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by leon on May 1, 2009
In an extraordinary development this week, a pioneering climate change scientist Jim Salinger has been sacked from his post in New Zealand. According to the New Zealand Herald, his great crime was talking to a TV weatherman about flooding rivers. As you do.
Salinger was part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change which, along with former United States Vice-President Al Gore, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008.
Mother Jones correctly suggests that all this amounts to censorship and keeping the public in the dark. The magazine makes the point that Salinger had been told to back off and take a lower profile. He had been instructed to get permission before talking to the media again.
It's very much a case of cutting down tall poppies and envy, something that is quite rife in New Zealand and Australian work places. Only in this case, it touches on the future of the planet.
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Dash RIPROCK III, Hooterville
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He didn't even tell people that he has a DVD for sale on the Science and Public Policy website. He has no connections to big oil or coal. He is obviously isn't doing this for the money. Lord knows that can't be said of Gore who stands to make a billion if cap and trade legislation goes through in the U.S. Monckton said during the presentation that Gore told the committee last Friday that if Monckton showed up, he wouldn't. Gore has been running from Monckton for years. As I said, it's with good reason.
Monckton would tear Gore apart in a one on one debate. Anyone who doubts Monckton's abilities should view Apocalypse? No! which is a tape of a presentation he made at Cambridge.
His presentation Tuesday is still available for free online:
http://yct.tamu.edu/
You can also view Monckton's review of the 35 errors in Gore's Sci-Fi Comedy Horror Flick:
An Inconvenient Truth on my website:
http://www.hootervillegazette.com/AlGoreTheater.html
Lord Monckton's Written works are available by following this link:
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/
As for this story. Everyone on both sides should have their say. Censorship has been taking place on both sides. It's time that it stopped!!! Bush gave James Hansen a hard time although Hansen conducted 1,400 interviews in four yeas, hard to call that cenorship. Gore fired to white house staffers for disagreeing with him. Debate is the only way to get at the truth.