Aloha kākou and Happy Aloha Friday. The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is a wonderful place to visit. If you can make it part of your bucket list, then I highly recommend visiting. It’s a once in a lifetime experience. I had the opportunity to visit Australia and the Great Barrier Reef. The Living Reef was the highlight of my visit.
I landed in Sidney and traveled up to through the Gold Coast to Brisbane, and then a short hop over to the Whitsunday Islands. Where I stayed at Hayman Island Resort for two weeks. This was before a cyclone devastated the resort. Hayman Island resort has since been rebuilt into a modern-day tourist mecca.
I took several tours into the Great Barrier Reef. I swam with the coral fishes. Snorkeled in the reef and fed the Barracuda which were hanging around for our lunch scraps. I had heard that the coral reefs were dying. That pollution and man-made climate change was causing a massive die-off of the corals. But that’s not what I observed. The reef was very much alive despite the rumors that the reef was dead. I heard there was mass bleaching of the coral because of warming waters. That also wasn’t true.
Is Man-Made Global Warming threatening the Great Barrier Reef coral? I began investigating starting with talking with the tour guides and the local native fishermen. Surely, the people that work and live at the reef edge would know. I asked scientists with mixed results. Scientists tend to get their funding from organizations that expect specific results. To the contrary, data show that corals are thriving in modestly warmer waters, and the corals are expanding their range. Even in Hawai’i, the corals are growing.
What about this scientific consensus that says we should be worried about a looming climate catastrophe? While some scientists believe Earth’s climate is changing, the majority of climatologists are not particularly alarmed. The climate, weather, whatever it is they call it, has always been changing and the planet will continue to change since its formation.
Hawai’i Pajama Boy Senator, Brian Schatz, announced passing a Climate Crisis bill. With the help of Albert Gore and his wonderful Internet that he invented. It’s always good for our politicians to waste taxpayers’ money on trying to fix what ain’t broken, like the weather. What exactly was passed is still not clear, but I’m sure we’ll get the bill in higher energy rates.
I’ll never forget the short time I spent in Australia, and I hope to visit again sometime in the future. One thing I’ve learned is there is no such thing as “Man Made” climate crisis. Not from a worldwide abstraction, but from the local environment. There is the Great Gyer, the Pacific Garbage Patch, also known as the Pacific trash vortex, that spans from the West Coast of North America to Japan. There are actually five ocean garbage patches around the world that could be cleaned up, but if only the contributing nations tried.
Environmentalists seem to always take the costliness of solutions for the least effective results. Put up a windmill, solar panels, and build more batteries, the costliness of solutions, and only get more toxic pollution to clean up later. It’s the same with ocean trash and clean air. Their solutions are always expensive and unrealistic. Why not just pick up and broom and a waste basket to collect the rubbish? Simple, inexpensive, and easy peasy. We don’t need carbon capture schemes and more windmills.
Instead of the United Nations and the World Health Organization trying to control the human population and climate through regulations and dangerous vaccines. These organizations should be cleaning up the existing trash instead of producing more environmental rubbish. But they don’t want to address the simple solutions. They want more control over government programs to restrict food, water, and land usage. It’s easier to control people by frightening them and creating industry boogeymen.
The Living Reef will be here long after humans have come and gone. The Earth is a self-healing, self-renewing organism that will outlive humans. This planet has survived mass extinctions, ice ages, tectonic plates, volcanoes, asteroids, floods, and wildfires. But a few plastic bottles and Styrofoam will neither harm the planet today, nor tomorrow. If we want a cleaner planet, then we need to spend time and money cleaning the trash in the oceans, building better landfills, and creating less toxic government waste. That’s how we save humans first. The planet will always be here for us.
— MAGA —
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