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Bishop Hill The Monckton show
Jan 31, 2011 BBC Climate: Sceptics The BBC is running another show about sceptics, this time featuring Lord Monckton. Tonight BBC4.
Skeptics from PTV Productions on Vimeo.
Reader Comments (56)
geoffchambers
Have to agree with pretty much all you say at 7:57pm.
This is what desperate & inept football teams do. Play the man not the ball. Hockey is even worse.
As the BBC lawyer said
"an injunction should not be granted as, though "dressed up" as a claim in contract, the real complaint was one of defamation. "
Should be interesting
The link you give for CM on BBC4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y5j3v
does not open in Australia (Outside the region message). Any chance you can did up a more global link? Tried other options from this end and failed. Ta Geoff.
I watched 'Meet the Climate Sceptics' and started to feel that Christopher Monckton was on a hiding to nothing, especially given Murrray's patronising use of 'Christopher' throughout the piece.
As it was filmed following CM around Australia, it seemed interesting that Murray did not wheel out an interview with Bob Carter while he was there. Perhaps he feared it would knock his ideas too much. The fact is, as I came to think about it, was that Murray was intent on finding something, anything about CM that he could use against him. Eventually he found one citation (at the end of the program) that was not as CM had stated. CM immediately put his hand up to that and explained himself. The fact was that the actual argument of the scientific point was not disputed, just the citation. It would be interesting to apply Murray's strictures then to such a 'An Inconvenient truth' and see how many howlers could be found there.
Penultimately, Murray gave CM a 'right of reply' by 'allowing' him to make a statement to camera. The disgraceful thing about that was that it was very subtly edited (you can just see CM's head jerk out of sequence with the flow).
But finally, after trying to sell himself as a seeker after truth, Murray blew his whole facade away when he stated that the 2010/11 floods in Queensland were the 'worst since Queensland was founded'!!
The term "global warming skeptic" in itself portrays a negative spin when it is simply an alternate view proposed by scientists or people discussing the opinions of these scientists. Generally scientists holding this alternate view against anthropogenic global warming have a lot to lose by voicing their opinions and their income isn't reliant on their maintaining their views as any many scientists who are on the anthropogenic global warming supporters club. Anthropogenic global warming has created a huge industry reliant on grants and donations as long as they stick to the dogma. Anyone with an alternate hypothesis is immediately cut off. Scientists against the view that anthropogenic global warming is a valid hypothesis are of the same calibre as those for it so why aren't they given an equal opportunity to join in the discussion ? Usually they are shouted down or vilified before they have an opportunity to speak.
What's going on, what are those for it afraid of ? Surely an open fair discussion is the only way to get to the truth of the matter.