About 70-90% of all existing coral reefs are expected to disappear in the next 20 years due to warming oceans, acidic water and pollution, said scientists from the University of Hawaii Manoa, who presented their findings Monday at an ocean sciences conference."By 2100, it's looking quite grim," said Renee Setter, one of the University of Hawaii Manoa researchers, in a press release.
In hotter water, corals lose their algae coverings and turn white or"bleached". Bleached coral are not yet dead -- but without their algae they eventually starve.Hide Caption 2 of 6 Photos: How are humans harming coral reefs?Overfishing: The coral reef's inhabitants are its first line of defense. Fish eat some of the creatures that eat coral, while crabs and shrimp use their pincers to protect their coral homes.
With fewer natural predators, the species' new Atlantic populations are growing rapidly. They can eat and out-compete native coral reef creatures. Aquarium releases, aquaculture and fishing boats can all unwittingly introduce invasive species to delicate coral environments.Hide Caption 4 of 6 Photos: How are humans harming coral reefs?Acidification: Seawater absorbs our carbon dioxide emissions, which makes the oceans more acidic.
BULLSHIT. THE GREAT BARRIER REEF IS REGENERATING PERFECTLY AS IT ALWAYS HAS.
Not to worry, the creator of His planet. God Almighty, has all coral reef, under His control, so please cut the crap, and just allow Him to continue His pefectly organized job.
I didn't know they still existed. Everyone needs to enjoy them before 2040 when they will be gone in 20 twenty years.
Ye ye ye media bullish.t would u like a tin foil hat sir what size sir wildlife in my country is now doing better than ever been if you didn’t drill mine and polluted the country you had since the time began u now have a great land scape but there you go
The increase in CO2 increases temperatures and the acidity of the oceans. We have to stop our CO2 emissions to protect the reefs!
Googles : how to grow coral reefs at home
Terrible. Act now to save the reefs!
Sad 😢
GND ClimateActionNow BernieSanders2020
And the world will be under water by 2000 according to Al Gore - please stop.
But it has nothing to do with the fact that hundreds of thousands of tons of nuclear waste continue to pour into the ocean feo Fukushima. I’m sure that’s not destroying the ocean at all is.
They said the same thing decades ago.
“could” = fakenews
More taxes will help that!
The great barrier reef currently boasts 90% of its area being healthy, and growing in size. Current ocean PH in the Australian region is 7.5. Current global sea level rise is at a steady 2.84 mm annually. NOT ONE coral reef has disappeared since these false predictions began.
Recent polls 'suggest' that if CNN doesn't get their ratings up, Rupert Murdoch will purchase CNN, fire everybody, and turn it into a conservative news network. May I suggest telling at least SOME truth so everybody stops turning you off. Even airports don't want to televise you.
Hold them to it. If it doesn't happen, then THEY should 'disappear'.
I was speculating about the next 20 years, I will most likely be balder, fatter, uglier, drinking polluted water, moving from my house due to flooding oceans, eating fake foods, or ...………..
Welp, it was a good run.
Amazingly, all disasters are always 20 years away.
Don't worry a Democrat will fix the problems. They are great at fixing things. They will use tax payer money to fix it Or just pass useless bills to ban that they know won't pass. They will try to take more American rights away to help the fish. You can count on a Democrat
Idea artificial reefs not new but in correct rep water and repopulate with transplanted eco system
Bullshit
psychologyofjoy Please
Are these the same Al Gore scientists that said the glaciers would be gone by 2012?
just like the polar caps were going to be melted by 2013
KShirer
Can you explain which one of these is correct?
Why aren’t we deploying science and technology to alleviate the worst effects of warming and acidification?
According to AOC the planet will be destroyed by 2031.
LMAO
WTF! Where’s getto greta !
Climate hysteria!!😝😝💥💥
Does your social media department ever look back and see what you have posted before? You contradict yourself station constantly.
Here we go again, another repost🙄
А кое-кто об этом не желает даже задумываться 🤷
If true, we fucked
Not true
I scraped my leg on coral reef once - screw 'em
I will miss this beautiful creatures of the sea.
And everybody’s ok with it. Next.
Right
what will kill us first, climate change or the coronavirus 😰
and we're all gonna die in the end
An Who Is To Blame? Primitive Black Africans Or Wise And Advanced (Rest Of The World), that prides itself as having Diviner Brains? No One Can Mock God And Get Away With It. Scientists, Inventors and Technologists thought they have all the Answers. They've Created More Problems!
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CNN shut up already .. FakeAfNews
But our orange top in DC doesnt believe any of this🤷♀️🤦♀️🤷♀️🤬
Your Present don't believe in Climate change.
coral reef, more like oral que*f!
Our children and they're children will pay for the indulgence and ignorance of today
Well, the world is not a perfect place. There is Nothing anyone can do about it.
This is so sad, there will be nothing left of our poor planet 😣😞
richardweiner IBlameTrump. He refuses to believe in Climate Change, and so because he, in his majestic wisdom, refuses to believe---the earth dies.
Crikey. Wouldn’t want scientific fact to get in the way of a good CNN yarn.
Yeah, they always say...
The Anti Greta
😔💔 this is heart breaking
Fake news? Am I doing it right? Was trying to channel my inner flat-earther numpty.
Not China dumping
Not
I was told this in a grade school science class...in the 90s.
anything STILL LEFT ?
Humans might disappear quicker!
climate change is going to kill the earth 😞
About 70-90% of all existing FakeNewsMedia outlets are expected to disappear due to people waking up to their lies and demanding truth, integrity and real journalism. WeAreTheNewsNow
Coral reefs are thriving, media doesn’t show how they grow back
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The sky, she is falling.
I sure hope this is fake news 😭
Plastic is the worst.
Vote True! Vote Blue! Warren for Prez!
Keep spending money in war suckers!!!!!
“About 70-90% of all existing coral reefs are expected to disappear in the next 20 years ....”. No, they’re not. That’s just a lie.
FakeNews could kill CNN in 5 years - oh wait. Too late.
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I've snorkeled the Fl Keys once a year since 2008. The reef is now like a graveyard of coral skeletons. I cried last year as if mourning the death of a friend. I won't go back. I hope they heal. 💗
Go solar, buy electric cars, recycle, eat plant based and if the world explodes anyway...at least you tried. Giving all of our money to the oil companies isn’t working for anyone but a select few.
Life survived an ice age, major continental shifts, Asteroids 5 miles wide hitting Earth yet little ol Humans come along and oh no. Humans will cause the end of Earth by being ourselves. You can’t make this stuff up.
Crazy! bullmooseAPUSH2020
What part does raw sewer dumps from coastal cities play in etching coral? Do you think the UN should speak out about raw sewer dumps? Does your favourite media outlet ever speak out about raw sewer dumps? Do you live in a city that dumps raw sewer?
People need to learn not to Pee in the Sea........
There are zoos that go to Florida and other places and pick small coral and take it back to the zoos and start letting it grow. It takes years for them to grow very big. But when it gets to a certain size, they take it back out and attach it to other coral or plants.
What a legacy on our behalf!
This is awfully sad .. 🥺
The fossil fuel industry knew it was a large contributor to climate change 40years ago but as usual profit prevailed over preservation! Tax'em to the max!
The key question is how to we get China and India to worry about the environment when they are currently more worried about surviving. Also all these celebrity 'activists' flying around in private jets are full of crap.
Always wrong
But the beaches will be fine!
Let us know when this sh1t starts actually happening. We still got polar bears, coral and f*cking Florida. Y'all are just got-dam Chicken Littles and you're really starting to annoy us people who DON'T F*CKING FLY PRIVATE OR BUY BEACHFRONT MANSIONS.
Global warming was invented to save the Japanese economy from the liabilities from the Fukushima reactors killing the Pacific. If held accountable Japan would be broke and in debt for eternity.
And I still wonder why so many people believe climate change is not real.
Hold on. I thought we were all going to die before that..... what did I miss?
Scare mongering. How much were these liberal scientist paid to come up with this 'study'? The climate change hoax is a big dollar game.
And the band plays on.
But wait - doesn’t the same science tell us that the world will be gone in 11 years? 🤷🏼♂️
This is bad
Lol, and when it doesn’t, they’ll give the refs another 20 years. Smh fukn LAME
See it know or they Will be gone 😪
who do we blame for all of these ?
Check out my latest music video 'Mother Earth' - let's fight climate change!!
ppl still don’t understand 🤦🏻♀️
Trump to dismiss climate impacts in overhaul of environmental reviews: sources January 6, 2020
We destroyed Earth I cant believe it
Dead coral reefs could mean a total disruption of the oceanic food chain leading to mass extinctions. For people who only care about economics this could mean a near wipeout of the ocean fishing industry as well.
oh nooooo!
You can also blame parents who want to buy their kids tropical fish, so illegal fishing practices like using arsenic on the reefs continue. Stop buying your kids Nemo and get a fucking gold fish.
You guys said that 20 years ago too
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. Thich Nhat Hanh
Economy gets better..... World suffers more...... Your next tweet will be about taling Jet trips to Islands etc..... Million cars on the road.....human laziness..... Resource waste...... the end? Its coming... Hope your ready
Weird how coral reefs will be around until humanity is gone despite this claim.
I mean we should definitely work on keeping plastic out of the ocean but aside from soda rings getting stuck on them I think they’ll be just fine. You guys should really try going a few miles out of a major city sometime, it’s not a nightmare hellzone like where you operate
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人类真的该有危机意识了！应该做点什么了！
Let these countries know, they use the oceans as their personal waste disposal -
Zero sense.. plus in 20 years, they’ll tack on another 20 years and on and on..
No worries, the world will be ending in 10 years
It’s illegal for you or I to yell ‘fire’ in a crowded movie theatre. Can we hold these scientists criminally negligent if their predictions do not hold true?
According to AOC the world only has 10 years left! Does it really matter
False they are actually growing and full of life. Stop lying
I live near the Gulf of Mexico. I can show high and low tides marks made in the 1920’s. Just under 100 years. Sea levels have not raised. They are using the natural tide margins to deceitfully claim that the sea level is rising. ITS A LIE!
Maybe Joaquin Phoenix could speak for them too?
Your lying. Global warming is a good thing. It’s the only way to feed the population of the future. We need it desperately
Yep, and the arctic ice cap has melted, snow is a thing of the past, and manhattan is under water. But please, do go on.
Remain calm everyone, scientists are sure to solve the problem scientists caused!
the ocean temperature raises only .13 of a single degree per decade (10 years) on average. Do the math, that’s about .26 of a single degree increase in the next 20 years. THIS RIGHT HERE is why nobody takes anybody serious anymore.
Well, the world is Not a Perfect Place and it never will be. Frankly, that 70 - 90% claim sounds like quite an exaggeration.
Isn’t Eskom contributing to the global warming when drying out wet coals until burning them?
FAKE NEWS as usual.
UNACCEPTABLE
I heard this in 1988
Doesn't sound like my personal problem
They've lied about that numerous times and have been caught in those lies each time. The reefs are thriving and growing. Stop the nonsense and stop parroting this shit as if it is fact. is a fraud and the employees working there should be ashamed and demand change.
Sad af, waiting for someone to try to save the ocean, hope I could help but I’m broke
I heard the same crap back in 2nd grade in 1988.
Right ? Just like the glaciers
Weren't the polar ice caps suppose to be melted 45 years ago? LIES Control GlobalistMoneyGrab Hoax
As the scientists ask for $300 million more in funding to continue their work.
Imagine actually believing this
Naaaaaah! Too late! The “scientists” announced that the Great Barrier Reef was dead three years ago. Game over!
F*ck
lol, corals have been around for 500Mn+ years. They've seen all kinds of environments. They will be fine. Good luck cnn on your guilt and tax propaganda campaign!
I'd be more concerned with polluting the oceans in the damn climate
they could not get a seashell to dissolve in a lab by constantly aerating seawater with co2 , it simply would not happen so they gave up and used hydrochloric acid instead , this report is garbage , the scientists in Hawaii are lying
Just like the world was going to end in 2000 because of global warming right?
I thought we are not supposed to be alive due to global warming by this time😂🤣 yh I should listen to the science. Doomsday B.S
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What percentage has disappeared over what length of time so far?
What will be left for our children’s children? Anything?
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I heard this 20 years ago, and 20 years before that. Someday this article will be right I guess.
Humbug.
Damn boi
Tony__Heller This is gonna be gud.
Unfortunately nothing or little is been done to prevent such impending disaster from happening, we are all focus on rapid developmental agenda that we tend to miss out the catastrophic implications. I doubt we even aware of any implication!
It's fine Once the oceans rise they can take over our cities as the new coral reefs
Acid rain was going to destroy the northern boreal forests here in Northern Canada in the 1990’s. How’d that work out?
How much will this cost the nation in lost tourism $$$ ScottMorrisonMP ?
Thousands of years ago, God created this beautiful planet, and we are destroying it ... terrible !
Concerned!
The old, do what I say or in 20 years things will be different... been moving the goal posts for 30 Years
You already committed to this prediction for 2010
Humans will just create artificial reefs they do it now not saying that's a good thing but you know what I'm getting at here
Don't listen to politicians. Listen to scientists
And most of the ocean’s’ biodiversity is associated with coral reefs, they are the rainforests of the sea.
Too bad !
O c e a n s o f a n o n y m o u s s o u r c e s
I’ll take things that aren’t going to happen for 400, Alex.
eagles2e don’t worry. This is just fake news. Lawl
Its obtuse how man has poisoned our world. I read in the book of revelation that this is coming to pass. Very disturbing, but most likely true.
if WE believe in things WE can't prove and WE value things WE don't understand ... ... are WE too DELUSIONAL & APATHETIC to actually care? conservation climate
In the 80s they told us it will be catastrophic if the population of the world reaches 5 billion. They said there'll be desertification and mass starvation. Could this be season three of project fear?
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! (Chapter 4,392)
Hey CNN, please tell us what other countries are doing to prevent this devastation. Based on this report looks like the Paris Climate Accord is failing miserably. Thank God President Trump withdrew the U.S. from that money sucking deal.
Bye bye oxygen
Plant sea weed They work same as trees... except underwater Imagine that !!! Ikr ! Shocked I tell you
People are stupid.
HEARDTHIS20YEARSAGO
FakeNews
Humanity should know better!
Won't they evolve according to Charles Darwin?
Again, this shows how our actions on land is affecting the climate and lives in water. We really need to take climate change seriously.
70-90 in 20 years. My god these are dumbest scientists. Can an alarmist get some less fake data for Christ sakes?!?!?
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