It's truly outrageous of these corals. German climate saviors toil daily in talk shows, at government ministries, and at asphalt demonstrations, proclaiming the impending end of the world – and what do the corals do? They just keep growing. And at a record pace.
Imagine the ingratitude: While we're whistling about "tipping points" that will supposedly cause all marine life to evaporate, the reefs are happily celebrating underwater orgies and growing as if they hadn't even read the UN climate report. Even after the "dramatic" decline, which many an editor whispers into the camera with a trembling voice, the coral cover is higher than in the years we were once sold as our last reprieve.
The corals, those unruly beasts, simply refuse to do what German climate prophets expect of them: die. While the headlines about the great "coral extinction" dramatically light up, the reefs are happily celebrating growth parties at record levels. Instead of pale skeletons: colorful underwater raves. But who wants to report on flourishing life when the narrative of the impending end of the world clicks so well? In the climate show, the rule is: facts only get in the way if they aren't apocalyptic enough.
All the record highs date back—how could it be more cynical?—to the 2020s, of all years. The years in which, according to the apocalypticists, the global climate should have collapsed long ago. But instead of admitting that Mother Nature doesn't follow talk show scripts or CO₂ tables, they prefer to continue to lie. With pathos, Photoshop, and public-service passion.
Because what would the climate crisis be without death?
And what would modern faith be without its heretics?
The answer is simple: good news. And, as we all know, that doesn't fit into a headline.
Since 1986, Australian scientists have measured the reef's coral cover annually, meticulously tracking every change. Until the turn of the millennium, the reef was largely stable, but in the early 2000s it began to shrink, and by 2012, its original cover had declined by more than half. Not surprisingly, the reporting became more pessimistic. Researchers predicted that climate change and warmer waters would again reduce coral cover by half by 2022, leaving almost nothing remaining.
Then something surprising happened. The reef began to recover. But the media coverage didn't. In fact, the ever-climate-warning newspaper The Guardian wrote the reef's obituary in 2014. But over the next decade, the reef recovered spectacularly. By 2021, coral cover was higher than in any other year since records began. Then it continued to rise, remaining at almost impossibly high levels throughout 2022 and 2023. Did the media celebrate? Hardly. They either ignored the dramatic recovery or portrayed it as a temporary anomaly before the inevitable end. Instead of reporting the good news, the Guardian declared in 2023 that the high plateau showed that the recovery had "stalled."
Last year, an even higher record level of coral cover was recorded, but this good news was also almost completely ignored by the media. This brings us to 2025. The latest data shows that coral cover has declined in 10 out of 11 sectors, with two sectors experiencing the largest declines within a single year. Finally, the media was back to doomsday headlines, and they didn't hold back: CNN reported that the Great Barrier Reef was "destroyed."
But remember: Large year-to-year fluctuations are typical; this year's declines were from the record levels of 2024; one sector has the highest coral cover ever; and the cover of the entire reef is "only" the fourth highest ever recorded since systematic monitoring began. Across the reef as a whole, cover is still higher than 2021, which itself was higher than any other year on record. All the years with the highest cover on the reef occurred in the 2020s, and yet the media continues to paint a bleak picture.
Source: “Bjorn Lomborg: Media reef madness a great barrier to good policy”, Financial Post, October 21, 2025
https://financialpost.com/opinion/bjorn-lomborg-reef-madness-great-barrier-good-policy
Source: Reef reports hub, AIMS (The Australian Institute of Marine Science)
https://www.aims.gov.au/research-topics/monitoring-and-discovery/monitoring-great-barrier-reef/reef-reports-hub
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