One thing that’s guaranteed to send a Climate Cultist into a screaming meltdown is to ask for actual evidence of this ‘emergency’ they’re constantly gibbering about. Not ‘predictions’ of 100 years hence by computer models that can’t even accurately represent the real world, today. Actual evidence of demonstrable catastrophic harm, right now.
Climate refugees? Not happening: the people in boats country-shopping are economic chancers. Drowning islands? Also not happening: the vast majority islands are either stable or growing. Desertification? Not happening on stilts: in fact, the exact opposite is undeniably true. The Earth is greening at an astonishing rate.
But the Great Barrier Reef! Oh, Cultists, you do not want to go there. In fact, they literally don’t want to go there.
The Australian Institute of Marine Science officially has confirmed what we’ve known for a few weeks: this will be another bumper year for Great Barrier Reef coral cover.
AIMS states that two of the three major Great Barrier Reef regions have set new records for coral cover, and the cover in the third has equalled the existing record. When you add up the regional results to get the coral cover for the entire reef – something AIMS inexplicably stopped doing in 2016 – the Great Barrier Reef has more coral in each of the past three years than in any of the preceding 35 years.
It must be conceded that ‘on record’ is a relatively short time. But that’s just as true of ‘records’ of temperatures, say, or ice cover. But the Cult only ever want to play that game one way.
Even more remarkable, the types of coral that are flourishing are the very ones most susceptible to the supposedly ‘catastrophic’, ‘unrecoverable’ bleaching events of the past decade.
Don’t expect Cultists to start uttering heresy any time soon.
But of course AIMS is still arguing these records do not mean the reef is healthy […]
The record coral coverage on the Great Barrier Reef across the past three years is not mentioned in the latest Scientific Consensus Statement, just released by CSIRO. Instead it focuses on claims the reef is badly affected by farmers and that climate change is a great threat […]
Neither was the record coral coverage mentioned by federal Environment and Water Minister Tanya Plibersek in her response to UNESCO when it threatened to list the Great Barrier Reef as endangered. But she sold out the barramundi fishermen in the Gulf of Carpentaria when she agreed to stop gillnet fishing in the gulf to “save the reef”.
That’s a good one. We must protect all the record coral cover on the other side of Cape York by importing even more than the 65 per cent of seafood we already obtain from overseas.
Of course, no government ‘science’ report these days is complete without a heapin’ dose of oogabooga mysticism.
The summary of the statement (alone about 100 pages) acknowledges traditional owners, vilifies farmers and claims that freshwater ecosystems miraculously have become an integral part of the Great Barrier Reef. But somehow it could not find room to mention the reef has record coverage of coral.
If the Cultists on the government payroll are bad enough, their camp followers in the MSM are even worse. These doom-obsessed loons utterly refuse to poke their heads out from their sackcloths and see that the sky really isn’t falling after all.
The Australian Environment Foundation, where I am chairman, undertook an experiment with a half-dozen journalists and a well-known blogger, including from The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, the ABC and The Saturday Paper. All had published articles bemoaning the terrible state of the Great Barrier Reef. We offered them a trip to the GBR to see it for themselves – all expenses paid.
I would accompany them to explain the great health of the reef, but they also could bring any scientist they wanted from any of the reef science institutions. We suggested those scientists could counter my argument that the reef was fabulous. We even would let the journalists decide which one of the many reefs in the Cairns region to visit. We suggested it would be good to see at least one reef that allegedly had been badly bleached in the latest “catastrophic” bleaching event.
You would think a free trip to the Great Barrier Reef – and an opportunity to document a notorious climate denier being torn to shreds in argument by climate angels – would be too much for them to pass up.
Good Oil readers will no doubt be astonished to learn that not one MSM journo, nor any of their pet Cult scientists, took up the offer.
It’s almost as if they know they’re demented liars.
