errors and is deliberately ignoring evidence." Another rebuttal of a Bolt blog post was published in 2011, saying "What is more surprising is the numerous occasions that Mr. Bolt engaged in false attributions and misrepresented qualifiers. One would expect as a fully-paid member of the chattering class that he would at least have a better level of reading comprehension than what was displayed. These mistakes can either be attributed to political partisanship or poor journalism. In either case it certainly reduces the trustworthiness of Mr. Bolt." The scientific consensus on coral reef bleaching and the effect of climate change is overwhelming, and studies with evidence to the contrary have been found to be flawed. In March 2019, Hoegh-Guldberg was named one of the world's top 100 most influential people in climate policy by Apolitical, joining natural historian David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg, former United States of America vice-president Al Gore and many others. Personal life Ove Hoegh-Guldberg is married to Sophie Dove, and has two children, Chris and Fiona. Dove, who he met in 1983 in Los Angeles, has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh, a PhD in Biological Sciences from University of Sydney, and is now an associate professor at the University of Queensland, also specialising in coral reefs and the impacts of climate change. Hoegh-Guldberg has worked with David Attenborough, who described him saying "It’s easy enough to imagine the ostrich-like capacity of any of us, when we see something we don’t like to stick our head in the sand… Well, Ove doesn’t do that." Positions Professor of Marine Studies, University of Queensland Director, Global Change Institute, University of Queensland Past Director, Centre for Marine Studies, University of Queensland Past Director, Heron Island, Low Isles and Moreton Bay Research Stations Director, Stanford Australia Program Deputy Director, ARC Centre for Excellence for Reef Studies Visiting Professor, Stanford University Awards UCLA Distinguished Scholar Award (1988) Robert D. Lasiewski Award, UCLA (1989) Sydney University Award for Excellence in Teaching (1996) The Eureka Prize for Scientific Research (1999) Wesley College (University of Sydney) Medal (2009) Queensland 2008 Smart State Premier's Fellow (2008–2013) Australian Laureate Fellowship (2012) Banksia International Award (2016) Notes 1959 births Australian climatologists Australian ecologists Australian marine biologists Australian people of Danish descent Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead authors Living people Non-fiction environmental writers University of Queensland