Here ya go, from a Slashdot commenter, a dissection of today's newest tskandal in the climate-conspiracy category: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3248751&cid=41968397
"... in Jan 2006 the BBC held a meeting ... to decide BBC policy on climate change reporting .... The BBC has been in court blocking FOI attempts to get the list of the 28 attendees, but it’s just been discovered on the wayback machine ...."
Am always surprised by these calls for a "conspiracy narrative". AFAIK there is no "conspiracy" involved in this case as the seminars were put together in the open by known organizations.
What has happened is that a Big Bully in the form of a Big Corporation has lost its $200k fight against a pensioner (Newbery), and a felllow internet user (me).
It would be quite strange to find out you guys prefer to be on the Big Bully's side after all the mentions of Big Oil and the likes. But strangeness is the name of the game.
Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves. Prof. Rabett is thankful that they occasionally heed his pointing out the implications of the various enthusiasms that rattle around the department and school. Ms. Rabett is thankful that Prof. Rabett occasionally heeds her pointing out that he is nuts.
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Here ya go, from a Slashdot commenter, a dissection of today's newest tskandal in the climate-conspiracy category:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3248751&cid=41968397
"... in Jan 2006 the BBC held a meeting ... to decide BBC policy on climate change reporting
....
The BBC has been in court blocking FOI attempts to get the list of the 28 attendees, but it’s just been discovered on the wayback machine ...."
It could be postulated that without a conspiracy narrative, the wingnuts have even less than the nothing they already have.
Which could be considered the definition of wingnuttery.
Am always surprised by these calls for a "conspiracy narrative". AFAIK there is no "conspiracy" involved in this case as the seminars were put together in the open by known organizations.
What has happened is that a Big Bully in the form of a Big Corporation has lost its $200k fight against a pensioner (Newbery), and a felllow internet user (me).
It would be quite strange to find out you guys prefer to be on the Big Bully's side after all the mentions of Big Oil and the likes. But strangeness is the name of the game.
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