Simon Donner
Lacks context
84% of the world’s reefs recently experienced bleaching-level heat stress, but not all were ‘completely bleached’
Claim:
More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching.
-0.5Low
Futurism story on Great Barrier Reef compromised by sensational headline
“The content is almost all correct, but the attention-grabbing headline is wrong and isn’t supported by the quotes from two scientists or by the rest of the content.”
1.8Very high
Analysis of "Large Sections of Australia’s Great Reef Are Now Dead, Scientists Find"
While natural temperature fluctuations (due to El Niño, for example) have always occurred, they are now superimposed on a warmer background due to human-induced global warming. That causes mass coral bleaching to happen more frequently.