Robyn Williams is a clown, he admits himself.
"Although he graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in England [unspecified], Robyn admits to spending as much time acting as studying. Early in his career he made guest appearances in The Goodies, Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Dr Who and stood in for Tom Jones for four months in his TV series." (ABC website).

Its got nothing to do with CO2. Its them French bombs thats done for us. You wouldn't expect the ABC to admit that now, would you?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6290228.stm

Tuesday 10th July
'No Sun link' to climate change

A new scientific study published in the Royal Society's journal Proceedings A, concludes that changes in the Sun's output cannot be causing modern-day climate change.

I think a lot of people have missed the point of that programme.
It was not a debate about humanity's contribution to climate change.
That debate has already happened.

The point of screening that "documentary" was to allow the author an opportunity to challenge those findings and the onus was on him to provide conclusive evidence to disprove the established case.

I think his evasiveness on some points weakened his case considerably.

There is also an interesting article in Crikey.com that suggests 18 members of the audience were from the Citizens Electoral Council (followers of Lyndon Larouche - who believes the British Royal family are drug runners and killers). Some were kicked out before the show started because they were known disruptors.

These people were there to use that forum to promote their own alternative agenda and not to make a real contribution to the debate.(Eugenics? Nazis?) That's probably why they weren't taken particularly seriously by some of the panel.

Also, if you're on the extreme right, EVERYBODY seems to be a lefty.

Let's see how the (so-called) free-to-air media would have handled such a debate. Perhaps a phone-poll or two to get a scientific result?

I thought the post "Documentary" debate could have been adjudicated better. Making sure the panellists had equal time and did not interrupt each other would have made the show better.

Nor did the audience do the show any favours.

For such an important subject it would have been nice to see the ABC use the highest journalistic and editorial standards.

The day after the documentary was aired a heated discussion was going on in the boardroom at my workplace. The mood was lightened with the comment "You're doing a Durkin". To which there was uproarious laughter.

Most of you buggers appear so smart and sure of yourselves, reckon in a country town in the old days you'd be run - out of town - .

Only let us hope you don't eventually dominate this OLO. You are making me myself worse, also, feeling if I wasn't so old, I'd enjoy knocking you off one by one.

Please to remember the ancient saying From Deserts the Prophets Come.

In this crazy modern age of Mobiles, Computers et al, it is becoming all to true that persons have not got time to take time and really use their brains to analyse.

Instead most of the thought processing these days is just behind the eyes and ears, as happens in the military when one responds to immediate commands, and never got time to really think - the reason Socrates gave away his job as a top military man, a Hoplite like a Spartan, in these days winning all the awards.

As Socrates explained, he let his reasoning go down deep, or rather more deep in the skull, where he was able to find true compassion for others, which can never be found in the crazy electronic rat-race we are living in now - under the command of the ersatz reborn Corporate Culture.

Cheers, BB - W