Tim Flannery interviewed by Stephen Colbert
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 06.14.06
Tim Flannery, author of the Weather Makers, was interviewed on the Colbert Report yesterday. Colbert was glad to see him, because being from Australia he is a member of that small club of Kyoto rejecting countries, the Coalition of the Willing to Burn Fossil Fuels. It is very funny. We apologise for the quality- reduce the size and it is fine.
UPDATE: thanks, commenter Allen- much better quality on the Colbert Website here
Good timing. I just got this book along with Al Gore's (what a beautiful book, full of color pictures and graphs).
Heh, it's very hard to make a point when Colbert's fooling around (even if he's saying the opposite of what he thinks and is actually agreeing with the interviewee), but hopefully it'll make more people pick up the book.
LA: I never understand why anyone actually goes on the show if they have any sense of what is going to happen to them, but it does expose people like Tim to an entirely different audience. And they know how to listen and deconstruct the dialogue and get the truthiness of it.
The interview is also on the COlbert Report site.
If this interview piques your interest, Tim Flannery was also recently interviewed by Environment & Energy TV and gets a bit more in depth than on the Colbert Report. You can watch it free at http://www.eande.tv/main/ or read the transcript at http://www.eande.tv/transcripts/?date=061906.
Flannery is typical fearmonger. He believes that talking about Co2 he knows something about climate. He doesn't.
Note: solar activity has been very strong since early 1900's. But Nasa gave info about cycle no 25:
"Cycle 24 will be strong. Cycle 25 will be weak. Both of these predictions are based on the observed behavior of the conveyor belt."
Weak cycle means less solar activity--> cooling.
And that could be pain of assess to persons like Mann, Hansen, Flannery and The Fearmonger Gang.
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editor note: "According to PMOD at the World Radiation Center there has been no increase in solar irradiance since at least 1978 when satellite observations began. This means that for the last thirty years, while the temperature has been rising fastest, the sun has shown no trend."