Great Barrier Reef fearmongering creates profits for dishonest scientists - Senate 21.3.24 (Gerard Rennick)

The Great Barrier Reef is not dying. The only thing that is dying is integrity in our scientific institutions.

Back in 2019, at my first ever Senate Inquiry I asked the Australian Institute for Marine Science if they had kept a centralised database of health KPIs based on regular measurements across the length of Reef that demonstrated a trend that demonstrated that the reef was dying.

Of course the answer of was no.

It beggars belief that billions have been spent on “saving” the reef yet the government and the rent seeking scientists who profit from the reef haven’t actually got any evidence to prove their claims.

But that’s not all. Numerous studies claiming the reef is dying have been debunked.

In another Senate inquiry, one scientist claimed there was coal dust all over the reef when in fact the study was flawed.

Was this scientist locked up for misleading the Senate. Of course not.



Senator Rennick rightly points out that science funding these days is driven by climate fearmongering rather than the pursuit of facts. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, May 14, 2024.]