Simon Donner

Associate Professor, The University of British Columbia

Expertise: Climate change and coral reefs, Ocean warming and El Nino

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ARTICLES REVIEWED

Futurism story on Great Barrier Reef compromised by sensational headline

in Futurism, by June Javelosa and Jolene Creighton

— 16 Jan 2018

"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.

Analysis of « Large Sections of Australia’s Great Reef Are Now Dead, Scientists Find »

in The New York Times, by Justin Gillis & Damien Cave

— 18 Mar 2017

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. Th...