Reef even more dead than usual

It comes from the Climate Council — that would be Tim Flannery’s mob, in case you need to be told — and the news  is no less dire than usual: only a third of the Great Barrier Reef is relatively healthy, the rest marching toward its doom, presumably because electricity has not yet been made sufficiently expensive to cool Gaia’s hot flushes. It’s all global warming’s fault, of course, and it is going to cost the Queensland economy a billion dollars in lost tourism dollars.

And the dams will never fill again, either.

Actually, there may be more substance to this latest florid claim. Neither Flannery nor any other of the Climate Council’s professional alarmists can actually drive away dark clouds. But tourists are another matter. Fill the world’s news feeds with tales of mortally wounded polyps and there is a good chance international visitors will indeed go elsewhere.

But is is it true, this latest tale of mass bleaching and imminent demise? The case of James Cook University’s Peter Ridd may be instructive.

Last year the marine scientist thought there was something peculiar about reports that the coral off Stone Island, near Bowen, was on its last legs, so he checked and confirmed his suspicions that the alarmist reporting was way out of line with reality.

His reward was to be disciplined for “failing to act in a collegial way and in the academic spirit of the institution.”

Follow the link below to be reminded of the treatment that awaits those who do not toe the alarmist line.

As for the tourism outfits, one wonders if there might be a legal case to be brought against whose who seem so determined to ruin their businesses.

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