Alan Jones Launches Reef Protection Site Hours After Denying Climate Change

Jones took a helicopter tour over bleached areas of the reef, and in his limitless scientific expertise deemed that the reef was actually in pretty good nick and would eventually recover. “There are cycles in all of this – the reef regenerates its­elf,” he told the Cairns Post. “The reality is that northern section was here thousands of years ago and will be for the next thousand.”

Now he’s launched a brand spankin’ new reef conservation website called Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef, the purpose of which is to conserve the reef. He launched this site mere hours after telling his listeners that the reef is actually fine. Which is it, mate? Does it need conservation, or is it all good?

“The global warming alarmists will stop at nothing,” Jones said on his radio show literally just before launching the site in Cairns. “Green groups run a very different agenda. If they can prove there’s an armageddon on the way they’ll get money. They want to talk about climate change and shut down everything.”

The Guardian reports that “several partners of the Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef project had put out reports stating the climate change is the biggest risk facing the Great Barrier Reef”. It’s not known if he is aware of that or even cares in the slightest. 

The chairman of the foundation, Alex De Waal, told The Guardian that the organisation is willing to engage with a variety of people to get the message out there. De Waal said: “Anybody that comes to us and says we want to tell the community about the Citizens of the GBR program, we are very encouraging. We are very agnostic in terms of anyone who is able to drive and generate visitation to citizensofgbr.org.”

Welp. Turns out believing that the reef is actually fine and will fix itself is perfect qualification to launch an organisation dedicated to… conserving the reef.