Scientists dismiss Warren Entsch’s claim warm water from northern hemisphere is damaging reef

Coalition's Great Barrier Reef envoy also said Australia was a victim of our own success' when it came to coral bleaching

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Coral and ocean scientists have described statements on coral bleaching from the government's reef envoy, Warren Entsch, as far-fetched" and ill-informed" on the day he accompanied more than a dozen ambassadors on a snorkelling trip to the Great Barrier Reef.

Entsch told the ABC on Thursday warm water originating in the northern hemisphere and flowing across the Pacific to the reef was a chief cause of mass coral bleaching.