Andrew Bolt asks in his column – Why won’t other journalists tackle Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, too?
Maybe such dud predictions should be called “claimet change” for all the failed claims? – Anthony
by Andrew Bolt
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.
It’s like they actually want to be fooled — or to fool you.
Hoegh-Guldberg is now arguably the world’s most influential reef scientist in global-warming circles, having got big government grants, chaired a $20 million World Bank study of warming, and worked as an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author.
Last week, he bobbed up again, waving a report he’d just done for the WWF green group to help promote this month’s Earth Hour.
Again journalists lapped it up, not bothering to check how all Hoegh-Guldberg’s other warnings had panned out. (Answer: terrible, as you’ll see.)
Is this the same reef that survived the heat of the “Holocene Optimum,” about 8000 years ago, which was much hotter than it is today?
Below are various other reasons for coral destruction / bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef. Warm water caused by man’s greenhouse gases is a small time player.
Good old water pollution also plays a role
I hear hurricanes are gonna blast them there corals to pieces. It’s worse than we thought.
Shouldn’t we ask the IPCC to reduce tropical cyclones and the Star of Thorns?
Enough of this garbage, I’m moving onto another thread till maybe later.
“He (Hoegh-Guldberg), does not seem to learn from his mistakes.”
Why would he learn from his mistakes when there are no consequences for being wrong? In fact, the more mistaken he is, the more rewards and fame he receives. If you reward failure, you will get more of it. if you punish good science, you will get less of it. The sad thing is that after 17 years of no warming and failed predictions, many governments want to double down on rewarding failed science.
If warming resumes anytime soon, even if it’s just natural variation, we will have to fight this battle for decades to come. These people have made it their life’s mission to save the world, and I don’t meant the people in the world. I mean they wish to save the world FROM mankind. They will jump at any excuse to do so. They don’t care if the reason is fake, only that it is useful, and that people in power can be made to believe it.
Love the ”Claimet Change” term. Whatever happens, Claimit.
Flew over the reef about 10 years ago with a pilot out of Cairns who had been flying over the reef daily for decades. He was also a keen swimmer on the reef. He said then the claims of the reef dying were b.s.
There’s no lack of comedic material for Bolty to work with and add another to the list-http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/desperate_warmists_now_try_the_smallpox_scare/
Beware the creatures from the ooze folks.