"The Great Barrier Reef will become 'functionally extinct' within decades at the current rate of global warming..."

It has been stated over and over again, on this forum and others, that the Pacific Ring of Fire is in a period of unusually high activity. Underground volcanoes are warming the Pacific Ocean, threatening the health of The Great Barrier Reef as well as softening the ice at the edges of Antarctica. It is not just bad science to call this Global Warming, it is dishonest.