You're a living Legend Peter. Thanks for the lifes work you've put in and still going. Cheers.

Thanks for following up on the long term growth rates. These varying or slowing down rates of growth with age of Coral need a lot more study. The record Coral cover we have today would seem to suggest some Scientists are not being honest in their reported data or on following it up.

Peter thank you for your information. You are so factual, easy to understand and justified in all your presentations. Keep up the good work and keep informing those of us that lack the evidence of the reef.

Selecting Porites of a similar diameter and where you choose them must kick up lots of variables i don't think you could comfortably eliminate. Tough job. Thanks Peter.

Your channel deserves million subscribers

Thank Peter. I am enjoying the presentations and finding them quite informative as well though provoking :)

This seems to always explain AIM: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair, How surprising is it that yet again we see a 'hockey stick' used in climate alarmism only to find, yet again, that it is the pasting of data from another source to change the result.

My old inches tape measure finally gave out so I got me a new fandangled cm one. Turns out everything I own is 2 1/2 time bigger than I thought :P

Could you talk about the area around Thursday Island and surrounding points?

Great vid

Can you cover growth rates in the coral triangle where corals are known to suffer from human impacts?

I know, deserves, and gets is different.

I would have thought resampling the original corals that were bored would have been best and easiest? Sampling the same corals eliminates a lot of variables, plus the bore hole already exists, It might be easier to expose the hole if its overgrown and take a new sample or reading? I'd be more than willing to take this study on if I could get the funding.....

Hi Peter. Have any studies been done on COTS to see if they are any good as fertilizer, or if they have any other use after being crushed and dried? Qld Govt. could pay snorkelers and divers per kg of COTS.

@reefrebels

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COTS can be used as fertiliser. However, the process of removing them from water can be dangerous due to the venomous spines and should only be carried out by trained personnel. A diver once attempted to bring COTS back to the boat without proper equipment- the COTS fell on his hand resulting in multiple surgeries to remove the spines. Followed by a Lawsuit with the dive operator. U can see why this is not encouraged