Michael Duffy

The articles discussed in the Sydney Writer's Festival panel are now available on line: Sharon Beder examines the global warming sceptics' bag of tricks. David Spratt on why the climate catastrophe leaves no room for pragmatism My article (on blogging about global warming). The posts discussed are on Michael Duffy and on Andrew Bolt.
Looks like it was Pilmer night on the ABC. First, he was on Counterpoint, ABC's anti-Science show, as you would expect from his previous appearance, everything he said, no matter how outrageous was uncritically accepted. This time he blamed the Antarctic ozone hole on CFCs coming from Erebus. (Not so) But his performance on Lateline was astonishing. Rather than let himself get pinned down into to defending the claims in his book, he continually shifted ground. When Tony Jones, questioned about his claim that temperatures had been cooling since 1998, Plimer said that this was not an…