Cutting through green spin

Claims about dire risk to Barrier Reef are 'rubbish'

* Talking Point
* From: The <http://www.theaustralian.com.au/> Australian
* May 25, 2011 12:00AM

I WAS raised near Madang on the northern coast of mainland Papua New Guinea
where I dived on some of the world's most prolific and beautiful coral reefs
almost every day of my childhood.

The sea temperatures off northern PNG generally exceed 30 degrees Celsius
year-round and are consistently four to six degrees above those off the
north Queensland coast.

The Climate Commission's claim that the Great Barrier Reef will bleach and
die as a result of a three-degree rise in sea temperature is clearly
rubbish. But this is what we can expect when a queen of spin relies on a
high priest of climate alarmism who relies on a notorious coral-reef
doomsayer for advice.

Rod Burston, Kiama Downs, NSW

and

If global warming is going to wipe out the Barrier Reef, it will have to get
on the end of a long queue. Scientists have previously declared the reef was
going to be wiped out by the crown-of-thorns starfish and subsequently by
nutrient runoff from farming and even by tourism itself. Australia is in
desperate need of more tourist icons to be used as emotional blackmail by
the greenies.

The experts have already told us Kakadu is going to be ruined by uranium
mining and Uluru is under threat from tourists climbing on it. Thank God
Rottnest Island is too far west of Canberra to have been discovered by Julia
Gillard's scientists.

Rod Bates, Ardross, WA