FROM THE AUSSIES, THE EPITOMY OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE

Climate Change Conspiracy Theorist's Report "A Pile Of Horse Shit" Writes Environment Editor

Graham Readfearn, 2013 February 28

[Note: This is from a lengthy piece filled with great links. Click through for more.]

“BEN CUBBY, the environment editor at Australia's Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, admits he has an unusual problem – ‘how does one critically analyse a pile of horse shit?’ The horse excretion in question is a report…by one of Australia's most tireless - and some might say tiresome - climate science deniers, Malcolm Roberts…the volunteer project manager for the Galileo Movement - a climate science denial organisation whose patron is popular Sydney radio shock-jock Alan Jones who himself thinks human-caused climate change is a "hoax" and "witchcraft"…

“…Roberts is a former coal miner and management consultant…[H]e regards the whole human-caused climate change thing as a conspiracy. It's a hoax devised by international bankers and socialists hell bent on installing a New World Order…Roberts wraps this whole global conspiracy theory neatly into a heading for one section: ‘The objective is global control through global socialist governance by international bankers hiding control behind environmentalism’…Some journalists, including Ben Cubby, …have had ‘lawful noticies’ demanding they ‘withdraw’ any past claims about CO2 damaging the climate…”

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[From Cubby’s Response:] “…I find myself confronting an unusual problem: how does one critically analyse a pile of horse shit? …Even by the exceedingly low standards of Australia’s climate skeptic community, your report is dire…littered with errors of all kinds: a mish-mash of muddled conjecture, impossible leaps of logic, fundamental misunderstandings of the scientific method, misread and misquoted research that has been poorly cited, internal contradictions, confused dates, spelling mistakes, and strangled grammar…”

[From Cubby’s Response:] “…I’m not advocating anything in particular, apart from fact-based reporting. Second, I have no financial interest in any industry related to emissions cuts. Nor have I worked for coal companies, as you have…As I’ve made clear in earlier replies to your many emails, I don’t mind a civil discussion about environment reporting or climate change. But until you start to ground your opinions in fact, I will continue to regard your correspondence as amusing spam.”

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