Per Rupert Murdoch And A Disgraced Academic, Australia's Reefs Are Healthier Than Ever - Really, They're Doing GREAT!!!

The Australian Institute of Marine Science’s annual monitoring study came out on Wednesday. It warned that the Great Barrier Reef could reach a tipping point where it cannot recover fast enough between major catastrophic events.

The Guardian reported it as: Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching event in 2024 most widespread and severe on record

The ABC: Ecosystem under distress

The SMH: Record coral decline, mass bleaching

The Courier-Mail: [link:Reef in crisis: Unprecedented coral decline strikes iconic natural wonder|Reef in crisis: Unprecedented coral decline strikes iconic natural wonder]

And The Australian?

[link:Reef in crisis: Unprecedented coral decline strikes iconic natural wonder|Pretty bloomin’ healthy: Reef defying the doomsayers]

The national broadsheet’s Pollyannish view was illustrated with shots of smiling snorkellers giving the thumbs up. The headline on a comment piece by Peter Ridd, a former James Cook University academic now at the Institute of Public Affairs, said the reef “is still doing fine” – “despite having six allegedly cataclysmic coral bleaching events in the last decade”. Australia should look to the US, Ridd wrote, where “scientists who were once victimised and ostracised have been appointed to lead science and medical research institutions” as scientific “groupthink” is challenged.

Ridd, a geophysicist, was sacked from James Cook University in 2018 because of what the university called “serious misconduct” in his criticism of fellow JCU academics’ reef research but he claimed was simply exercising his intellectual freedom as an academic. The IPA then picked him up to lead a project called the Project for Real Science.

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https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2025/aug/08/pretty-bloomin-what-the-great-barrier-reef-is-a-picture-of-health-the-australian-assures-us