Dr Peter Ridd & Peter Richards on The Damien Richardson Show - 21 March 2023

On today's show Dr Peter Ridd discusses the latest IPCC report which calls for more action to protect the Great Barrier Reef, and Peter Richards talks about the Australian government's insane position on Ukraine.

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Dr Peter Ridd is a geophysicist with over 100 publications and 35 years’ experience working on the Great Barrier Reef and developed a wide range of world-first optical and electronic instruments for measuring environmental conditions near corals and other ecosystems. He was head of Physics at James Cook University for over a decade before being fired, in 2018, for questioning the quality assurance systems used by reef science institutions. Some of the poor-quality work relates to the effect, or lack of effect, of climate change, and agriculture, on the reef. Dr Ridd now works, unpaid, with agricultural organisations, and the Institute of Public Affairs to improve quality assurance systems of “science” used by Australian governments to make environmental laws and regulations.

GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Peter Richards is a retired '2 Commando Unit' from the Australian Army. He is a Veteran of multiple tours and his interests are in tensions within China and the Russia and Ukraine conflict.