Ove Hoegh-Guldberg writes in The Conversation (4.3.16) in response to print media criticisms claiming that scientists’ warnings of the effects of climate change upon the Great Barrier Reef are often exaggerated ‘beat-ups’.
‘If you read The Australian or Britain’s The Times this week, you might have concluded that concerns about ocean warming and acidification are all a big beat-up.
‘Based on a study of the expert literature, the newspapers ran with a line that the marine science expert community has a penchant for “doom and gloom stories which has skewed academic reporting” because we only report the bad bits and rarely the good.
‘Given that the majority of scientists in this area (including the hundreds working in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change process) do not feel this is the case, what is going on?’
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