tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post2689715484215381185..comments2024-03-25T05:30:23.847+11:00Comments on HotWhopper: Anthony Watts and Andrew Bolt want "Lights out for the Great Barrier Reef"Souhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-28011277356818845072014-03-12T16:02:15.676+11:002014-03-12T16:02:15.676+11:00Millicent.
You might be interested to know that y...Millicent.<br /><br />You might be interested to know that your sentiment is embodied in the campaign of one of the candidates for the seat of Denison in this weekend's Tasmanian election:<br /><br /><a href="http://fastfreddy.info/policies/" rel="nofollow">http://fastfreddy.info/policies/</a><br /><br />Vote early, vote often...Bernard J.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-68661758779820226662014-03-12T06:30:51.138+11:002014-03-12T06:30:51.138+11:00Not only is the reef an inconvenient indicator of ...Not only is the reef an inconvenient indicator of the damage we are doing to the environment, but it has the effrontery to form an obstacle to coal ships heading to China. So it is no wonder that fossil fuel industry lobbyists posing as fake sceptics are happy to see it die off.Millicentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-8292365913025118132014-03-11T14:45:16.501+11:002014-03-11T14:45:16.501+11:00A common theme emerges when you Google "Austr...A common theme emerges when you Google "Australia's least accurate columnist", "Popovic vs Bolt (2002)", "Bolt vs Popovic (2003)" and "Eatock vs Bolt (2011)". Court judgements sum it up best:<br /><br />“Mr Bolt’s conduct in the circumstances was, at worst, dishonest and misleading and, at best, grossly careless. It reflects upon him as a journalist.”<br /><br />"(Mr Bolt) was intent on arguing a case. He sought to do so persuasively. It would have been highly inconvenient to the case for which Mr Bolt was arguing for him to have set out facts … that would have substantially undermined (Mr Bolt's) assertion … That view is further confirmed by factual errors made … in circumstances where Mr Bolt failed to provide a satisfactory explanation for the error in question."<br /><br />Sound familiar? Different people, different arena, same tactic. With regard to the Great Barrier Reef and Hoegh-Guldberg, Bolt has selectively used non-referenced studies and assertions from "what Annabel Crabb calls the University of East Bumcrack." i.e. he's pulled the sceptic data out of his … Check out the link:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhTwMiI4M1A (Crabb's U of EB at 1 minute 5 second and Bolt's claim that "I've studied it" (Climate Science!!!) shortly after.)<br /><br />Here's an example of Bolt's selective inaccuracy: "Indeed, an AIMS study found the previous 110 years of ocean warming were good for coral growth."<br />Check out what I think is the link to that study, 'Growth of West Australian Corals in the Anthropocene' Cooper et al (2011) <br /><br />https://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6068/593 <br /><br /> And the sentence-and-a-half that Bolt has "interpreted" and condensed into one is: "We show there is no widespread pattern of consistent decline in calcification rates of massive Porites during the 20th century on reefs spanning an 11° latitudinal range in the southeast Indian Ocean off Western Australia. Increasing calcification rates on the high-latitude reefs …"<br /><br />So the coral growth occurs in an 11 degree range over a higher latitude or further south in what would have been formerly cooler areas. What about the more northerly reefs and the rest of the sentence Bolt omitted? It's the following AIMS sentence with the key words, in my view, are "contrast", "downward", "responses to temperature": <br /><br />"Increasing calcification rates on the high-latitude reefs contrast with the downward trajectory reported for corals on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and provide additional evidence that recent changes in coral calcification are responses to temperature rather than ocean acidification."<br /><br />And the "downward" trajectory reported for the Great Barrier Reef reinforces what Ove Hoegh-Guldberg has been saying for ages.George Montgomeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07042191140401441348noreply@blogger.com