Greenpeace has been fined $A15,000 after the Rainbow Warrior II sliced through a large coral reef formation as it pulled into the Phillipines as part of a campaign to raise awareness about the importance of protecting coral reefs, including from climate change.
According to ABC Online, Greenpeace campaign manager Red Constantino said “The chart indicated we were a mile and a half from the coral reef when the ship ran aground.”
New reef perhaps?
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.
I had to re-read the story, delicious irony;
*GREENPEACE is to be fined after its flagship Rainbow Warrior II damaged a coral reef in the central Philippines during a climate change awareness campaign…..
…..Mr Constantino said that Greenpeace divers on the Tubbataha expedition had found that healthy coral and no evidence of bleaching, believed to be caused by warming sea temperatures.
He said the healthy state of the Tubbataha Reefs did not disprove the theory of global warming, which he described as an “extremely complicated science”.*
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17104337-28793,00.html
Could it be that the reason Greenpeace ran into the reef was that it was healthy and with no evidence of bleaching? Removal of contrary evidence perhaps. Did it also involve an accidental discharge of bullshit?
whatever financial value that greenpeace shoulder about the accident is not enough……