With our warmer baseline temperatures, every time a big El Niņo event occurs, it puts coral reefs at risk worldwide. But reefs can recover from bleaching events (slowly). Not with the intense tourist activity that Australia subjects the reef to, however.
But the solution to helping the Great Barrier Reef has more to do with getting tourists away from the area. It is proven that all the tourism activity is bringing the entire reef to the brink. One major culprit is sunscreen.
http://www.vice.com/read/wrecking-the-reef-v22n12Also, dumping dredge waste.
Australia is responsible for killing it...not some midwestern cow having a nice, long, wet fart.
The most egregious offense committed by those obsessed with global warming is that they ignore the real causes of most environmental degradation and instead break it down to "well I believe in global warming and windmills so I don't have to put any further thought into this. Haha deniers."
