MMmmmm, so what level of protection would "the scientific community" propose on a reef that after 200years of plundering is currently being raped to the tune of 17kg/km2 when the unsustainable level is understood to be around 7000kg/km2? No this reef does actually exist in the doom and gloom, funding only for a predetermined outcome world of today.
Fair dinkum us Aussies are taken as dopes!!
Maths is not my strong point, seems we had better start pro-acting now because in 411.76 times 200 years (82.35 thousand years time!)we might have to start thinking seriously about some form of lock-out protection on this reef (sic) (chuck) (spew). Sunspot induced global warming, natural macro trends in the global heat budget and future comet collisions excluded.
cheers fnq