Let nature do its thing

ON Thursday, April 19 a report on the ABC Radio National AM program said there was a report that the Great Barrier Reef coral has been “cooked” by a heatwave and will never recover.

A reviewer of the scientific report agreed but not mentioned was where, and what percentage of the GBR is damaged, cooked. Is this another scaremongering report being promoted by the ABC?

I ask this because since the claims of climate change we are subjected to perennial reports in support of the Paris Agreement to reduce the CO2 emissions from the use of fossil fuels.

I question such predictions and offer these examples of nature recovering when scientists have promoted doom and gloom.

There have been three massive releases of oil in the past three- quarters of a century, the oil release from ships sunk during WWII, especially in the Truk Islands lagoon, the second at King William Sound when a tanker struck a reef and lastly the BP drilling blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.

There were no environmental or scientific claims on the first but remember the last two. Marine scientists claimed that both the Arctic and Tropical environments would never recover from the poisoning of marine life and the Global Greens shouted obscenities for months.

So where are these doomsayers today after these events? All are silent as they hide in darkened rooms because nature as always recovers in this area and in the case of Alaska the scientific solution to steam clean the oil from the shoreline was disastrous.

What was not known is that the heat killed the organisms that finally and naturally consumed the oil from all shores.

Nature is just that, and here in Australia, many landforms have recovered naturally once farming and other activities have ceased. Even along our highways and national parks after clearing and bushfires have ravaged the vegetation, over time all recovered.

The same natural recovery will bring back the corals and all other forms of life. This will happen as day follows night, and the planet warms and cools, what we intelligent animals do and cease will recover naturally. ROBERT S. BUICK,

Mountain Creek.