{"id":197903,"date":"2019-11-15T08:44:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T08:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197903"},"modified":"2019-11-17T09:52:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T09:52:41","slug":"australias-coral-reefs-are-not-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197903","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Coral Reefs Are Not Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Institute of Public Affairs \u2013 Nov 13, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Beige Reef &#8211; Presented By Dr Jennifer Marohasy<\/h2>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HqFFqBuFVqU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A key claim in a\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/srep19285\">January 2016 article<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0in the scientific journal,\u00a0Nature, is\u00a0that there are no longer any living colonies of Acropora \u2013 a particular type of\u00a0coral \u2013 at Stone Island off Bowen Harbour in the Whitsundays, and that other\u00a0corals are now covered in mud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dr Peter Ridd\u2019s\u00a0path to dismissal by\u00a0James Cook University began with an email questioning claims that the corals at\u00a0Stone<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dr Marohasy and her team went to find out the true state of the coral reefs\u00a0around Stone Island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">What they found contradicts the Nature paper and proves this key reef system is\u00a0very much alive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Read the IPA\u2019s media release\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/ipa.org.au\/publications-ipa\/ipa-media-release-ipa-launches-beige-reef-a-new-short-film-by-dr-jennifer-marohasy-on-the-great-barrier-reef\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Click<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/ipa.org.au\/research-areas\/climate-change\">here<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>to read\u00a0Dr Jennifer Marohasy\u2019s articles on climate change and Great Barrier Reef science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Throughout history, individuals have been crushed by the\u00a0masses, particularly when their evidence does not concur with\u00a0the overall agenda. Rational argument is not possible when\u00a0people think in terms of slogans, especially when some of those\u00a0in authority have no real firsthand experience of nature<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dr\u00a0Jennifer Marohasy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ipa.org.au\/peterridd\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite claims that climate change is killing Australia\u2019s Great Barrier Reef, scientists find that it is very much alive and well<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[72,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ClimateGate","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197905,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197903\/revisions\/197905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}