Bishop Hill GLOBE story develops legs
Apr 28, 2011 Climate: Parliament Ted Lapkin at the Australian website The Drum, picks up the GLOBE story.
It was just a little too convenient. A little bit too self-serving. An internally commissioned investigation into the ‘Climate-gate’ scandal at the University of East Anglia that exonerated the alleged malefactors, despite evidence indicating serious impropriety.
I originally assumed that the whitewash – or should I say greenwash? – of the university’s Climactic Research Unit was the product of simple ideological bias. After all, the chairman of the Scientific Assessment Panel, Lord Ronald Oxburgh, is himself an outspoken global warming activist.
But then the plot thickened. It turned out that Oxburgh wasn’t only politically partial to the theory of anthropogenic global warming, but he had a financial interest in the business of climate change as well.
Bishop Hill
Matt Ridley picks up on the story here.
Reader Comments (10)
I read articles like this and seethe at how the mainstream media is letting us all down in this matter.
The Press....an institution in terminal decline. It cannot go soon enough for me.
Do not get me started on the BBC....they do not just ignore the problem....they are a sizeable part of it.
That this appeared on the (Australian) ABC's "The Drum" is, in itself, perhaps the most positive sign to date that there is a burgeoning swing away from media unanimity on the AGW front. Until recently, the ABC has been right up there (or is it down) with the BBC in lockstep with the climate alarmists. I'd go as far as to say that Ted Lapkin's article would have had no chance of publication on that or any other ABC forum even as recently as three or four months ago and certainly not before events at Copenhagen tore the last scraps of alarmist credibility to shreds. Perhaps it's happening because the ABC's favourite guest, Timbo the Clown (Flannery), has gone extremely well-rewarded from the sublime to the ridiculous as the Australian Government's new Commissioner for Toyota and Panasonic tasked with selling the mooted Carbon Tax to an increasingly sceptical public.
Some things are simply beyond satire.
Having read Ted Lapkin's Opinion on "The Drum", and the subsequent comments, I am astounded at how the CAGW advocates, who, although intelligent enough to string words together, are not intelligent enough to recognise their comments for the hysterical rubbish that they are.
There does not appear to be a solitary individual pro-CAGW commenter that is capable of contributing to the discussion without repeating something from the entirely recognisable warmist mantra such as, 'debunked' (their favourite), 'Exxon funded', 'Phillip Morris funded', '97% of scientists say' etc, ad nauseum.
How can they be sustained in their belief by such repetitive garbage?
Ted's certainly caused a stir amongst the readership. He taken a real pasting in the comments with about nine out of ten comments being almost abusive.
He's certainly kicked over a hornets' nest of AGW advocates... Such a shame that they're so very, very long on ad hominem and so very, very short on ad rem! :-)
It's interesting to see this article on the ABC site.
It's a bit like inviting the Pope to speak at an Orange Walk.
The level of rage exhibited in the responses is not unsurprising.
Lapkin has quite clearly made up his mind about AGW science, that much is clear from his last paragraph. So can his judgement on Oxburgh for instance be considered impartial ? Probably not because Lapkin is an activist and lobbyist himself at the IPA with funding from the usual suspects .
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_of_Public_Affairs
Lapkin is a paid employee of the IPA which is a "think tank" (translates as opinions for hire) run by the Liberal Party (our conservatives) for the polluting industries in Australia. If he had actually written an article supporting AGW then he would have been fired.
Lapkin may not be impartial but he was not chairman of a chums Whitewash press released as 'Independent'.
Malcolm: "Lapkin is a paid employee of the IPA ..."
Every pro-AGW advocate in the media is a paid employee. Thats the point of the article. The subsidies for "green power" are so massive they have corrupted everyone even remotely connected with them.