Climate Change Shows No Barrier Reef Is an Island: Iain McCalman
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Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- One of the saddest byproducts ofAustralia’s current political squabbling over climate change isthe way the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest livingorganism, has become caught in the crossfire. It wasn’t alwaysso.
In 2001, I sailed on a replica of James Cook’s ship,Endeavour, under simulated 18th-century conditions through asizable chunk of the reef’s more than 2,000-kilometer (1,243-mile) length. We were re-enacting for television the mosttesting stretches of Cook’s first voyage to Australia in 1770.