Falling Sea Level: The Critical Factor in 2016 Great Barrier Reef Bleaching!

Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism It is puzzling…

Great Barrier Reef bleaching study; Karoly et al (April 2016), Part A.

Guest essay by Bob Fernley-Jones Background: This headline image is for a publically released article (the article) in the Australian university-partnered blog The Conversation in which ‘the study’ cited therein…

Sorry, WaPo, There Is No Evidence Bleaching Threatens a Great Barrier Reef “Tipping Point”

From ClimateREALISM By H. Sterling Burnett -March 29, 2022 The Washington Post (WaPo) published an article today discussing the fact that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) recently suffered its “sixth massive bleaching event,” blaming…

Great Barrier Reef Warming, Coral Bleaching Driven By Cloud Radiative Forcing, Not Humans

From the NoTricksZone By Kenneth Richard on 2. December 2021 For decades Great Barrier Reef (GBR) warming and coral bleaching have often been assumed to be driven by human greenhouse gas emissions and/or…

The “Great Barrier Reef Is Dying” Scam

It was only a year ago that Australia’s leading reef expert, Dr Peter Ridd, reported that coral cover was at record highs:

Coral Reefs are Dying Because of Climate Change

Pro: Coral Reefs are Dying From The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Climate change is the greatest global threat to coral reef ecosystems.  Scientific evidence now clearly indicates that the…

Invitation to Visit Mass Coral Bleaching, and see the Fishes

Too many Australians, whether young or old, voting Labor, Greens, Liberal or Teal, are mostly abrogating their capacity for reason in favour of being fashionable.

Happy Easter, Happy End of the 2023 Cyclone Season at the Great Barrier Reef

The available data shows that there has been a steady decline in both the number and intensity of cyclones since the 1970s.

Professor Peter Ridd – The World’s Coral Reefs are not Declining

Professor Ridd reviews the latest data on the state of the world’s coral reefs, which is extremely encouraging, especially for the Great Barrier Reef, the largest single reef system, with…

Get it Right, Washington Post, Climate Change Isn’t Causing a Decline in Coral Reefs

Because climate change isn’t harming coral reefs, trying to protect coral health by fighting global warming is a misplaced effort.

Peter Ridd on Great Barrier Reef Recovery: Technical Details of Coral Cover Statistics, and Background

We must then remember that this is almost certainly natural, and not allow the merchants of doom to depress the children.

Sorry, CNN, Great Barrier Reef Is Setting Records, Fearmongering Won’t Work

The evidence suggests, contrary to CNN’s fearmongering, climate change does not threaten to decimate the GBR or other coral reefs around the world. That’s something people around the globe can be…

Surprise – the Australian Great Barrier Reef has “Bounced Back” from Climate Change

I know all of you will be surprised that an organism which survived the dinosaur killer has has shown an unexpected ability to cope with a degree of global warming…

Film Premiere “A Coral Bleaching Tragedy” in Brisbane This Sunday

If you are in Brisbane this Sunday at 2pm Peter Ridd & Jennifer Marohasy will attend a premiere viewing of their new film “A Coral Bleaching Tragedy”.

Rebels to the Coral Reef Cause (Part 1)

Everybody claims to care about the Great Barrier Reef, but very few people take the time to actually visit it. 

Leonard Lim’s Exquisite Photography of John Brewer Reef

Anyone serious about accurately reporting coral cover at John Brewer reef would swim around the perimeter and also over the top where most of the coral is – this is…

Epicentre of Mass Coral Bleaching – Still So Beautiful (Part 1)

On 10th April 2022 I went to the very epicentre of the claimed latest severe mass coral bleaching, and found a coral wonderland.

Fake Warming Along the Great Barrier Reef

By using visions of dying reefs to thieve ever more money from Australian taxpayers, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies has built an elaborate castle-in-the-air.

Not Expecting Coral Bleaching During a La Niña

When you get down to Earth and under-the-water, well Pixie Reef was magnificently healthy.  I am going to visit it again, soon, to check how it is this year.

A Tale of Two Media Perspectives: New Pristine Reef Discovery a Marvel for Most, A Chance to Promote Unwarranted Climate Alarmism for CNN

Along the way CNN presented half-truths, misleading information, and gross speculation about the threat climate change poses to coral reefs worldwide, in an attempt to say this newly discovered pristine…

Analysis: Obura et al Coral Bleaching Study: Models Used Misrepresent Warming Rate….”30% Too High”!

The headline of the agency report once again conveys threatening scenarios about the imminent death of “all coral reefs”, which cannot be justified or supported.

Great Barrier Reef experiencing ‘record high’ levels of coral coverage

Sky News AustraliaFormer JCU Marine Physicist Peter Ridd says the Great Barrier Reef is now experiencing “record high coral cover”. “This is data that’s been accumulated over a little while…

Claim: Coral reef cover, biodiversity, fish catches have declined by half since the 1950s

. “The effects of degraded and declining coral reefs are already evident through impacts on subsistence and commercial fisheries and tourism in Indonesia, the Caribbean, and South Pacific, even when…

Record Coral Cover Of Great Barrier Reef Shames Climate Alarmists, Media

When will these doom stories about the reef, which have been going for 50 years, cease? Will it be like the Ancient Greek legend of Prometheus, who was chained alive to…