It’s a miracle. It’s only six months since they were elected but the Labor says Great Barrier Reef is OK now.
However UNESCO is still threatening to list it as “in danger”, despite record coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef for the last two years running. The “danger” label would scare off some tourists, so the Minister is lobbying the UN to stop it.
But follow the reasoning. The Minister is admitting that the UN listing is not about the reef itself, it’s about whether they have paid enough money for UN causes or adopted the right “NetZero” liturgy.
Barrier Reef in danger? The fight’s on again
Lydia Lynch and Jess Malcolm, The Australian
Ms Plibersek [Environment Minister] and her Queensland counterpart, Meaghan Scanlon, sought to distance themselves from the report’s findings, arguing they were the result of the former Coalition government’s failure to act on climate change.
“The reason that UNESCO in the past has singled out a place as ‘at risk’ is because they wanted to see greater government investment or greater government action – and since the change of government, both of those things have happened,” she said.
Apparently the UN uses the “in danger” listing a form of coercion to squeeze more money for their favourite causes. It’s nothing about the actual reef. Nothing about what Australians want. And it was never about “The Science”:
Steve Edmondson, a reef tour operator in Port Douglas, said the UN-backed report relied on old information gathered during a monitoring mission in March while the reef was going through a mass coral bleaching event.
- We’ll spend $120 b because a foreign unaccountable committee says so, but we won’t spend 0.1% of that checking their science
- Well that explains everything: Bankers bullied Australia into Net Zero
- Is that all? UN wants 4, 6 or $10 trillion a year and a “transformation of the world’s financial system”
- What climate disaster? The Great Barrier Reef has more coral growing on it than ever recorded
- Climate Change causes record coral cover — What if we get too many reefs?
Isn’t it great that LABOR has saved the Reef … without lifting a finger.
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Time to exit the UN.!
Allowing China to maintain a “developing nation” status, when it is vying with the US as an economic power, with a Space Program, a Nuclear Program, going through a major build up of its military to rival the s needs to stop and China needs to be included in the UN Climate Fold.
Australia needs to exit until this major shift happens.
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Reminds me of Barry Obama being given a Nobel Prize for being, well, Obama and not some white president who did not take the climate rubbish seriously. It is almost messianic as the oceans stopped rising when Obama became president and the world began to heal and likewise with Albanese and the ALP/Green alliance taking credit for the recovery of the reef although they were in opposition when the healing began. It really is a religion and just as dangerous when it is based on error compounded by lies. The communists are well and truly in control and the useful idiots in government have not the sense to see it unless of course they are on the same team which seems more likely.
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The timing of Obama’s fake “peace prize” was such that he would have to have been nominated less than 11 days into his Presidency.
Some appalling individuals have won the Nobel Peace Prize apart from Obama such as Arafat and ElBaradei.
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What I remember about Obama and the GBR, was the speech he gave when he visited Australia during Tony Abbotts time as PM. Clearly done for political reasons because that side of politics didn’t like TA. During that speech he chided us like errant schoolboys because our efforts to preserve the reef were insufficient, in his opinion. It was all political theatre, all nonsense. Same as his 97 % scientists claim. All misinformation, which apparently now he is fighting against. How ironic.
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I remember the tilt-rotor helicopters and other essential means of transport he brought along for that event, and his claim that he wanted his daughters to see the reef before it was gone!
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I think I am correct in pointing out that Prof Ian Plimer made note in one of his recent books that the reef has ” died ” about 60 times so far over a long period of time. What is confounding the lunatic UN and our own Labor dills, is that it won’t stay dead.
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I wonder how much the supposed “danger” to the reef was reduced by former Labor Party plant in the Liberal Party PM Turnbull giving the Great Barrier Reef Foundation $444 million of taxpayer money without them even asking for it or knowing what to do with it. At the time they had only six full time staff…
It was so bizarre that the first they heard of this “donation” of our hard-earned taxes was on the news.
And what has become of our tax dollars today? And who profited?
As usual when dealing with our hard-earned taxes and the Left spending them, follow the money trail.
I would like to know, for example, if any money has been spent on private jet flights and helicopter flights and stays on tropical paradise islands or luxury yachts to “inspect” the reef? Among many other questions about our tax “donation”.
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Turnbull, what a clown. How did he ever get to be leader of the LNP and PM? After the Vic State election he commented that the reason the LNP lost was because they had lurched to the far right. ( or words to that effect ). If only Tony Abbott hadn’t given Prince Phillip that honorary knighthood – sigh.
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On Tuesday morning the ABC was reporting breathlessly of the reef’s latest demise. They interviewed experts form a couple of agencies, but didn’t bother interviewing that Professor Peter Ridd (obviously a heretic in their view), or the reports from decades of reef dives performed by Ben and Valerie Cropp.
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So within that 2,300 km footprint are Abbot Point and Hay Point coal export terminals, and these two fly-specks on the reef montage are putting in in great danger and must be shut down. What a crock of you-know-what!
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Both are abt. 70 kms from the reef and there are well marked channels for access to both and compulsory pilotage through these channels.
And a holed coal ship would have its load sink to the bottom, relatively harmlessly*, unlike oil tankers.
* After a year it would be colonised.
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This is what their so called stupid EXISTENTIAL threat is really about and yet hardly anyone in the MSM calls then to account.
After WASTING BILLIUONs of $ on this fraud and corruption over the last 30 years the poor Aussie taxpayer is apparently expected to keep this up forever?
So who runs Australia and the govt, is it Aussies or the left wing con merchants and liars via the UN?
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‘or the Chinese Communist Party that sells us the windmills and solar panels’
Note they sell them, WE BUY THEM . .
So are you going to label everyone in Australia as a Chinese Communist Party supporter because they buy Chinese. Just look at the range of goods that Australians buy from China, everything from the simplest item of clothing to high tech electronics. It’s the height of hypocracy to trade with a country whilst blaming them for every ill that befalls us.
Still, never miss a good chance at China bashing.
Oops I get it, it’s the Communist Party isn’t it? Communism that dirty word.
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Indeed it is.
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Communism: Has anything man-made killed more humans in the last century?
There are many ways the CCP could help the West to hobble itself. Chinese agents pose as fake Green protesters to try to stop Rare Earths mining in the West.
Biden family gained $31m in deals with high level CCP operatives.
Ponder that China uses TikTok to influence Western youth, but different algorithms to influence their own.
Apple did a secret $275 Billion deal with China in 2016. How much did Apple sell out its Western customers in order to get access to the billion person market in China?
There’s a Shadow War in Space “every day”: Russia, China use lasers, jammers, and do reckless stunts.
The CCP bought Western media to some extent to cover up their slave program and the organ harvesting. The New York Times sold out the US to China for a mere $100,000 a month.
There are plenty of Chinese insiders warning us that Covid was a military bioweapon, and that we are in a biological war, and that they have 1,600 other new viruses to work with. Perhaps some of this is fake inflated claims for the domestic audience, but what if it isn’t?
Top Chinese Secret Service man defected — says Covid was military bioweapon. It’s happened before. Bad citizen China hid and spread four pandemics.
Dr. Li-Meng Yan claims The virus is man-made and spread to make damage.
Chinese Prof says US was defeated in 2020 “in a Biological War”.
In 2015 Chinese Military Scientists said Third World War would be fought with biological weapons.
Chinese military involved in Wuhan viral research project, finding 1,640 new viruses.
China has as many as two million potential communist spies — CCP members — in the West. Does that matter? Are banks, companies and university researchers sending back more than just birthday presents to China?
Who’s heart doesn’t break to see the suffering of the Chinese people at the hands of the ruthless CCP.
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OK, one more bite at the cherry, after all it is your site Jo and I do respect that.
Well death’s in the last century who done most; sure everyone will jump up and shout Stalin of course. And it’s true his death lists in the 1930’s were horrendous as he signed off on hundreds or thousands daily to cement his power. Later he ruthlessly wiped out whole villages and farming communities in Ukraine and elsewhere I believe killing millions in the process. (But despite all that he did succeed in making Russia into a powerful nation). And so Stalin was evil and killed millions, and communism is evil too I don’t know?
What else killed people? Well, wars of course WWI and WWII after mankind had perfected the art of mass killing weapons and 100’s of millions died. And who do we blame Hiler of course? And what about the supreme act of rationalism with the atomic boming of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
And hunger of course both natural and man made.And USA foreign policy in Africa, Middle East and Asia has killed millions upon millions and the western nations turn a blind eye. How can you forget? There are more things than communism to blame.
And as for China hobbling the West, well as I have said before, the West is doing OK on that score without any help from China.
PS no hard feelings I love this site . .
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Misspelling of Hitler by me . .
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And no hard feelings meant. I’ll develop that comment into a post sometime.
But seriously, If we add up the USSR and Mao’s and other efforts etc we get near 100 million deaths due to communism.
And as far as China goes, I did not say or even imply that buyers of Chinese goods were supporters of China. My point was that it was in China’s trade interests to try to cripple our energy system — ie coerce us through the UN into “climate action” also known as DIY sabotage. For one, it sells more of their product. It also weakens us in every way if we have expensive energy, lose our industrial base and manufacturing. We become dependent on them for our supply lines too…
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I must have slept in that day.
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Hi Geoffrey,
Some 200 years ago, the success of the UK economy was based, to a considerable extent, on slavery. For example, those who were able to afford sugar barely gave a thought to its method of production. And so it is with those in the West today. We barely give a thought to the reasons as to why these imported goods are so reasonably priced. It might be useful to reread William Wilberforce’s speech to the British Parliament all those years ago, calling for the abolition of slavery.
Paul Miskelly
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The industrial revolution made slavery uneconomic, the Americans enjoyed a civil war to settle the matter.
Slavery had been around for thousands of years, it was the energy of its time.
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Sorry to disagree. I don’t wish to give a lecture on history I’m sure there are many of you who know more history than myself. Having said that, for 200 years or more Britain’s pathway to economic success was Imperialism, capitalism and of course the industrial revolution that swept through Europe.
Indeed right up to the present time Great Britain relies heavily upon it’s past economic connections as it also gains from those historical infrastructure links to this day. Nations do what they have to do to succeed and flourish. Can Britain be proud of it’s past? Maybe, but I will let you decide for yourself.
And so it is with China. In the year 1911 China, a poor nation of many millions of people gained independence from its last imperial dynasty. And do not forget before that there was Western Imperialism and the opium wars etc and defeat at the hands of the then superior British Navy. And much much more. Today the 2nd richest nation on earth.
So if I was Chinese, would I be proud of what has been achieved in little over 100 years?
You bet. And I think most of China would agree and not want to go back to the bad old days of ‘dirty Imperialism’ and western capitalism.
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‘or the Chinese Communist Party’
They are a nasty piece of work, but I accept your basic argument, its not their fault that the West is suffering from millenarian madness.
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Ooooh my precious…ask the 100million about “that dirty word”…
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We are the fools who’ve made ourselves basics illiterate. This is China’s fault??
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I wonder how many of those who claim the Reef is in danger have ever visited it?
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How many Leftoids know that “bleached” coral is not dead and that bleaching is a completely natural process?
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Got a reference to convince me bleached coral isn’t dead? The white is the calcium skeleton. The colour is the living organism.
If you were to say that the skeleton can be repopulated easily I would not argue, I don’t know.
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I question the claim that the GBR is the:
It consists of multiple species.
It is no more a single living organism than a forest is. It is a pathetic attempt to impose collectivist views on nature.
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They are talking about the UN here David not the reef
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“They are talking about the UN…. “
Yep, I suppose a virus/parasite is an organism. !
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Well… most forests. The Pando colony of quaking aspen in Utah seems to be a monoclonal forest with an interconnected root system, covering 108 acres. Not a forest, but still a single organism, an Armillaria ostoyae fungus in Oregon spreads across 2,384 acres, eclipsing the Pando colony in area if not in mass.
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The UN aren’t interested in the provable scientific fact that the GBR is thriving. They are only interested in control by bullying and extortion. The only way to thwart their evil plans is to educate as many critical thinking people as possible as to the fact that our GBR is full of healthy goodness and for the UN to keep its greedy mitts off our beautiful heritage.
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https://ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/47
People may find this one interesting, but any idea that vaxxed blood is “ok” is highly questionable.
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Thanks p o b,
Fascinating paper. Do you have access to the full paper?
94% is a big number.
Cheers
Dave B
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Amazing that Plibersek and co even admit it, and it gets printed in the MSM (the Aus is no more an alternative mouthpiece than the other end of my anatomy is to my mouth). And I bet Labor aided and abetted the said UN talking points while in opposition.
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How do they keep getting away with it .
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Two reasons; the first is that the left have mastered the lie and are not embarrassed to keep telling lies and second; the MSM which in times gone by used to hold governments to account now openly support the lie. There is a third reason, many people are just dumb, uneducated, too lazy to do research or simply do not care. They will when they can’t afford electricity or fuel and find it hard to get food.
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Certainly makes you wonder Green,as .
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How do they keep getting away with it .
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Coral bleaching is not caused by global warming/climate change. The air in contact with the water is long wave radiation that does not penetrate water. The ocean is warmed by direct sunlight, short wave radiation, down to 100 metres. Bleaching mainly occurs during El Nino phases when there is very little cloud. Less so in La Nina when they get the occasional cloud gap. This can be tested; get a container of water, put a thermometer in it and try heating the water with a hair dryer.
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