The Great Barrier Reef isn’t dead yet. According to News Corp that makes climate science a ‘pseudo-religion’

An editorial in the Australian newspaper claimed the ‘continued good health’ of the Great Barrier Reef was proof of ‘climate change doom’. Image shows coral bleaching at Lizard island in 2024. Photograph: Justin Marshall

The Australian newspaper appeared to think it had a slam-dunk this week with a front page story pointing to official government data which showed “the Great Barrier Reef is refusing to die” despite decades of warnings that global heating would cause its demise.

In an editorial to back its reporting, the newspaper claimed the “continued good health” of the reef was a “welcome reminder that physics rather than the pseudo-religion of climate change doom still holds sway over the natural order.”