And then the Queensland government is trying to get one of the wolrds largest coal mines built just off the reef 'to help the economy' instead of trying to take preventative measures and save the latgest source of tourism income in the state if not the whole of Australia. Where has the common sense in this world gone??
Meanwhile they are trying to say that parts of the reef are fine so the international tourists don't stop coming. Politicians surely are the dumbest people in society.
I'm Australian, and I partly blame the government (federal and state) for dedicating too little, too late for the protection of a massive natural structure.
They could've taken earlier precautions like gathering data at a larger rate etc. to analyze and use that to spread the word with (even) more convincing evidence. Than again, so could other countries. It's on the entire world, not just Australia or just America or China
I'm incredibly sad for the generations of people who will never be able to see how beautiful this planet once was. I can only imagine how it was millions of years ago. It's really sad that one day this planet will never look the same
@@alexchun6876 Nah, 75 years ago it looked near the same still lots of pollution due to the industrial revolution in the late 1800's more like 200-250 years ago
@@pwrovr9k731 The colonists ripped up lands in North America; they literally deforested areas and destroyed plains upon plains of life. The world would look incredibly different thousands of years ago.
Look at it our point of view. I live in the Philippines, and temperatures have soared, as in SOARED. My mom said it never reached 34 degrees Celsius in her time. Today it reaches up to 38. Also remember we only have 2 seasons here, where summer takes up half the year. And climate change is real and visible here, even the fiscal and social conservative political parties here agree with the facts. The mountain range beside my house has seen less and less trees and more floods coming down onto our valley. To deniers: this has something to do with climate change. This isn't seasonal. I asked my parents, grandparents, great grandparents - in their time, you could wear a suit outside. Today, I can't even wear a fricking polo shirt outside without exponentially sweating.
Couldn't agree more. It's getting hotter and hotter every year in the Philippines. Back then air conditioners are luxuries. Today they are necessities. And Filipinos still don't take climate change seriously.
Changes are really evident in Vietnam too, riverbanks in the Mekong Delta are plummeting down the water with people's homes and roads, the coming summer is forecast to be hotter than all the last ones, in some region of the country it's well over 40 degree, last year in the Mekong Delta the "flood season" didn't came for the first time in 70 years, resulting in soil getting too salty and unfit for cultivating many usual crops due to sea water getting too far in, at the same time there was a drought in the Highland region, they all happened with new record figures compared to data dating back decades... everything is literally happening before our eyes.
But if all other countries are still half-arse about climate change and keep polluting the water, it wouldnt help either. Joss stated that the global warming is to be blamed causing global bleaching event happening worldwide. So the keyword here is global. The health of the reef is everyone's responsibility (Im looking at you China stop polluting the air already). Even if Australia promotes their emission targets by the end of 2017 it only accounts for less than approx 2% of world's emission. That said, you are correct in a way since locally Australia's emission per capita number is more than twice compared to China which has the most population even though Australia is contributing the world less than 10% of China's emission. So it is still something the Aussies still have to worry about. Better switch from coal immediately.
China currently is in the process of transferring completely to renewable energy sources, installing more solar power in a year than many countries ever have Secondly Australia is the one exporting all the coal to china, so in reality its the Australian governments fault for significantly subsidising mining, encouraging the burning of fossil fuels due to cost effectiveness.
I guess we don't have much choice here. Even the Greens are terrible, but at least Di Natale is better than Hanson-Young. Liberal, Labor, One Nation, Xenophon
I guess its hard for people to care about the earth when you live in a city with concrete all around and the only green you see is either the planted trees on the side of the street, lawns, and on the plate. Then when you go on a vacation or holiday and go snorkeling you see some natural nature you think everything is beautiful whether its dead or not because VACATION!
You aren't doing anything more than those you demonize. Prove to the world how important it really is by donating anything an any money you don't need to survive. Then maybe we can start a conversation.
I literally cannot believe you just posted this video, I had a speed trial exam today where I had to write an article on coral bleaching of the great barrier reef, what a coincidence!
You guys forgot to mention that coral reefs can't recover at all if the seaweed isn't eaten off of the coral. That can't happen at anywhere close to the rate it needs to if overfishing isn't solved.
usually the media uses clickbait, so calling the great barrier reef dead means more clicks. So no one is actually calling it dead, news outlets just use it as clickbait
Aside from the other dude belittling the headlines as clickbait, even though it is a little, it does in fact get the attention of those who wouldn't otherwise care. The more people who care, the more pressure the government has to do something about it. I wouldnt so easily dismiss the use of calling it dead for attention.
Nudes at 1250 Subscribers I just don't think it's fair to mock someone (referring to the "Ha") when you don't know how or if they are contributing to help the environment.
Hey, great subject and great video, though I'm a bit disappointed that you linked the survivability of reefs to temperature only. Corals and algae are a very fragile eco-system, and needs specific conditions to grow: salinity, opacity of the water, oxygen levels and temperature. This means that corals can die in various ways : increase of salinity, high influx of sediments and/or pollutants, changes in the sea level and in temperature. Most of these changes are not directly related to temperature (like sedimentation and pollution). I think it's a bad idea to give the impression that the environmental crisis is only linked to greenhouse gases, it's also about how we manage pollutants, bio-diversity, deforestation, access to water, etc... These issues are deeply connected and we cannot resolve one issue without resolving the others.
These aren't just mere assumptions based on minimal observations. Marine experts are able to test salinity, oxygen and nutrient levels, as well as water temperature and many other factors. Scientists take all these variables into consideration and look at the data. If over a 5 year period they see no drastic change outside that of the standard deviation of values of salinity, oxygen and nutrient levels of the marine water that are to be expected in the affected area, yet they observe drastic changes in water temperature paired with the knowledge of how reefs function and the necessity of zooxanthellae for energy and nutrients as well as how these organisms react to temperature changes, they can accurately asses that the changing water temperature is the most likely cause for the degeneration of the reefs. This is science, they are not trying to give impression that these reef deaths are linked to greenhouse gasses, they are providing their best analysis based on the evidence they have. Science does not push an agenda, it simply provides the most probabilistic conclusions to the observed problems at hand.
Maybe I didn't express myself clearly enough. I totally get that the rise in ocean temperature is the main culprit here, and obviously it's the reason why bleeching happens. I was just underlining the fact that there are a variety of factors that can also influence the stability of these ecosystems. I'm not an expert on the subject but I would be really surprised if the rise in temperature is the only factor influencing coral growth worldwide. First of all, because the ocean level are also rising which is also a problem (it's linked to global warming, but the effect on corals is different since it influences the amount of sunlight received, and unlike temperature, it probably won't go back to normal in a week or two). I would also be very very surprised if there are no coral reef being damaged by pollutants and/or a high sedimentation. These reefs are always near the coast and too many countries do not monitor their waste and just throw everything into the sea. Sorry if it sounded like I was trying to push an agenda, I was just trying to explain that this problem is even more complicated that what is explained in the video (although for the great barrier reef it might "just" be it).
We will learn when the "last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream is poisoned, and we realize that we cannot eat money."
Not as dead as my insides 😭😭😭😭😭 Save the reefs. stop pollution and damage done to the reefs. I myself come from a place surrounded by wonderful reefs. I am a Maldivian. And its dying. We should spread awareness about the importance of having a reef. Please help save the environment 🌲🌳🌴🌲🌲🌳🍀🌵🌴🌳🌲👌.
It is actually countries like Maldives that would suffer the most due to global warming, due to the fact that even a meter rise in sea level would destroy our islands. It’s a shame really.
This is one of the most concise & easy to follow explanations of coral bleaching stories I've ever seen - and this is my core business. Great work! Very informative & should be watched by all!
snowflake this is alarmist crap it is al biased, any warming tiny hence it is not sure to warming and of course coral can migrate to more suitable waters. There sea has a variety of temps, and life at all temps the coral will migrate to cooler water is necessary. Reefs can and do recover but they are fighing our with other sea life such as seaweed etc... the best adapted life takes over and coral can more to places were it was previously too cold for them.
Coral can spawn. Once in the water, larvae ‘swim’ to the ocean surface. If they are not eaten, they eventually settle to the ocean floor and attach to a hard surface. Once attached, they metamorphose into a coral polyp and begin to grow, dividing in half. As more and more polyps are added, a coral colony develops and eventually begins to reproduce.
Well, by using your computer, and other technological gadgets, and your car...you are killing it. Passively, but still killing it. Denounce society, get a horse and buggy, and go live with the Amish. Otherwise, don't cry over something you aren't willing to help.
Rythem It's all planned in our genes. We caused so many problems because human is greedy, but realize that causing those problems will force us to solve it, and in this progress, we extend our knowledge. Though this won't make us live more happily, living like monkeys or cavemen of course have as equal happiness as living as modern humans, but more technology and knowledge give us more "resistance", when it comes to some unpresidential challenges, for example, the earth will eventually become unlivable, and if we just stay simple and living in Ancient Greek time, we will never be able to reverse our destiny as being destroyed. But with our technology and knowledge, which were gained and accumulated by our greediness, which, though had caused so many problems, also helped us to overcome these, we could possibly solve this seemingly inevitable destiny, maybe we are be able to do space traveling when that day comes. I think that's the mystery of human, what keep making us cause problems also make us stronger and having more control and grasp of the world. For instance, if it's not that human are so greedy and always want more money, and that we are so greedy and always want to have a better life standard tho it's already good enough, so many things wouldn't be invented, and because the inventions are the demonstration of our understanding of the world, without being able to make those we might not be able to perceive what's really going on around us. things such as phones, computers, wouldn't exist, and that earth will eventually become unlivable, Gamma ray can destroy all of us, wouldn't be known, which are the essential challenges for us in the long term. our greediness motivates us to develop, it's a interesting thing.
it's a god damned shame that all coral reefs will soon follow the fate of this coral reef. if you want to see them, do it soon. the attenuation will be rapid and severe.
notice how she said in the video how soon the annual bleaching will occurred will depend on where we reduce carbon emissions not if it will occurred. we are already doom just enjoy life and lets have an awesome goodbye party
jcdf2 They won't evolve though... All animals have usually had tens of thousands of years to evolve and adapt... Global warming has happened in the past 30 years or so...
Galarian Corsola brought me here and I'm glad it did. Guess the old saying about how if you continue to pollute the sea, it'll eventually come back to haunt you was true.
JJ Foo I think because most carbon emissions originate from industrial processes, which most people don't associate with mass cow farming, but in reality it is
i laugh at vegans who wont eat honey, or have an egg. not because they are trying to save emissions or something noble, but because they have a guilt trip about being human. sure we don't have to kill any animals to live, but hey, they are helpful to our existence, might as well use what they have to offer us.
Sadhiq Nazeer I know because they tell me... I'm talking about the specific individuals I would laugh at, and how I don't hate on vegetarians or vegans generally.
i know right? these people need to sell their car, not use plastic, fill their backyard with plants, donate to wildlife conservation organizations, and get some solar panels if they actually care about the future of this planet
Austin Jones that costs monEY. Us humans need to buy food, pay bills, pay taxes, and a lot more things, what makes you think we can afford to do all of that?
I am typing this from India, a relatively poor country where in a chilly 15 degrees "winter" I put my AC at a crisp 27 degrees while charging my Mac and iPhone simultaneously, turned on the geyser for a midnight shower, switched on 4 lights including the floor lamp. And that's just my room. I am hopeless. Such videos keep reminding me to keep a tab on myself but folks equally or more fortunate than me need to realise the same, collectively.
I just want to say thank you Vox! I’m doing my HPQ (This project qualification thing for students in Secondary School where you have to pick a question and write an essay after doing lots of research etc.) on coral bleaching and possible solutions to save the reefs, and this video has been greatly inspirational and informative! Thank you for your hard work!!
There are Biologists in Hawaii, who are selectively breeding heat resistant coral and planting them in dead reefs. It's shown a lot of promise and could probably be done at the Great Reef as well.
Also, you guys do realize that there have been hundreds of fluctuations in temp in the past, even when there could not possibly have been human interference. Some, like the Roman warm period, were even warmer than it is now.
Evidence suggests it is much warmer now than in the Roman warm period. Though it has been warmer in Earth's history, it has never been hotter than today in the holocene.
The roman warm period was a period this meaning it changed either getting hotter or colder, but what is happening now is that we are changing climate slowly, we are setting new higher averages which over a time period like the roman warm period will not decrease therefore giving us a unrecoverable climate change
meanwhile, Australian government is working hard to promote coal power plants, selling mining rights to Indian companies, and the Australians loved it so much that they voted for this government continuously.
Coral (not the live animal but the calcium carbonate part) is used in bone grafting due to to its porous structure. It is the perfect skeletal framework on which new bone can grow.
The earth is fine. It had gone through billions of years of warming, cooling, and asteroids pounding, and still be able to survive. The earth is going nowhere, we are.
Hello, I’m a 13 year old Australian. I can’t even explain how horrible our parliament is at caring for the environment. Growing up this is all our school talked about. Every time I hear about things like this I can’t explain how much I feel like the previous generations have failed mine. I always want to try and help but I’m to young.
Useful info. When you said it's not dead I was really happy thinking that the news I read earlier might be false. But end of the video got to know its a long wait for the reef.
I like how straight away she answers her question but still leave an interesting part so you have a reason to watch the rest of the video. She didn't say "Have we really killed the great barrier reef? find out by watching!" Nah man she went straight to the point.
Why can't we genetically modify the coral system to make them survive higher temperatures and more polluted waters? I understand that this isn't ideal and that GMOs are highly controversial but I believe that this may be a useful tool to use along side trying to mediate the effects of CLIMATE CHANGE (global warming is misleading and possibly inaccurate) to buy coral reefs and the biodiversity they harbour more time.
While this would be an interesting idea as a last ditch effort to save the species, climate change and ocean management practices are so damaging that there is not only this one warming ocean problem. Another problem aside from warmer water temperature (which harms the coral organism itself), is ocean acidification, caused by CO2 dissolving into the water and lowering the pH. Ocean acidification is a big issue for any organism that incorporates calcium carbonate into its body. In the coral's case, it's skeleton is made up of calcium carbonate, so the acidification will affect the coral's ability to maintain or create a skeleton (especially a problem for creating new skeleton in those tiny "baby" corals) through simple chemistry, not in control of the organism or anything that the organism could do (or be altered to do). There are many organisms that incorporate calcium carbonate- unfortunately several of them are critical to the food chain (at the bottom).
This makes me cry. Imagine that the next generation, our kids, won't know of coral reefs being a real thing, just a beautiful mythical places. What will we tell them when they ask what happened?
Virginia Beach, Virginia. I grabbed probably 6 pounds of bleached coral that had washed onto the beach. My favorite, in our attic now, is a probably 2 pound honeycomb coral the size of my hand.
Reduce the World's Human Population by 50% and Global Warming will no longer happen, suddenly all the Super Villains in all Superhero movies seem Righteous
yudhistirs Not a bad idea - a villain that wants to eradicate human life to save all other life. The best villains are the ones that are evil but still have a damn good point.
People in India use 1/10th the energy of people in the USA. So basicly a couple indian families use the same energy as a teenage girl who drives herself around in a big SUV. If you want to stop global warming we need to do stuff like put weight limits on vehicles and drop the minimum wage closer to India.
Thank you sooooo much for this video, I used it in my HPQ (Higher Project Qualification), my title was: ‘Can We Reverse Coral Bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef?’ & don’t worry, I cited you in me essay! Thanks for the amazing information!
Mate I'll tell you what, I'm studying in this right now and my mentor was the manager of the reef for the last decade and he said that there is no saving the reef and I completely agree. The great barrier Reef is literally like a 90 year old man with a bad smoking habit, him quitting smoking won't prolong his life that much
Props to this reporter,her pieces are always very informative and never disapoint!
sat vc, I agree!
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The only thing that disappoints is your spelling. But yes, I agree with you
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And then the Queensland government is trying to get one of the wolrds largest coal mines built just off the reef 'to help the economy' instead of trying to take preventative measures and save the latgest source of tourism income in the state if not the whole of Australia. Where has the common sense in this world gone??
Meanwhile they are trying to say that parts of the reef are fine so the international tourists don't stop coming. Politicians surely are the dumbest people in society.
FatCherub007 I'm really dissapointed they didn't touch on these contextual issues in the vid.
FatCherub007 perfectly put
Neon Bones exactly !
i pre-emptively upvoted your comments, but if you don't give me a source i will retract it.
I'm Australian, and I partly blame the government (federal and state) for dedicating too little, too late for the protection of a massive natural structure.
The Fifth Hour what could have they done against warning oceans?
Exactly this is a global problem not a local one.
They could've taken earlier precautions like gathering data at a larger rate etc. to analyze and use that to spread the word with (even) more convincing evidence. Than again, so could other countries. It's on the entire world, not just Australia or just America or China
They could also stop trying to put massive coal ports and mining projects right next to the reef
there was nothing they could do to stop the oceans from warming. the australian government is not responsible for this catastrophe.
I've been scuba diving in South East Asian and it's terrible to see how bad people treat the ocean. They drop their anchors wherever they want.
womp womp
Which one on south east asia?. Where the place you've been scuba diving In South east asia?, I mean which country?....
@i don’t know what to do here probably idk either
I'm incredibly sad for the generations of people who will never be able to see how beautiful this planet once was. I can only imagine how it was millions of years ago. It's really sad that one day this planet will never look the same
Kate Marsh try 75 years ago
@@alexchun6876 Nah, 75 years ago it looked near the same still lots of pollution due to the industrial revolution in the late 1800's more like 200-250 years ago
I can only imagine how North America looked before colonists.
@@pwrovr9k731 The colonists ripped up lands in North America; they literally deforested areas and destroyed plains upon plains of life. The world would look incredibly different thousands of years ago.
@Daniel Chang I hope you're being sarcastic.
Look at it our point of view. I live in the Philippines, and temperatures have soared, as in SOARED. My mom said it never reached 34 degrees Celsius in her time. Today it reaches up to 38. Also remember we only have 2 seasons here, where summer takes up half the year. And climate change is real and visible here, even the fiscal and social conservative political parties here agree with the facts. The mountain range beside my house has seen less and less trees and more floods coming down onto our valley. To deniers: this has something to do with climate change. This isn't seasonal. I asked my parents, grandparents, great grandparents - in their time, you could wear a suit outside. Today, I can't even wear a fricking polo shirt outside without exponentially sweating.
Zachary Hizon Deniers aren't actually denying climate change, but that climate change isn't man made.
Clement Young Ah well good point.
exponential sweating lmao
Couldn't agree more. It's getting hotter and hotter every year in the Philippines. Back then air conditioners are luxuries. Today they are necessities. And Filipinos still don't take climate change seriously.
Changes are really evident in Vietnam too, riverbanks in the Mekong Delta are plummeting down the water with people's homes and roads, the coming summer is forecast to be hotter than all the last ones, in some region of the country it's well over 40 degree, last year in the Mekong Delta the "flood season" didn't came for the first time in 70 years, resulting in soil getting too salty and unfit for cultivating many usual crops due to sea water getting too far in, at the same time there was a drought in the Highland region, they all happened with new record figures compared to data dating back decades... everything is literally happening before our eyes.
Myself as an Australian is really disappointed in the Australian government for not trying to protect the Great Barrier Reef
But if all other countries are still half-arse about climate change and keep polluting the water, it wouldnt help either.
Joss stated that the global warming is to be blamed causing global bleaching event happening worldwide. So the keyword here is global. The health of the reef is everyone's responsibility (Im looking at you China stop polluting the air already).
Even if Australia promotes their emission targets by the end of 2017 it only accounts for less than approx 2% of world's emission.
That said, you are correct in a way since locally Australia's emission per capita number is more than twice compared to China which has the most population even though Australia is contributing the world less than 10% of China's emission. So it is still something the Aussies still have to worry about. Better switch from coal immediately.
Out of anyone we should be one of the most concerned about meeting our emissions reductions targets, but we're not even on track to meet them.
How would they theoretically protect against sea water getting warmer because of consequences of the whole world's actions?
Out of anyone we should be one of the least concerned about reducing emissions since we emit almost nothing in comparison.
China currently is in the process of transferring completely to renewable energy sources, installing more solar power in a year than many countries ever have
Secondly Australia is the one exporting all the coal to china, so in reality its the Australian governments fault for significantly subsidising mining, encouraging the burning of fossil fuels due to cost effectiveness.
Am Australian - can confirm. They want to open a mine near it too, country is run by fooools.
Jayden so get outside with a placard and shout !
Jayden buy solar panels lol
Then stop voting them in Jayden... DUHHHHHHH
Jayden every country in the world is pretty much
I guess we don't have much choice here. Even the Greens are terrible, but at least Di Natale is better than Hanson-Young. Liberal, Labor, One Nation, Xenophon
I guess its hard for people to care about the earth when you live in a city with concrete all around and the only green you see is either the planted trees on the side of the street, lawns, and on the plate. Then when you go on a vacation or holiday and go snorkeling you see some natural nature you think everything is beautiful whether its dead or not because VACATION!
You aren't doing anything more than those you demonize. Prove to the world how important it really is by donating anything an any money you don't need to survive. Then maybe we can start a conversation.
Awesome comment.
@@dontforgettolike7127 bruh
I usually don't say this but I love this reporter. 10/10
I literally cannot believe you just posted this video, I had a speed trial exam today where I had to write an article on coral bleaching of the great barrier reef, what a coincidence!
Ellen Coonan Girl stfu
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Oh lucky you
It was JESUS! 😂
Ellen Coonan oh u lucky bastards😂
You guys forgot to mention that coral reefs can't recover at all if the seaweed isn't eaten off of the coral. That can't happen at anywhere close to the rate it needs to if overfishing isn't solved.
Interesting
But they do mention it. Around 5:50
dont tell them what to do dad
really? :o then you must tell this to the fishermen !
it's crazy how quick people can be to give up on a project and just call it dead.
usually the media uses clickbait, so calling the great barrier reef dead means more clicks. So no one is actually calling it dead, news outlets just use it as clickbait
it's not that far from the truth tho. but a headline is not all there is to the story.
Aside from the other dude belittling the headlines as clickbait, even though it is a little, it does in fact get the attention of those who wouldn't otherwise care. The more people who care, the more pressure the government has to do something about it. I wouldnt so easily dismiss the use of calling it dead for attention.
MsSomeonenew I hope so. We don't deserve to exist.
Did you actually watch the video?
More than half of the top third of the reef is dead.
Humanity is the problem.
Captain Fearless reeeaallllyyyy?????!???
Elle Beckaide
Yep, it also causes lots of other problems ( destroying the nature)
that comment you replied to went straight over your head
ignorance and carelessness is the problem.
When is it not?
We have to do something about our planet
IT'S THE ONLY PLACE WE HAVE
Nudes at 1250 Subscribers Are you?
Nudes at 1250 Subscribers I just don't think it's fair to mock someone (referring to the "Ha") when you don't know how or if they are contributing to help the environment.
Build more golf courses for Trump. #MAGA
Elon has other plans!
Nasa found 7 life-sustaining planets 40 light years away
Hey, great subject and great video, though I'm a bit disappointed that you linked the survivability of reefs to temperature only. Corals and algae are a very fragile eco-system, and needs specific conditions to grow: salinity, opacity of the water, oxygen levels and temperature. This means that corals can die in various ways : increase of salinity, high influx of sediments and/or pollutants, changes in the sea level and in temperature. Most of these changes are not directly related to temperature (like sedimentation and pollution).
I think it's a bad idea to give the impression that the environmental crisis is only linked to greenhouse gases, it's also about how we manage pollutants, bio-diversity, deforestation, access to water, etc... These issues are deeply connected and we cannot resolve one issue without resolving the others.
These aren't just mere assumptions based on minimal observations. Marine experts are able to test salinity, oxygen and nutrient levels, as well as water temperature and many other factors. Scientists take all these variables into consideration and look at the data. If over a 5 year period they see no drastic change outside that of the standard deviation of values of salinity, oxygen and nutrient levels of the marine water that are to be expected in the affected area, yet they observe drastic changes in water temperature paired with the knowledge of how reefs function and the necessity of zooxanthellae for energy and nutrients as well as how these organisms react to temperature changes, they can accurately asses that the changing water temperature is the most likely cause for the degeneration of the reefs. This is science, they are not trying to give impression that these reef deaths are linked to greenhouse gasses, they are providing their best analysis based on the evidence they have. Science does not push an agenda, it simply provides the most probabilistic conclusions to the observed problems at hand.
Maybe I didn't express myself clearly enough. I totally get that the rise in ocean temperature is the main culprit here, and obviously it's the reason why bleeching happens. I was just underlining the fact that there are a variety of factors that can also influence the stability of these ecosystems. I'm not an expert on the subject but I would be really surprised if the rise in temperature is the only factor influencing coral growth worldwide. First of all, because the ocean level are also rising which is also a problem (it's linked to global warming, but the effect on corals is different since it influences the amount of sunlight received, and unlike temperature, it probably won't go back to normal in a week or two). I would also be very very surprised if there are no coral reef being damaged by pollutants and/or a high sedimentation. These reefs are always near the coast and too many countries do not monitor their waste and just throw everything into the sea.
Sorry if it sounded like I was trying to push an agenda, I was just trying to explain that this problem is even more complicated that what is explained in the video (although for the great barrier reef it might "just" be it).
Maximilian bio daalakdakamkledey
Also since they need calcium I doubt heightened acidity helps them.
Ocean acidification is also a major cause of coral bleaching
Losing the Great Barrier Reef means losing +3 food and +2 science! D:
I see what you did there!
Twice over, it's a two-tile wonder
Build lighthouse for +2 food.
Mysteryman XX its about civ
My God, when will we learn ...
when people drop all of their unimportant problems, and start focusing on the important ones
....... which is never I suppose?
+Map Wolf Like frogs in boiling water...
We will learn when the "last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream is poisoned, and we realize that we cannot eat money."
When will we learn... That our actions have CONSEQUENCES!
Me: Something needs to be done to save the planet
Goverment: " Searches for more oil"
Our leaders are evil. But so are the masses that support them.
@@DarkWallay apathy towards tyranny is the worst evil of all.
"Just ended a strong relationship"
"Aww are you okay?"
"It wasn't mine."
-Literally us to the corals and the algae
took me a minute to get this
Joss Fong should make more videos
NOoo, she's too distracting.
i can listen to her, all day.
Basically this... Its like a Mclaren F1 explaining fuel to air ratio.
She needs to read news
she should say something about fukushima killing the planetWTF
Joss Fong: Vox Goddess
AK K And M. Sanjayan is quickly proving himself to be the Vox king
The comment I was looking for.
AK K damn she's hot. Vox knows the only way to get people to watch news is with hot chicks.
FYI I like Joss Fong first and foremost for her brain and reporting skill, her looks is just an added bonus.
AK K 😂 👌 man. 😉 😉
Not as dead as my insides 😭😭😭😭😭
Save the reefs. stop pollution and damage done to the reefs. I myself come from a place surrounded by wonderful reefs. I am a Maldivian. And its dying. We should spread awareness about the importance of having a reef. Please help save the environment 🌲🌳🌴🌲🌲🌳🍀🌵🌴🌳🌲👌.
I am in my exhibition year and will absolutely include this as part of our aware-fair (action)
at this point your probably underwater :/
We so just dig a hole and make a city in it until the Earth heals and only a few of us can come out
mother nature made a huge mistake giving humans a big brain.
It is actually countries like Maldives that would suffer the most due to global warming, due to the fact that even a meter rise in sea level would destroy our islands. It’s a shame really.
This is one of the most concise & easy to follow explanations of coral bleaching stories I've ever seen - and this is my core business. Great work! Very informative & should be watched by all!
i almost burst into tears. i dont want to kill the great barrier reef...
snowflake this is alarmist crap it is al biased, any warming tiny hence it is not sure to warming and of course coral can migrate to more suitable waters. There sea has a variety of temps, and life at all temps the coral will migrate to cooler water is necessary. Reefs can and do recover but they are fighing our with other sea life such as seaweed etc... the best adapted life takes over and coral can more to places were it was previously too cold for them.
What happens if the coral can't move faster than the water heats up?
Coral can spawn. Once in the water, larvae ‘swim’ to the ocean surface. If they are not
eaten, they eventually settle to the ocean floor and attach to a hard
surface. Once attached, they metamorphose into a coral polyp and begin
to grow, dividing in half. As more and more polyps are added, a coral
colony develops and eventually begins to reproduce.
I don't wanna kill off this creation,THIS CREATION THAT GOD CREATED FOR US!FOR US!!WE NEED TO KEEP IT ALIVE!!!
Well, by using your computer, and other technological gadgets, and your car...you are killing it. Passively, but still killing it.
Denounce society, get a horse and buggy, and go live with the Amish. Otherwise, don't cry over something you aren't willing to help.
I just love how stupid we are as a species
Rythem why
ZoupDe Loup because those few in power are obsessed with profits.
We're the only species able to reason yet we're so ignorant we don't use that ability for good. It's a generalization, but you get the point.
Adolf Hitler including your grammar and unoriginal profile name
Rythem It's all planned in our genes. We caused so many problems because human is greedy, but realize that causing those problems will force us to solve it, and in this progress, we extend our knowledge. Though this won't make us live more happily, living like monkeys or cavemen of course have as equal happiness as living as modern humans, but more technology and knowledge give us more "resistance", when it comes to some unpresidential challenges, for example, the earth will eventually become unlivable, and if we just stay simple and living in Ancient Greek time, we will never be able to reverse our destiny as being destroyed. But with our technology and knowledge, which were gained and accumulated by our greediness, which, though had caused so many problems, also helped us to overcome these, we could possibly solve this seemingly inevitable destiny, maybe we are be able to do space traveling when that day comes. I think that's the mystery of human, what keep making us cause problems also make us stronger and having more control and grasp of the world. For instance, if it's not that human are so greedy and always want more money, and that we are so greedy and always want to have a better life standard tho it's already good enough, so many things wouldn't be invented, and because the inventions are the demonstration of our understanding of the world, without being able to make those we might not be able to perceive what's really going on around us. things such as phones, computers, wouldn't exist, and that earth will eventually become unlivable, Gamma ray can destroy all of us, wouldn't be known, which are the essential challenges for us in the long term. our greediness motivates us to develop, it's a interesting thing.
"The battle isn't over, it's not too late for us to switch side" is pretty much the national motto of Italy.
It's a God damn shame it's dying
it's a god damned shame that all coral reefs will soon follow the fate of this coral reef. if you want to see them, do it soon. the attenuation will be rapid and severe.
The organisms of the coral reef will evolve and adapt. And if we really want to we can bring them back later on down the road.
notice how she said in the video how soon the annual bleaching will occurred will depend on where we reduce carbon emissions not if it will occurred. we are already doom just enjoy life and lets have an awesome goodbye party
jcdf2 They won't evolve though... All animals have usually had tens of thousands of years to evolve and adapt... Global warming has happened in the past 30 years or so...
The world will be poorer.
I needed this so much for my project. Ten times better than endless searching through articles.
Galarian Corsola brought me here and I'm glad it did. Guess the old saying about how if you continue to pollute the sea, it'll eventually come back to haunt you was true.
Why people still laugh at vegetarians or vegans, who try to cut down carbon emissions, and yet the same people is concern about global warming..
JJ Foo exactly the type of comment I was looking for 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
JJ Foo I think because most carbon emissions originate from industrial processes, which most people don't associate with mass cow farming, but in reality it is
i laugh at vegans who wont eat honey, or have an egg. not because they are trying to save emissions or something noble, but because they have a guilt trip about being human.
sure we don't have to kill any animals to live, but hey, they are helpful to our existence, might as well use what they have to offer us.
Dru Nature haha how do u know why vegans don't eat eggs? Telepathy? Also how does that represent the whole population
Sadhiq Nazeer I know because they tell me... I'm talking about the specific individuals I would laugh at, and how I don't hate on vegetarians or vegans generally.
This is so sad but it’s even more sad that people whatching this video then go on with what there doing? You can do something about this
i know right? these people need to sell their car, not use plastic, fill their backyard with plants, donate to wildlife conservation organizations, and get some solar panels if they actually care about the future of this planet
Good luck with that. Only a small group will help
Austin Jones that costs monEY. Us humans need to buy food, pay bills, pay taxes, and a lot more things, what makes you think we can afford to do all of that?
I am doing by not having a baby and avoiding carbon footprints.
Sweet button behind you there!
Jonah Lee big humble brag
I am typing this from India, a relatively poor country where in a chilly 15 degrees "winter" I put my AC at a crisp 27 degrees while charging my Mac and iPhone simultaneously, turned on the geyser for a midnight shower, switched on 4 lights including the floor lamp. And that's just my room. I am hopeless. Such videos keep reminding me to keep a tab on myself but folks equally or more fortunate than me need to realise the same, collectively.
I just want to say thank you Vox! I’m doing my HPQ (This project qualification thing for students in Secondary School where you have to pick a question and write an essay after doing lots of research etc.) on coral bleaching and possible solutions to save the reefs, and this video has been greatly inspirational and informative! Thank you for your hard work!!
Working class people need to be educated about the small changes they can do in their lifestyle to prevent Climate Change.
Quick, melt the poles for colder water!
BananiaMan™ kekekek
lol not how that works
or even better just talk nicely to the reef and ask them if they want to move nearer to the poles!
All we need to do is dump a giant ice cube in the ocean.
how about stop fukushimaWTF
I want to give her a hug
This channel opened my eyes to the fact that, there are so many things to learn in this planet alone.
You know what I like about this video? It's that the sources are in the description. I love that!
There are Biologists in Hawaii, who are selectively breeding heat resistant coral and planting them in dead reefs. It's shown a lot of promise and could probably be done at the Great Reef as well.
When I always watch videos on how the world is dying but I know I don't have any power to fix it.
Welcome to the world!
Spread awareness
Thankfully as the world is getting warmer, corals in colder areas will be able to grow and flourish, especially if the water level does rise.
Also, you guys do realize that there have been hundreds of fluctuations in temp in the past, even when there could not possibly have been human interference. Some, like the Roman warm period, were even warmer than it is now.
Evidence suggests it is much warmer now than in the Roman warm period. Though it has been warmer in Earth's history, it has never been hotter than today in the holocene.
Replace "Global Warming" with "Climate Change".
Edit: Ha he edited it (He forgot that Global Warming does not necessarily mean warming)
And then all the frozen methane gets released and oops california is now the equivelant of sahara.
The roman warm period was a period this meaning it changed either getting hotter or colder, but what is happening now is that we are changing climate slowly, we are setting new higher averages which over a time period like the roman warm period will not decrease therefore giving us a unrecoverable climate change
I visited the reefs last summer and it was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. It would be such a tragedy if the reed died.
this is why we need these channels
Came for the reefs, stayed for Joss.
Correct.
There is a really good documentary called chasing choral explaining this really good
Brossom 123 I agree
meanwhile, Australian government is working hard to promote coal power plants, selling mining rights to Indian companies, and the Australians loved it so much that they voted for this government continuously.
Coral (not the live animal but the calcium carbonate part) is used in bone grafting due to to its porous structure. It is the perfect skeletal framework on which new bone can grow.
i love how she talks....can listen to her all day..Great video!!!
Hey Vox, how do you guys make your cool infographics? Do you use a certain software or do you make it yourself?
Samson Nesser I'm sure they have an entire team dedicated to it.
Yes they do have a team.
Huge team of graphic designers and animators using Adobe After Effects and a bunch of nifty programs
The credits list everybody! We don't have a separate team for design and animation. And yes, we definitely do use After Effects. A lot. -joe
Save the Earth!!!!
The Earth is fine. Save life!
The earth is fine. It had gone through billions of years of warming, cooling, and asteroids pounding, and still be able to survive. The earth is going nowhere, we are.
Tony Hu Awsome bro! Look into going vegan and maybe things can begin to turn around
Liou David until the sun swallows it.
Well yea, until that lol
As the polar ice caps melt, we could start seeding artificial reefs further north.
Give some species a fighting chance.
off topic but I love her voice. She sounds really clear and gets the message across
Hello, I’m a 13 year old Australian. I can’t even explain how horrible our parliament is at caring for the environment. Growing up this is all our school talked about. Every time I hear about things like this I can’t explain how much I feel like the previous generations have failed mine. I always want to try and help but I’m to young.
that’s cool
“Pay no attention to the dead canary, this coal mine is perfectly safe”
I'm Australian and this makes me so upset. Our government has been so careless with the protection of the reef too :(
I will start cutting my greenhouse gas emissions for this girl..
As a creator myself, I really respect the quality of Vox's editing.
Useful info. When you said it's not dead I was really happy thinking that the news I read earlier might be false. But end of the video got to know its a long wait for the reef.
Vox: talk about corals
Me: i should see this in *minecraft*
luckily we can simulate the reefs in virtual worlds when they are gone
push me to the edge, all my friends are dead
true
"how dead is the Great Barrier Reef?"
"dead"
This so so sad. We only have so much longer left
I recently did a study of the coral reef system around Green Island, apart of the Great Barrier Reef. It was saddening how dull the system looks now.
Wow. It was interesting and I've learned something.
fun fact: coral has gone extinct and re-evolved many times throughout earth's history
Cool.
Should have started off with 'why reefs are vital to people.' ...maybe
I like how straight away she answers her question but still leave an interesting part so you have a reason to watch the rest of the video. She didn't say "Have we really killed the great barrier reef? find out by watching!" Nah man she went straight to the point.
Im from maldives and Im a witness to whatever she said. If we didnt step up all of it will go soon. Save earth
great barrier reef: *exists*
humans: **BEGONE THOT**
>XD
Why can't we genetically modify the coral system to make them survive higher temperatures and more polluted waters?
I understand that this isn't ideal and that GMOs are highly controversial but I believe that this may be a useful tool to use along side trying to mediate the effects of CLIMATE CHANGE (global warming is misleading and possibly inaccurate) to buy coral reefs and the biodiversity they harbour more time.
Harry Lloyd we are! Nasa is actually breeding more resilient corals in dangerous waters so they can breed with the surviving members and bleavh less!
While this would be an interesting idea as a last ditch effort to save the species, climate change and ocean management practices are so damaging that there is not only this one warming ocean problem. Another problem aside from warmer water temperature (which harms the coral organism itself), is ocean acidification, caused by CO2 dissolving into the water and lowering the pH. Ocean acidification is a big issue for any organism that incorporates calcium carbonate into its body. In the coral's case, it's skeleton is made up of calcium carbonate, so the acidification will affect the coral's ability to maintain or create a skeleton (especially a problem for creating new skeleton in those tiny "baby" corals) through simple chemistry, not in control of the organism or anything that the organism could do (or be altered to do). There are many organisms that incorporate calcium carbonate- unfortunately several of them are critical to the food chain (at the bottom).
Answer: Not dead
*Yet*
This makes me cry. Imagine that the next generation, our kids, won't know of coral reefs being a real thing, just a beautiful mythical places. What will we tell them when they ask what happened?
Virginia Beach, Virginia. I grabbed probably 6 pounds of bleached coral that had washed onto the beach. My favorite, in our attic now, is a probably 2 pound honeycomb coral the size of my hand.
#savethereefs
trickawesome y didnt they pin this???
dump ice cubes into the ocean. bam, done. you're welcome world.
Munden die
That’s would clause frozen animals and flooding...
King Casper more likely to ruin the salt concentration in the ocean
first name last name
Put salt in the ice cubes.
salt lowers the melting point of water
Blame the our goverment (australia) they wont do anything!!!! Still even in 2018
They cant cool the ocean from global warming..
I just realised how masterfully crafted the background song is
I could watch this host all day long, talking about anything.
Sad truth : humans have not even discovered sealife, not even 5%
But still we are already destroying it🧒🧒🧒🧒👧👧👧👧 go team human
Okay everybody: STOP WARMING UP THE PLANET! Thank you.
Your part of the problem.
*You're as in "you're also the problem".
stop making babies
Please share
Joss is the reason why Vox Rocks.
I missed vidoes from joss, shes my favorite reporter from vox
Reduce the World's Human Population by 50% and Global Warming will no longer happen, suddenly all the Super Villains in all Superhero movies seem Righteous
yudhistirs Not a bad idea - a villain that wants to eradicate human life to save all other life. The best villains are the ones that are evil but still have a damn good point.
People in India use 1/10th the energy of people in the USA. So basicly a couple indian families use the same energy as a teenage girl who drives herself around in a big SUV. If you want to stop global warming we need to do stuff like put weight limits on vehicles and drop the minimum wage closer to India.
yudhistirs yeah, lets kill off half of humanity instead of, I don't know, reducing our meat consumption and turning the damn AC's off
just drop some ice cubes in the ocean
Save the coral reefs, go vegan
This was a great little mini doc!
Thank you sooooo much for this video, I used it in my HPQ (Higher Project Qualification), my title was: ‘Can We Reverse Coral Bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef?’ & don’t worry, I cited you in me essay! Thanks for the amazing information!
Like so dead
Seems like this is the most hopeful outlook. Guarded, but hopeful.
This is top notch, high quality science video. Kudos to the ppl involved making this.
It's always been a dream of mine to visit the great barrier reef :( this is heartbreaking.
Very great visual vox as always
Mate I'll tell you what, I'm studying in this right now and my mentor was the manager of the reef for the last decade and he said that there is no saving the reef and I completely agree. The great barrier Reef is literally like a 90 year old man with a bad smoking habit, him quitting smoking won't prolong his life that much
I'm glad that I got to see the great barrier reef a few times already
I thought this was an intelligent and helpful video. I'm new to Vox, but you are winning my respect.
'This partnership breaks under heat stress"
my partnership breaks under any sort of stress
Man this vid is a real factory for commentary despair, guilt, and hatred for humanity.