![]() Same thing up our way with the thriving/disappearing polar bears. And the mainstream media thrive on bad news, so they lap it all up. When your career, income, status and reputation are based on untruths, you have little choice but to double down in the face of inconvenient facts, and a little colour manipulation becomes justified because you’re saving the planet (and saving your own arse, not to mention your own ass). There are obviously a number of influential people whose careers are built on the narrative of the GBR being in danger from ocean warming. What does it say about Western civilization that journalists, scientist, and politicians routinely claim the corals at the Great Barrier Reef are suffering, when they are actually quite healthy? How sick are we, or at least the journalists, scientists and politicians who tell such untrue stories about the Great Barrier Reef. To read more about the history of the fake photograph republished this weekend by The Guardian, click here. There was no mass bleaching of the corals fringing Heron Island in October 2014. The photograph was almost certainly taken on 22 October 2014 at Heron Island, though this date and place is rarely if ever included, nor any information about the postproduction colour stripping or lack of colour balance. Some time ago I tracked the photograph down and found the original on Flickr. Why have they republished this fraud – this fake? Given the famous scientist, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, has spent the last thirty years working on the reef, and according to Readfearn has witnessed so many devasting bleaching events, why didn’t they use one of his photographs? Doesn’t he have any? Is it the case he doesn’t have any of mass bleaching? It is the only photograph of coral, accompanying a feature story in The Guardian by Graham Readfearn. I’ve been ignored, click here for more information.Īnd, alas, this same photograph has now been republished in The Guardian this weekend. ![]() ![]() I have written to the Sydney Morning Herald about it, to Catlin Surveys affiliated with the University of Queensland and UNESCO, and also David Vevers from Washington-based The Ocean Agency. It is a fraud to strip the colour from this photograph, and/or to not undertake correct colour balance post production. What is not right, I would go so far as to describe it as sick, is when the colours are stripped from these already pale corals to make them look bleached, as though they risk imminent mass death. Often the colour is from the fish, with the most common colour of coral, the world over, and since forever, being beige. I wish this wasn’t the world that I lived in, because the Great Barrier Reef is still so colourful. It relies on the general population being fearful – children anxious and the more so the better. Nowadays, Great Barrier Reef research is big business, all funded by the government. Greeting cards and postcards were once big business and everyone wanted them more colourful. They strip colour from pretty pictures because they want to make people feel sad, specifically about the corals at the Great Barrier Reef. Nowadays scientist regularly do the opposite. So, for example, she could add more pink to the cheeks of young girls on holidays at the beach. She was allowed to be creative the idea was to make people happy. My Aunty Bunty used to work in a factory in Dundee, in Scotland, with thousands of other women all adding colour to black and white photographs.
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