Tram Town

Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Category: Meeja
Breaking news? How does an article like this get published as breaking news at 5:54am? The article is a lot of hot air about global warming, Kyoto, and a classically braindead statement from the increasingly irrelevant Greenpeace.
On further investigation it turns out that this story is breaking news because it is quoting an article published this morning in The SMH. The story is a beatup. The much-quoted Senator Campbell's media release webpage has had no additions since before Christmas and with no reference to any specific press release or a particular forum in which the comments were made, we can only assume that someone at the SMH felt that there was a need to mention global warming to keep it to the fore.
This comment by our [supposedly conservative] Federal Minister for the Environment and Heritage:

"I have made a conscious decision to get the Government more onto the front foot on climate change," Senator Campbell said yesterday.
"Climate change is the pre-eminent environmental issue. We are spending billions of dollars fixing up rivers, restoring habits and wetlands, but then if you do nothing about climate change you won't have any wetlands left.
"I think we need to engage the climate sceptics, those people who are pulling the doona up over their heads, and get past the debate over whether or not climate change is real. There is a dominance of science which does say that the massive increase in greenhouse gas emissions has contributed to human-induced climate change."

I am a sceptic Mr Campbell. I spend a lot of time trolling through the evidence, the science, the UN reports, the websites, the blogs... in short, I consider myself to be quite well informed but I have yet to be convinced of a need to destroy the global economy on the back of some extremely tendentious "science". You, Senator Campbell, are a disgrace to conservative politics. You, Senator Campbell, need to be hit over the head with a hockey stick.

- posted by Semi @ 10:12 AM 0 comments