Post by NFA on Apr 8, 2024 9:31:25 GMT 8
Re: Reef bleaching not all bleak, Bleaching on the reef, 08/04
The Editor
The Cairns Post
“Aerial surveys” have been empirically proven to be completely unfit for purpose in assessing Reef health by an expert from the realists’ side of Reef science, Dr Jennifer Marohasy, (Reef bleaching not all bleak, 08/04).
The only valid reason for aerial surveys is to serve as a source of alarming press releases to trick gullible low-info politicians into squandering more taxpayers’ money on a non-issue to benefit a vanishingly small minority of deluded and dishonest academics.
Bleaching is corals’ evolutionary superpower but the deluded and dishonest academics will never admit that fact because that would end their excuse to grift off taxpayers.
It’s time for the media, particularly the Cairns Post, to make the effort to understand that grifting exists wherever “government” money flows and that unquestioningly publicising baseless for-profit alarmism damages the tourism industry that underpins the Cairns economy.
While your editorial writer seems to be inching in the correct direction, (Bleaching on the reef, 08/04), it’s several orders of magnitude too slow.
The Cairns Post’s stories that went viral around the world a few years ago claiming “the Reef was dead” nearly killed Reef tourism and they were completely wrong because just a couple of years later we had record coral cover.
The media needs to grow up and take responsibility for the consequences of its actions, it needs to apologise for its many errors, and it needs to balance alarmism with reality – which may mean publishing the views of experts who aren’t grifting off taxpayers.
A growing segment of media consumers know that our local outlets are controlled by their corporate masters who have a political agenda that doesn’t match reality, doesn’t benefit us, and that most of us don’t like and don’t want.
Just as the Cairns Post makes regular attempts to murder Reef tourism, it’s making regular attempts at committing suicide by trampling the vestiges of its past credibility.
The Cairns Post needs to wake up to itself before it’s too late.
(327 words)
Peter Campion
One Nation’s candidate for Cook
Tolga
The Cairns Post
“Aerial surveys” have been empirically proven to be completely unfit for purpose in assessing Reef health by an expert from the realists’ side of Reef science, Dr Jennifer Marohasy, (Reef bleaching not all bleak, 08/04).
The only valid reason for aerial surveys is to serve as a source of alarming press releases to trick gullible low-info politicians into squandering more taxpayers’ money on a non-issue to benefit a vanishingly small minority of deluded and dishonest academics.
Bleaching is corals’ evolutionary superpower but the deluded and dishonest academics will never admit that fact because that would end their excuse to grift off taxpayers.
It’s time for the media, particularly the Cairns Post, to make the effort to understand that grifting exists wherever “government” money flows and that unquestioningly publicising baseless for-profit alarmism damages the tourism industry that underpins the Cairns economy.
While your editorial writer seems to be inching in the correct direction, (Bleaching on the reef, 08/04), it’s several orders of magnitude too slow.
The Cairns Post’s stories that went viral around the world a few years ago claiming “the Reef was dead” nearly killed Reef tourism and they were completely wrong because just a couple of years later we had record coral cover.
The media needs to grow up and take responsibility for the consequences of its actions, it needs to apologise for its many errors, and it needs to balance alarmism with reality – which may mean publishing the views of experts who aren’t grifting off taxpayers.
A growing segment of media consumers know that our local outlets are controlled by their corporate masters who have a political agenda that doesn’t match reality, doesn’t benefit us, and that most of us don’t like and don’t want.
Just as the Cairns Post makes regular attempts to murder Reef tourism, it’s making regular attempts at committing suicide by trampling the vestiges of its past credibility.
The Cairns Post needs to wake up to itself before it’s too late.
(327 words)
Peter Campion
One Nation’s candidate for Cook
Tolga