Defying radical environmental doomsday predictions

 National Review:

The headlines were dire: “Half of the Great Barrier Reef’s corals have been killed by climate change,” CBS News reported in October 2020.

Bleaching of the reef’s corals is “getting more widespread,” the New York Times reported earlier that year. A Vice headline in 2017 promoting David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II documentary said, “the Great Barrier Reef will die this century,” while National Geographic predicted an earlier demise for reefs around the globe: “Coral reefs could be gone in 30 years.”

It became almost common knowledge that the Great Barrier Reef was assuredly doomed, the victim of a warming climate, rising ocean temperatures, and increasingly acidic water.

Then, in early August, the authoritative Australian Institute of Marine Science released a new report on the 1,400-mile natural wonder. Two-thirds of the reef — its northern and central regions — are showing record levels of coral cover. The southern region is also showing high levels of coral cover. The AIMS report was hardly a portrait of a dying ecosystem.

While the news may have been shocking to those who have been relying on the mainstream media for their information, it was no surprise to Peter Ridd, a marine geophysicist in Australia who has been studying the Great Barrier Reef since the mid 1980s. Ridd, 62, has long been a prominent voice dissenting from the chorus of reef doomsayers and what he describes as “the usual scaremongers” predicting the reef’s impending death.

“It’s just been half a century of doom, doom, doom, doom, doom. And now we’ve got records amount of coral,” Ridd told National Review in a telephone interview from Australia.

Now an adjunct fellow with Australia’s free-market Institute of Public Affairs think tank, Ridd was fired from James Cook University in Queensland in 2018, allegedly for publishing disparaging comments about some other scientists’ research on corals. He believes his heterodox views on the reef and the impact of climate change were also to blame.

“I was fired because I said there was a quality-assurance problem at some reef institutions,” said Ridd, who unsuccessfully fought his dismissal in court. “They’ll say, oh, I didn’t say it in a nice way. You explain to me how you say to another group of scientists your quality assurance is grossly deficient, which means your work is untrustworthy.”
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There is much more. 

I suspect the gloom and doomers are leftists who want to believe that humans are destroying the planet's ecosystem.  I think that is because they want to impose more controls on humans.  They are the ultimate control freaks.