Great Barrier Reef

I lived for three years, from 2009 to 2012, in a delightful house just up from Lammermoor Beach with a view across to Great Keppel Island. Lammermoor Beach is part of the Mackay/Capricorn Management Area of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Like many of the beaches along north eastern Australia, Lammermoor is aptly described as a ‘low-energy shoreline’. This

“What happened to me has a massive chilling effect on debate,” says physics professor Peter Ridd, who was sacked by James Cook University last week after saying other scientists, including former colleagues, have exaggerated the dangers to the Great Barrier Reef. “Any scientist who might agree with me on the reef will just keep their mouth shut, it’s just too

The following is an excerpt from chapter 2 in Climate Change: The Facts 2017, published by the IPA in 2017. A PDF of the full chapter is available here, and the book can be purchased here. There has been an exponential increase in research on the topic of ocean acidification, which broadly concerns chemical changes in the ocean in response

The following is an excerpt from Peter Ridd’s chapter in Climate Change: The Facts 2017, published by the IPA in 2017. :A PDF of the full chapter is available here, and the book can be purchased here. The Great Barrier Reef is often used to show the imminent crisis we are supposedly facing from climate change. It is photogenic, the