foreign we've now had three major bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef in 98 2002 and again just recently in 2016. we zigzagged along the whole length in a helicopter and fixed Wing plane we put about 100 people underwater the extent and severity of this bleaching is off the chart typically a bleached Coral is nutritionally compromised but this time around we discovered an additional phenomenon many of the corals we surveyed were already dead they actually cooked and that's because the temperatures this time around were so extreme already in 2016 severe Coral bleaching has also been
recorded across the Pacific Ocean in Fiji across the Indian Ocean in the Maldives and the Seychelles and even in the southern Red Sea similar events are predicted across the Caribbean and Micronesia in a year in which the impacts of heat stress on the global ocean have reached unprecedented extremes as the distribution of marine species continues to change as Storm surges continue to intensify as sea ice and Glacier melts accelerate and as sea level rise and human displacement intensifies countries around the world in Paris last year have committed to a rapid transition away from fossil fuels
towards a more sustainable renewable energy Paris marked the moment when the world finally decided to heed the ever-rising mountain of evidence that have been piling up for years and began instead to Galvanize our focus is foreign
