24/01/2025
A new paper has come out about the GBR - and it is a catastrophe. What a surprise!
Perhaps these reef ‘scientists’ don’t know that the world has changed in the last year - and especially in the last day or so in America. Most people have given up believing ‘scientists’ who are acting like doom merchants. We don’t trust them anymore. This study is a classic example. The paper is quick to point out that One Tree Island Reef has lost a lot of coral in the last year – but they did not show this graph of the coral cover for the region around One Tree, or mention the fact that the region was at record high coral cover, and has now fallen to average levels.
So, falling to average is now a catastrophe. Did they forget to mention this, or is their behaviour worse?
And when these reefs had record equalling high amounts of coral in 2022-24 – did these ‘scientists’ say it was a good thing. No. Record high was still bad!
The fact is that GBR reefs are highly variable – boom and bust – they always have been. It is not real science to focus on the downswings and make out it is a disaster. My lawn dies off every dry season - and it is not a disaster either, unless it stops bouncing back. And the GBR shows it always comes good in its millenia of bust (and boom).
Too many ‘scientists’, in my opinion, are either political ideologues or completely captured by groupthink.
Should these ‘scientists’ be prosecuted? Can we prosecute them for wasting public money? We pay them to do science – and they omit crucial information.
In the US, ex-President Biden just preemptively pardoned Anthony Fauci, chief scientist in charge of the US COVID response and also likely partly responsible for funding the Wuhan Virology lab which almost certainly accidentally released the virus.
One has got to wonder when the day will come when some of these ‘scientists’ end up before a court. It would certainly improve their accountability.
The least we can do is stop funding this rubbish, and make sure there is better quality assurance of the work produced by the institutions.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/22/catastrophic-great-barrier-reef-hit-by-its-most-widespread-coral-bleaching-study-finds
The publication is here.
https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lol2.10456