Tide may be turning on global warming, but not at the ABC
Mark Henderson The tide may be turning on the global warming crowd but the ABC’s 7.30 Report is still manning the barricades fighting the good fight to the bitter end.
Last night the program tried to pretend it was meeting the ABC’s charter on balance by running an item about the visit of Lord Monckton, currently the most prominent critic of global warming alarmism.
But it was balance in name only.
This was a hatchet job done in a way they would never have done on Al Gore.
Neither men are climate scientists and both have a political background (of sorts – Monckton was an advisor to former British PM Margaret Thatcher).
But Gore gets treated with reverence while Monckton is given the once over.
For instance, the large crowd turning out to hear Monckton are dismissed as true believers – something they wouldn’t say about Gore’s crowd.
A climate activist is given a slot on the show to argue that “I think it’s very dangerous for us to take scientific advice from someone like that (Monckton)”.
But an actual former politician like Gore is fine for The 7.30 Report.
Then we get this line from reporter Tracy Bowden: Some scientists are not prepared to discuss Lord Monckton for fear of giving him more exposure.
Tracy, sure some scientists are not prepared to discuss Lord Monckton because they know he would shoot them down in flames.
It is hard to imagine Bowden and The 7.30 report letting other people hide behind a defence like that.
And can you imagine The 7.30 Report putting up this proposition about Al Gore: Lord Monckton is entertaining, he’s a good speaker, is he dangerous?
Then there is this comment from Bowden: Some scientists counter your claims saying you’re actually part of a full scale orchestrated misinformation campaign.
If anything has been shown to be a “full scale orchestrated misinformation campaign” it is the people exposed in the Climategate scandal.
Then there was this from John Connor – one of the usual suspects dragged out to promote global warming: Claims that he’s made around a world government being formed quietly behind the scenes is just crazy stuff, frankly.
But is it? Read Janet Albrechtsen here.
The tide may be turning in the global warming debate but don’t expect to see it on The 7.30 Report.
i saw the trailer & knew it wasn’t worth the frustration. I didn’t like the look of it then & am not surprised to read that it was good ol’, despised (formerly adored) Aunty at her biased, lefty, commo, feminazi best.
Needles to say, i watched something else. And haven’t watched Mad Dog Kerry for nearly 12 months (or any ABC, for that matter).
I no longer care to defend it, as i once would have.
I watched Kerry O’Brian interview Tony Abbott and was not at all surprised at what occurred. It was the usual ABC set up – biased in favour of the Government just as all ABC so-called debates like Q & A. Lateline etc. The ABC is just a mirror image of the B.B.C. who the ABC copy practicaly word for word.
My wife asks me why I watch these when I so clearly find them distressing. My reply is that I simply wish to know what these deceitful arrogant bastards are thinking so that I may confound them if I can.
Oz is in real peril with such people running our public broadcasting.
I watch this so-called debate and it was a disgraced. The ABC no matter how they try cannot hide bias. They have become a propaganda machine for the Labor Government and therefore have no journalistic integrity left.
FYI:
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8491154.stm?ad=1
http://www.spectator.co.uk/print/politics/all/5749853/the-global-warming-guerrillas.thtml
Let’s be honest here, the ABC is a shill for the Labor Party, Labor Government(s) and all left wing causes.
Expecting this mob to be fair and balanced is like expecting Christopher Hitchens to have an amiable dinner with the Pope.