Former, honest JCU researcher Peter Ridd who blew the whistle on dishonest reef reports will be present at the Brisbane film release on Sunday July 24.
| All these reports about the Great Barrier Reef bleached white. I’ve visited the reefs reported by the government agencies as dead and dying and instead I’ve found and filmed extraordinary beauty. It is a risk, and it is expensive, deciding to make a film about something way offshore and underwater. I’ve done it twice now – with both films showing at the New Farm Cinema (701 Brunswick Street) in Brisbane this Sunday July 24 at 2:00 PM. Tickets are $20 general admission and $10 for AIP and IPA members. Click here to RSVP and get a ticket. The first film has the title ‘A Coral Bleaching Tragedy’ – and the tragedy is not with the corals but how colourful bleaching is misreported and so misunderstood. The corals at John Brewer Reef through March and April 2022 were putting on a spectacular and colourful show while local and international media falsely reported them as having turned stark white. This film also demonstrates the nonsense of attempting to determine the health of a coral from an aeroplane as report in recent official surveys. To know the true state of the corals it is necessary to get into and under the water. The second film, ‘The Measure of the Great Barrier Reef’, is about a voyage in a little boat to a magical place with crystal clear waters, giant clams, and even bigger corals. Myrmidon Reef is way out on the edge of the South Pacific Ocean beyond the Great Barrier Reef proper. Two of us continually disappearing under the waves with a tape measure to determine the size of the monster boulder corals to know coral growth rates and thus temperature change over the last few hundred years. If you can’t make it to Brisbane but would like to organise you own local showing of these films get in touch – maybe we can organise something at your local cinema. Thanks for caring. Sincerely, Dr Jennifer Marohasy Researcher & Writer PS I was back at that reef last week with my daughter and we found the coral that The Guardian had reported as badly bleached was fully recovered, more at a recent blog post that you can read by clicking here. PSS Peter Ridd will also be at the New Farm Cinema on Sunday. We both so hope to see you there. Buy your ticket, reserve your place by clicking here. |
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Dr Jennifer Marohasy Are you planning to schedule another of these film days on the Barrier Reef. My wife and I (great followers and supporters of Dr Ridd) have just heard of this event this afternnon at 2 pm amd have tried to get tickets only to see that its sold out. Terribly disappointed !
We would like to see the show and have just contacted only 6 of our friends and they are all interested to see it as well.
Norris and Marcia Lewis Toowong Qld
ph 0438 801 822
It makes no sense from an International promotional Tourism point of view that you would say the Australian Barrier Reef was dead and dying if it wasn’t.
Hardly a ‘come on over’ message.
Surely the Tourism Board would have had something to say at the time, maybe even to dispute and question it for their own messaging.
I recall not so long ago (before the Epstein saga), Gislaine Maxwell had her own ‘non-profit’ Oceanic conservation ‘TerraMar’ Foundation which she set up for a ‘global Community of Ocean citizens’.
It’s just not clear who exactly supported this ‘global Community’ at that time.
Her ‘TerraMar’ Foundation was however, a partner of the Clinton Global Initiative for sustainable oceans.
Australia has had previous PM’s involved in the Clinton Global initiative.
Kevin Rudd for example, is noted to have attended the Clinton Global Initiative 5th Annual Meeting and may have even been a speaker.
All UN stuff.
Because the UN care about our Oceans.
I just have a nagging feeling that I heard that the TerraMar Foundation had some interest in the Barrier Reef.
That would not be unusual for someone who “loved the ocean” as Gislaine Maxwell did.
Of course I could be wrong. It’s been a couple of years since I listened to Gislaine’s interview.
All I remember at the time was that it was enlightening.
Despite that, I’m not sure her ‘TerraMar’ project had any real outcomes worth reporting.
If the Great Barrier Reef has ‘recovered’ that would be awesome.
I’m assuming that all that money that was allegedly received from our PM of the day, Malcolm Turnbull was put to good use then.
Or was that money for something else?
I’m assuming it was for the Barrier Reef but then again, I could be wrong.
Maybe someone can enlighten me.
Ridd is an honest and brave man to call out the criminals.
Wowww.. Stop there !! Need no more ?? “The Guardian” ???