For those who don't live in Australia, they don't care about the Reef.

"Australia's Great Barrier Reef is just fine. It does have some dead spots, mostly caused by old age."

A remark typical of the "Conservativly Ignorant" - and the concept 'old age' just does not really apply to a 'Gaia-like' structure like the GBR, whose existence is indefinite, till the environment in which it thrives, changes.

Many of these alleged disasters were suggested projections based on incomplete data - this has already been discussed in this thread WHY this happens and only those with an agenda to deny problems at any cost cause they are lazy or in the pay of someone else with an agenda to push and stick their heads up their arse keep bringing up this line.

As for the increased acidity situation, only the foolishly ignorant and lazy claim that there CAN be no problem. It IS of concern - true it may not happen, just like there may not be a drunken lunatic speeding thru every red light at every intersection that you drive thru, but only the fool would not watch out to see if there is, and be prepared to take avoiding action. We call this in Australia "Defensive Driving".