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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill David Henderson on Newsnight
Feb 18, 2010 Climate: CRU Climate: Sceptics Viewers in Scotland should be able to catch David Henderson talking about climate policy in the wake of Climategate on Newsnight tonight. I gather it's only going to be shown on the Scottish edition of the programme, so those of you south of the border will miss out unless it turns up on YouTube.
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Newsnight for Scotland is available to us southerners after the event on iPlayer
Anyone with Sky outside of Scotland can see the Scottish Newsnight on channel 990 - 11pm.
The URL for the video is here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qzkrf/Newsnight_Scotland_18_02_2010/
It's the first thing dealt with on the program.
Rob Edwards has been reporting on things "environmental" for decades in Scotland and many people seem to hold him in high regard. I'm not one of them.
Given that his employer, The Herald, runs a story today (no by-line) which quotes Scotland's "Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change" (Stewart Stevenson) as saying that "It is clear that we will need to harness low carbon technologies to respond to the challenge of climate change and keep the pledge made in Copenhagen to limit the increase in global temperatures to 2C".
He adds that, "Scotland is leading the way on the development of renewable energy including planned wind farms".
www.heraldscotland.com/news/transport-environment/scotland-leading-the-way-on-climate-change-says-minister-1.1007675
Given the national importance of the Two-Degrees target, the question that springs to mind is where Stevenson was when his policy needed defending on the "flagship" Newsnight Scotland. Gosh, nowhere to be found. We'd better wheel out tired old eco-hack Rob Edwards to take the flak instead.
Give him his due - he had the decency to keep schtum about Two-Degrees Twaddle, suggesting that he's not quite as scientifically illiterate (or cynical) as Stevenson, who is, after all, a veteran on the provincial politics circuit.
I agree that David Henderson did very well despite being a bit nervous.