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That's one of the main topics discussed in the interview - the idea that journalism is concerned with 'balance'. Most scientists are agreed. How does the media balance that? Put 95 climate scientists up against David Bellamy? Is the RTE Prime Time studio set up for that kind of panel?
No, his point was unambiguous.
Weather (which includes cold snaps and heavy rain) is not climate, except when he wants it to be.
You people make me laugh
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Third Assessment Report: “long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.”
John Gibbons had a regular following of Deniers (as well as avid warmers) in the Have your Say section of the Times.
I have to say, I feel I may have contributed in some small way to his downfall.
John latched himself on to the Global Warming bandwagon, and it's terrible when you've been proven to be wrong and so gullable.
It's one thing to be a warmer, but to have a totally arrogant, intolerent, condescending, snooty tone to others of a different view, gave the IT a bad name.
John, in my opinion had a predisposition for supporting a Planetary Government based on saving humainty from itself. There are too many of us etc etc went a headline in the Times.
In the end John Gibbons started to mock the Deniers "Why debate facts with fools?"
Have a look in the mirror John. You're in a corridor of mirrors, where all you can see is your own reflection.
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But Conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;but one must take it simply because it is right. -MLK
I basically agree with this. Gibbons is having lines and evidence fed to him by the interviewer. It reads like an interview with a Minister or a spokesman in a party magazine.
If Gibbons objects to being featured on the same page as someone who disagrees with him, perhaps a newspaper is not the best medium to choose.
So the IT is finally rid of that twit. maybe there is hope for the IT yet. Journalistic integrity is more important that the 'coming climite crisis' or what ever is the current uber-liberal madness.
Next up should be RTE's cancellation of that unquestioning crap that is 'Eco Eye'.
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Journalists rarely make any attempt to provide balance in that sense. They usually just write something that boils down to "Someone says X. Others disagree." - little or no attempt is made to indicate whether X is a mainstream theory opposed by a couple of cranks, or a crank theory opposed by nearly everyone.
Never let the best be the enemy of the good.
The purpose of journalism IMO is to tell the story of events that questions the narrative coming from governments and big business.
"But do 'climategate' revelations justify the sceptics’ claims that this is “the final nail in the coffin” of global warming theory? Not at all. They damage the credibility of three or four scientists. They raise questions about the integrity of one or perhaps two out of several hundred lines of evidence."
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A good interview. I never realised there were so many sceptics in the media.
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A compelling case for AGW, that.
Never let the best be the enemy of the good.
Richard Tol is well worth reading, he has a global reputation as an economist studying environmental issues - and it is well deserved imo
The Irish Economy Richard Tol
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