The Great Barrier Reef and Climate Change: An Environmental Essay

This essay delves into the critical issue of climate change and its devastating effects on the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system. It begins by introducing the concept of climate change and its broad impacts, highlighting the Great Barrier Reef's vulnerability. The main body of the essay explores the causes of climate change, particularly global warming and the role of greenhouse gases, and how these factors contribute to rising ocean temperatures, coral bleaching, and ocean acidification. The essay also examines the observed impacts, including the widespread coral bleaching events and the acceleration of extreme weather events. Furthermore, the essay emphasizes the need for immediate action, suggesting strategies like recycling, promoting eco-friendly practices, educating the public, and encouraging the use of renewable energy sources to address the threats. The essay concludes by reiterating the severity of climate change and the urgent need for governmental and individual efforts to protect the Great Barrier Reef and mitigate the environmental consequences.

Climate Change
Essay

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Climate changes is a long time period changes in the normal atmospheric condition
patterns which is specify for the world local, territorial and world-wide climates and these
changes have a broad ranges which helps to observed the changes in climates. In this essay it
discuss that how climate changes effect the Great Barrier Reef, it is the worldwide biggest coral
reef system which is composed over the 2.900 respective reefs and over 900 solid ground are
expansion over the 2.300 kilometre over the area of approximately 344,400 sq km (Change,
2019). The climate changes is the greatest threat for the reefs which is not good for them, so it
discuss the recommand which helps to overcome this threatens.
MAIN BODY
Global warming is the process of long-way temperature change of World surface, which
impact a climate, the contemporary climate changes are include some worldwide heating which
effect on world climate patters. The current situation of global average temperature is more rapid
as compare to previous years. The reason of climate changes are effect the Great Barriers Reef
by doing such activities such as burning fossils fuels, greenhouses gases for the atmosphere,
carbon dioxide and methane all this harmful gases harmful gases are impact the climate. The
green gases are warm the air by absorbing the head radiated by the earth and there gases amplify
which causing the earth to take more energy from the sunlight which can he redated back into the
space. Due to climate changes wildfires, explaining the heat and other things are becoming more
common. Increased the warming in the Arctic which has been contribute for melting the
permafrost, glacial retreat and ice melt in sea. The worldwide directing coral scientistic assertion
the 6th aggregate whiteness circumstance which is evolution across the large barriers reef which
is formalized observing the aviation (Clayton and Karazsia, 2020). The great Barriers Reef
Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) are habitual that observation aviation are being conduct this
event. Aerial survey is revealed that the bleaching of sixty per cent off the corals of five hundred-
Kilometre long of the coral reef between the innsail and Mackay this survey is ongoing the
southern sections of the reef and most of the scientist anticipate the further widespread the
belching of similar severity are be revealed. The coral belching occurs the oversea overhead
temperature which is hot for too lengthy and this feat the corals reefs. The main reason of
weather alteration is the changes is also happen the sea, it take up about thirty per cenrt of the
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carbon dioxide is free into the standard atmosphere by burning the fuels and because of this
water to change into acidic or harmful water which impact negative to the life of marine . Ocean
levels is also increasing because of the energy contraction by improver of melting ice sheet on
glacier. The temperature is rising in land and oceans by increasing the harmful gases and other
greenhouse gases, the Carbon Dioxide level are been improving steadily for much than one
hundred years by burning of fuels, housing much heat energy by standard atmosphere are
conducive in the weather changes (Hiatt and Beyeler,2020). The Barrier Reef is the finest and
decomposable earthy ecosystems in the worldwide, but whether changes is the biggest
challenges for the reefs around the worldwide. The impact the coral reef are caused a different
structure like coral reef velacshing, the coral experience heath tension the throw out a atomic
agales which lives insides their tissues by revealing their white skeletons. The marine heath ways
are effect the 3 mass coral reef which whiteness the event on the Great Barriers Reef in 5 years
by reduction the reef water corals by as some 50%. Climate changes are accelerative the relative
frequency and degree of intense weather events. The Coastal regions is like a large barriers coral
reef which are especially exposed for harming the wind storm, swollen and storms. This things
causing the significant damage the coral reefs. People or Governments needs to take some
actions which helps to address the threats which is facing the Great barriers reef such as people
need to start recycling the productions and start adapting the suitable method, and it helps to
reduce the cost Eco- friendly process by eliminates the waste. But they need to sure that they
collect the disrated paper, glass, plastics and electric products to their local recycling certainer.
There are many more methods such educate the people, create awareness campaigns, encourage
the use of relatable energies and many more (Tang, 2019).
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CONCLUSION
In this essay it discuss the topic of climate change, because of human caused the climate
Change is the biggest problem which put huge completions across the society and the
environment. In this essay it discuss that why climate changes are treating the Great Barrier Reef
and government need to take some necessary steps to address the threats by facing the Great
Barriers Reef.
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References
Books and Journal
Change, C., 2019. The Future of Our Pasts: Engaging cultural heritage in climate action Outline
of Climate Change and Cultural Heritage. International Council on Monuments and
Sites-ICOMOS.
Clayton, S. and Karazsia, B.T., 2020. Development and validation of a measure of climate
change anxiety. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 69, p.101434.
Hiatt, R.A. and Beyeler, N., 2020. Cancer and climate change. The Lancet Oncology, 21(11),
pp.e519-e527.
Tang, K.H.D., 2019. Climate change in Malaysia: Trends, contributors, impacts, mitigation and
adaptations. Science of the Total Environment, 650, pp.1858-1871.
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