Janice Lough

Janice Lough FAA is a climate scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) at James Cook University, researching climate change, and impacts of temperature and elevated CO2 on coral reefs.

Quotes

• While bleaching surveys are ongoing, a distinct pattern is emerging, whereby the severity of bleaching declines from north to south.
• At the start of southern summer it was predicted that bleaching would be largely restricted to central and southern parts of the GBR.
  • Coral Bleaching Taskforce: more than 1,000 km of the Great Barrier Reef has bleached. April 6, 2016 10.13pm SAST, Morgan Pratchett. The Conversation, Retrieved: 19 November, 2023.
• If we only listened! few of those familiar with the natural heat exchanges of the atmosphere, which go inti the making of our climate and weather, would be prepared to admit that the activities of man could have any influence on phenomena of so vast a scale. In the following paper i hope to show that such an influence is not only possible but us actually occurring at the present time.
• We know that global climate is changing due to human actions, climate has changed in the past but not at the current rate and with present human population and heavily impacted global temperatures.
  • Janice Lough - A Changing Climate for Coral Reefs. 19th October 2007, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Studies. Retrieved: 19 November, 2023