Media 'fact checks' proclaiming climate change's impact on the Great Barrier Reef are a form of "covering up all the dodgy predictions they've made in the past", Marine Physicist Dr Peter Ridd says.
An Instagram post by Sky News host Rita Panahi was fact checked by the Agence France-Presse fact checker.
The posts show two tweets about the Great Barrier Reef superimposed over a photo of climate activist Greta Thunberg.
One tweet from 2014 was about scientists' predictions that climate change will "wreck irreversible damage" to the Reef by 2030 – the other was from 2022 about the rebound in coral growth recorded by the Australian Institute of Marine Science.
"I've been fact checked probably three or four times by Australian Associated Press – they always come to the same conclusion that the Reef is doomed," Dr Ridd told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
"They've been proven to be wrong again and again and again and these fact checks are just a form of covering up all the dodgy predictions they've made in the past."
