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"Balancing" climate change 2
Criticism of The Great Climate Change Swindle continues. George Monbiot keeps up the pressure in the Guardian today: Channel 4 has always had a problem with science. No one in its science unit appears to understand the difference between a peer-reviewed paper and a clipping from the Daily Mail. It keeps commissioning people whose claims…
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"Balancing" climate change
The other night on UK television’s Channel 4 Richard Lindzen presented a programme called The Great Climate Change Swindle. [See Martin Moore] Lindzen dissents vocally from the scientific consensus, in arguing that climate change is not man made. But Lindzen goes beyond just dissent in his views on policy. Here’s part of liberal academic blogger…
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Royal Television Society Journalism awards
So the Royal Television Society‘s journalism awards… Strange things journalism awards ceremonies. Last year’s winner might struggle to make this year’s shortlist. Journalists work so much in the ‘now’ that any review is a vaguely uncomfortable reminder of tragedy, hubris or injustice. Still, the RTS is a real peer review process, as they say in…
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Preaching hate…
Whenever enthusiasts talk politics, there’s always someone who wants to do it John Major style. No, not with Edwina Currie. I mean with a soapbox. Wistful politics junkies cast an eye back to the day when the power of the human voice alone inspired roomfuls of people to act! Political engagement! Bring it on! The…