State Of The Great Barrier Reef 2024
By Paul Homewood
The Australian Environment foundation (AEF), which is a farmer friendly conservation group, has issued a new report entitled “State of the Great Barrier Reef 2024.”
Peter Ridd, the Chairman of the AEF, said the report shows that the reef is in excellent condition with record amounts of coral. “Despite all the catastrophism about hot water bleaching events in the last decade, the species most susceptible to bleaching, (the plate and staghorn corals), have exploded in number. Sadly, the impact of bleaching is routinely exaggerated by the media and some science organisations.”
“The impact of farm pollution in the Reef is negligible and all 3000 individual reefs have excellent coral. No other Australian ecosystem has shown such little change in modern times” Ridd said.
Peter Ridd added, “Australia spends roughly $500 million each year to “save the reef” but this money could be much better spent on genuine environmental problems such as control of invasive weeds and feral animals, or restoring indigenous fire practices into forests and rangeland”.
He concluded, “The public is being deceived about the reef. How this occurred is a serious issue for the reef-science community which has embraced emotion, ideology, and raw self-interest to maintain funding”.
“This new report distils a great deal of data about the reef” said Ridd “it is time that the reef
science institutions confront this data rather than ignoring it and hoping nobody will notice. I challenge them to a public science duel – any time any place.”
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest reef system in the world, and scientists have been warning of its imminent demise since the 1960s.
The report is here.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
It can’t be good for tourism if official Aussie organisations are lying and telling the public that the GBR is bleached and dying.
How is the barrier reef bleached beyond repair in last weeks report and is doing well in this one. Someone is fibbing and I know it is not Peter Ridd.
Polar bears suffer from similar conflicting reports….
Photoshop???
Perhaps it is the Polar Bears migrating because they are sick and tired of all the greentards using them …. after all they are white
Just been having a brew and half watching Pointless.
A contender has just said the are doing a PhD on the Galapagos Iguana. She followed that by saying she’d never been there.
How is it possible to get a PhD on the Galapagos Iguana having been to where they live.
At the University of Michael the Rodent??
She obviously wants a grant so she can go to the Galapagos Islands, preferably during a cold winter in the UK.
Because you get your “data” the same way the people “studying” Polar Bears and the “Great Barrier Reef” get their data….. make it up… truth is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
Haven’t seen this good news story on Great Barrier Reef reported on the BBC? Am I missing something?
“There are none so deaf as those who will not listen.”
I refer, of course, to the intellectually “damaged” Universities.