[Coral-List] Negative Press following ICES J Marine Science Issue on 'Ocean Acidification'

[Séverine Fourdrilis]

Dear Richard, dear coral listers,

You say that we have to 'sell' our work to the general public and you are
right.
This morning I have read this article
https://theconversation.com/its-not-doom-and-gloom-to-point-out-whats-really-happening-to-coral-reefs-55695
from Ove Hoegh-Guldberd, in response to the bad press in the Britain's
Time. He's doing a great work in communicating with the public.

Séverine Fourdrilis

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2016-03-04 11:58 GMT+01:00 Richard Dunne <RichardPDunne at aol.com>:

> This week an influential British newspaper, The London Times, published
> two critical viewpoints of coral ocean acidification research.
>
> This stemmed from the publication of the Special Issue on 'Towards a
> Broader Perspective on Ocean Acidification' in ICES J Marine Science
> (https://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/content/current ).
>
> I have long felt that we have been guilty of 'over egging' this aspect
> of the global warming debate in the face of very little hard evidence.
> This 'bad press' is a salutary lesson that we need to be more careful
> and critical at all stages of these scientific endeavours. Ultimately we
> have to 'sell' our work to the general public and this illustrates that
> so far we have not done very well. It has consequences for the general
> message that coral reefs are under threat.
>
> The two articles and snippets from them are (I hope the links work):
>
> Scientists ‘are exaggerating carbon threat to marine life’
>
> http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4702412.ece?shareToken=dd25504126871fc69affa29067a8d764
> "Claims that coral reefs are doomed because human emissions are making
> the oceans more acidic have been exaggerated, a review of the science
> has found".
>
> Science is turning back to the dark ages
>
> http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4705093.ece?shareToken=1c72c372c736752e9b4fce2fd232bab6
> "Overplaying the threat to coral reefs is just the latest example of
> ideology distorting research"
>
>
> Richard Dunne
>
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