On Dec 5, 12:09*pm, Alastair wrote:
On Dec 5, 10:38*am, Paul C wrote:





On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:56:11 -0800 (PST), Scott W

wrote:
Was most disappointed with Newsnight tonight... we were promised

"As the United Nations decides to conduct its own investigation into e-
mails leaked from the University of East Anglia, we'll be hearing from
inside the bunker for the first time. A scientist there tells us that
his colleagues have been traduced. A sceptical voice from the US
responds"

Instead we were given something which resembled PMQs. I commend the
BBC for giving this airtime - but the chairmanship of the two voices
was awful. I'm surprised Piers wasn't wheeled out as well...

Mind you I thought the description of the sceptic and the end was
pretty much spot on. "What an a***hole!"

You can see the item again here on the BBC I-Playerhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p92nx/Newsnight_04_12_2009/
Martha Kearney apologises later.

What people here ought to realise is that the US sceptics are far
worse than even our dear *Lawrence. These are the people to whom Prof.
Jones was refusing to give his data.

If you want an academic argument then watch this debate on the Daily
Politics!http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...s/8374523..stm

I reckon that the sceptical Prof. Fred Singer made two fallacious
arguments, Prof. Bob Watson, the head of IPCC sacked by GWB at the
instigation of ESSO, made four!

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Alastair, and now a typo on the Himalyan snow data - only a matter of
300 years. People are already getting confused and fed up over this
Copenhagen 'discussion;'-note how it has been degraded by the beeb.
It used to be a 'climate summit'. Also Met Office staff have already
applied their considerable skills to the problem of data analysis, if
the universites want a go then fair enough then issue the data if they
can. Heaven help us though when the media-lead public have a go.
This whole thing is now so messy that there must be a funny side to
it!
Cheers Paul B.