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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...