Brian
As Chuck will attest, I don't agree with the climate-change sceptics, but
that's no reason not to listen to reasoned points of view.
And as Bob said, there is no doubt about climate change, the only doubt is how
it has been caused. But for me the main problem is the excessive use of
natural resources and the ruin it is bringing to the planet.
Your inclusion of the link was to support your own particular prejudice about
climate change. I think that it was ill-advised and it's not surprising that
you got the reaction you did. Climate change is a reasonable subject for the
List if you come at it from a reasoned point of view; you don't, I believe. I
understand your frustration about a monopoly in the news media, but for an
interviewer to spend time at the start of his interview engaged in a rant is to
me quite unprofessional.
As for whether Monckton would have been given a job advising Thatcher if he
didn't know what he was talking about, I'm afraid that you are naive if you
think that a qualification. Thatcher had her agenda and she was probably going
to get someone to advise her who agreed with her -- by the end of her stint in
power, at least.
Chris
On 6 Aug 2011, at 07:15, Brian Swale wrote:
> Chris didn't like what Leighton Smith said about the other NZ media ( as you
> will see if you read my first page, he didn't get far into the audio).
> Most NZ print Media are now controlled by the Fairfax group; so much so
> that the NZPA (NZ Press Association) has either just gone out of business
> or is considering it because Fairfax do not want the NZPA independent
> reporting and there are but few independent papers left to be clients.
> Fairfax
> reporters are a tame lot.
>
> Leighton doesn't mince his words. He tells it like it is, and his audience
> like it
> that way. He is not PC.
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