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Swimming in a sea of disinformation over the Great Barrier Reef
Sunday, March 9, 2014 5:35
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THE ABC was among the first to fall for it, of course. In 2002, it reported the Great Barrier Reef was as good as dead already.
Host Kerry O’Brien groaned that our “once-spectacular” reef was “threatened by global warming” and “up to 10 per cent of the reef has been lost to bleaching since 1998”, turning it “bone white”.
Up popped Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, a Queensland reef researcher with a natty patter, to warn us to “change our lifestyles” or the reef would go — killed by hotter seas.
My god, but journalists are suckers for warming scares.
Source: http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/swimming-in-a-sea-of-disinformation-over-the-great-barrier-reef.html
