The ABC tv program Catalyst was quite special last Thursday (11-15-12). Was that a science report, or an advertorial?
By Jo Nova
Forget gloom and doom it’s “kinder” climate now - The ABC team have shifted gear. They heard they should stop being all gloom and doom (it’s climate fatigue you know) and make it simple. So they did, and everything was delivered in a cheesy canter, like an episode of Playschool. Smile everyone! Floods will increase, but we won’t hammer you with ominous music, instead we’ll show Jonica-the-presenter cleaning the floor of her very own home, joking about the pesky trickle in the living room (To paraphrase: It’s flooded again — can you believe?)…..Now our national debate is reduced to presenters, not presenting evidence, but just telling us what they reckon. ......With this kind of mindless anecdotery, it’s fair to ask: is Catalyst still a science show? If a skeptic said the weather hadn’t changed at their house for 12 years, wouldn’t Catalyst accuse them of mindless cherry picking, ignoring the big picture, and being unscientific?
Speaking of cherry picking: what about the endless droughts that were predicted, or the dams that would not ever fill again, or the four expensive desalination plants in Australia that are not being used? Doesn’t that tell us something about the state of climate science? To Read More….
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