By Jennifer Marohasy | February 20, 2022 The concept of ocean acidification, and human-caused global warming more generally, could be described as containing a grain of truth embedded in a mountain of nonsense. Indeed, the projected large increase in atmospheric CO2 will at most cause a small reduction in pH – it will not turn […]
By Eric Worral | Watts Up With That? | March 3, 2021 Peter Ridd is right – the Great Barrier Reef is not in immediate danger of dying. James Cook University, Peter Ridd’s adversary in his unfair dismissal court case, has just slightly walked back some of their more ridiculous Great Barrier Reef extinction claims. […]
Corals expert hits out at media reports
GWPF | October 15, 2020
Claims that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has lost half of its coral cover between 1995 and 2017 have received global media coverage.
Eight fish studies were double-checked. Not one was accurate. By Donna Laframboise | Big Picture News | January 13, 2020 Science proves… Science says… Research shows… Every week, the above phrases are employed by TV personalities, newspaper journalists, coworkers, friends, and family. When these phrases are uttered, certain ideas get elevated above the fray, enthroned […]
Watts Up With That? | September 5, 2019 Dr. Peter Ridd sends this update via email: The court just announced that we have been awarded around $1.2 million (provisional on submissions). This case was always about academic freedom. It was a fight that should never have started in the first place. I have worked for […]
A powerful bureaucracy bullies, berates, isolates, and intimidates a lone critic. By Donna Laframboise | Big Picture News | April 24, 2019 The Peter Ridd court ruling, released last week, is a re-telling of David and Goliath. This is a story about a bureaucratic in-group persecuting a dissenting voice. It’s also a story about widespread […]
James Cook University took 28 separate actions against Professor Ridd. Each of them, including his termination, has been declared unlawful. By Donna Laframboise | Big Picture News | April 22, 2019 Few victories are as complete as the one achieved last week by Peter Ridd in the Federal Circuit Court of Australia. A former head […]
By Binoy Kampmark | Dissident Voice | December 20, 2018 It has been an ordinary year for universities in Australia. While the National Tertiary Education Union pats itself on the back for supposedly advancing the rights and pay of academics, several face removal and castigation at the hands of university management. Consumerism and pay are […]
By Dr Peter Ridd | The Global Warming Policy Forum | December 12, 2018 Scientists from James Cook University have just published a paper on the bleaching and death of corals on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and were surprised that the death rate was less than they expected because of the adaptability of corals […]
By Jennifer Marohasy | June 19, 2018 Dr Peter Ridd has taken James Cook University to court protesting his sacking for what he says is, primarily, speaking-out about the lack of quality assurance in Great Barrier Reef science. Dr Ridd spoke out initially about there being no quality assurance of Great Barrier Reef science – […]
