[Coral-List] reassessing coral reefs
Osmar Luiz
osmarjluiz at gmail.com
Fri Apr 10 09:26:19 EDT 2015
Attack the messenger is necessary when a piece of news is obviously edited to mislead lay readers. This is bad because it allows opportunists to spread the wrong message, assuming that it was published by a supposed “trustful” source. I don’t believe that those opportunists are naive enough to believe in what they spread. What amazes me is their naiveté in that they will fool a bunch of intelligent people with such sloppy journalism..
Osmar
On 10 Apr 2015, at 12:28 am, Eugene Shinn <eugeneshinn at mail.usf.edu> wrote:
> Guess I stirred up a lot of muddy water with the report on coral growth
> in the Australian newspaper. I thank Dough Fenner for pointing out that
> the report is on a 2012 paper published in Science.I missed that however
> I do remember reading the original paper. I think the take home message
> is that in areas where the water is usually quite cool it is logical for
> coral growth to increase when the water warms. Think “just right” as in
> the Goldilocks story.And yes Porities is a fairly tough coral.While with
> USGS we cored large Porities heads that survived near Atomic bomb tests
> at Eniwetok atoll. Based on analysis of annual growth rings we found
> that several smaller heads began growing on the edge of a bomb crater
> within a year of the event.
>
> The photo of the diver coring the head coral appalled Dennis Hubbard as
> it did me. The photo showed all the divers equipment as well as the
> diver resting on the coral head. In the past we cored over a hundred
> head corals and never touched them except with the drill bit.
>
> It was interesting that one reader took the “kill the messenger”
> approach taking the newspaper to task because it is a Rupert Murdock
> product. Is that the way we do science? Read the article in Science and
> evaluate that.
>
> Earlier comments about the hypocrisy of coral scientists using air
> travel to study distant coral reefs, reminded me of a recent gathering
> of climate activists in Switzerland. They came from far and wide in
> approximately 700 different private jets. Yes it was reported on Fox
> news. What other network would have reported it?Hypocrisy is all around
> us. It shows up when we attack the messenger instead of the message. Gene
>
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