The 'dying reef' narrative is worth a LOT of money so how do we kill it? Topher Project Ep 466

What if the reef is NOT dying? What if the reef is, in fact, doing VERY well thankyou very much for asking?

But what if there are thousands of people who's livelihoods and careers DEPEND on you believing that the reef is desperately ill...

What would they be willing to do? Who would they be willing to destroy? What would they be willing to hide? And what if good, honest people found themselves working in an industry whose funding model is built on lies?

Prof Peter Ridd joins me on the Topher Project to discuss the remarkable GOOD news... coral cover on the reef is doing well, the doom-mongers are obviously wrong, and it's time to focus our energy and money onto real problems, not imaginary ones.



Best comment on You Tube:

@Gumbatron01
On top of cyclones, on longer time scales, the Great Barrier Reef endures extreme changes, over the last million years or so, the sea level has repeatedly risen and fallen around 200' around 10 times. The entire reef as it exists today was a series of hills along the coastline, or possibly a chain of small rocky islands merely 20000 years ago. With the start of the current interglacial period, sea levels rapidly (over the course of around 6k years) rose to near their current levels. In another 6k years, we might well be on the way to sea levels that are typical of the glacial phase of our current ice age. Even then, the reef will not die, it will move elsewhere and be resurrected again in another 80k years when the seas rise again.

Many thanks to Peter for his tireless efforts to get the truth about the Great Barrier Reef out.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, September 2, 2026.]