‘Fact Checks’ on Great Barrier Reef Aim to cover up ‘Dodgy’ Past Predictions August 22, 2022 Unipro2013main Geo Politics, World Politics - Geopolitics </p> <h2>“Covering up all the Dodgy Predictions they’ve made in the Past”</h2> <p> Media ‘fact checks’ proclaiming climate change’s impact on the Great Barrier Reef are a form of “covering up all the dodgy predictions they’ve made in the past”, Marine Physicist Dr Peter Ridd says.</p> <p>An Instagram post by Sky News host Rita Panahi was fact checked by the Agence France-Presse fact checker.</p> <p>The posts show two tweets about the Great Barrier Reef superimposed over a photo of climate activist Greta Thunberg.</p> <p>One tweet from 2014 was about scientists’ predictions that climate change will “wreck irreversible damage” to the Reef by 2030 – the other was from 2022 about the rebound in coral growth recorded by the Australian Institute of Marine Science.</p> <p>“I’ve been fact checked probably three or four times by Australian Associated Press – they always come to the same conclusion that the Reef is doomed,” Dr Ridd told Sky News host Rita Panahi.</p> <p>“They’ve been proven to be wrong again and again and again and these fact checks are just a form of covering up all the dodgy predictions they’ve made in the past.”<br /> <br /> Credit to : Sky News Australia</p> <p> Please support our Sponsors here :
