At last the Australians Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Tax payers TV has taken its first tentative step toward braodcasting some balance in the Global Warning Debate.
TICKY FULLERTON, PRESENTER: There’s another voice raising alarm at the impact of emissions trading on the resource sector.
Professor Ian Plimer is one of the few scientists roundly pooh poohing the theory of human induced climate change. He is a geologist, not a climatologist who argues that actual events in the earth’s history tells us far more than climate models of the future…..
The interviewed was screened at about 11pm on a Tuesday night, but its a start. Interviewer Ticky Fullerton wants to know how the media and the government could have it so wrong.
TICKY FULLERTON: You are a greenhouse heretic, if I may say so. How can so many governments and the media have got it wrong?
IAN PLIMER: Well heretic is quite correct. That’s a religious word and that’s what we’re dealing with- a modern political religion.
Governments do not seem to understand that the UN is a political organisation and there were scientists who were seeking fame and fortune, there’s not much money around, and if you can get on that bandwagon, then you can have yourself funded and have a great party frightening people witless.
It seems to come as a complete surprise to Fullerton that there are a large number of skeptics in the community who agree with Plimer. Granted she would not have met any hanging around the ABC cafeteria or water coolers.
TICKY FULLERTON: …. what I am interested in this is the talk that you gave last week to the Sydney Mining Club.
What sort of response did you get?
IAN PLIMER: Well I had a phenomenal response. It was overbooked, people couldn’t come in, I’m getting a couple of hundred emails a day as a result of it.
TICKY FULLERTON: Is the scepticism genuine or is this also about economic self interest.
IAN PLIMER: Well I can’t speak for others but scepticism is an integral part of science and when we have sceptical views regarded pejoratively then I think we’re abandoning science.
And I would argue that the current campaign is one that has abandoned science and has taken on the place of socialism and a new type of religion.
Whilst the interview was an eye opening experience for presenter Ticky Fullerton, lets hope its the start of a shift in the ABC’s coverage of the issue which up to now has been totally biased toward the global warming hysteria brigade.
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