conditions, coral health and past bleaching events."

And they don't even admit that bleaching is KNOWN to have occurred for over 300 years and STILL survived.

freediver wrote on Jan 11^th, 2022 at 7:21pm:


Once a reef is dead it can no longer harbour the zooxanthellae.

And it recovered. The Lazarus effect.




So AIMS has only been studying the reef since 1983. Oh dear. 

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Can you see it yet Lee?

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If you had one eye and half a brain, you could figure it out Lee.

freediver wrote on Jan 11^th, 2022 at 10:14pm:


From a photo of undisclosed origin?

You are like a crayfish - Meat in the tail and sch!t for brains.

freediver wrote on Jan 12^th, 2022 at 12:43pm:


This was underwater? Good photo. But looking at the edges of the grave it doesn't appear so.

Age and gender of photographer? Oh dear gender analysis is your short suit?

So  you don't understand exoskeleton (like coral) at all then. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt.