{"id":342,"date":"2007-03-10T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2007-03-10T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T15:02:00","slug":"balancing-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/03\/balancing-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":""Balancing" climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>he other night on UK television’s Channel 4 Richard Lindzen<\/a> presented a programme called The Great Climate Change Swindle<\/span>. [See Martin Moore<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Lindzen dissents<\/a> vocally<\/a> from the scientific<\/a> consensus, in arguing that climate change is not man made.<\/p>\n

But Lindzen goes beyond just dissent in his views on policy. Here’s part of liberal academic blogger Jim Casey<\/a>‘s account<\/a> of one of his talks from 2006:<\/p>\n

Richard was invited to my campus (Washington and Lee University) last week to give a public talk about \u201cGlobal Climate Change.\u201d His talk was titled Climate Alarmism and Scientific Illiteracy<\/span> … [He] started with the theme of scientific illiteracy and how this enables the media to exploit the public and create what he calls climate alarmism. In the end he concluded by saying the only way to restrict CO2 emissions was to restrict wealth creation \u2013 which is NOT correct – and he finished with an unequivocal conclusion \u2013 nothing should be done to reduce CO2 emissions and any policy with this objective is too costly because there are no benefits to doing so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Presumably Lindzen is the global warm-up man for Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth<\/span>, which C4 bought in February for airing in 2008. Yup, that’s what we in journalism call “balance.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[231],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-channel-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}