Whad’Dad say?

See a scientist who dares to doubt that the world is frying so fast we’ll all die?

Then don’t answer his arguments with facts and reason. Smear him instead.

Claim he’s been bought off by Big Oil. Once worked for Big Coal. Spoke at a conservative think tank.

Anything to make him seem evil. To have . . . a vested interest.

The ABC’s Four Corners last month performed a perfect example of The Smear.

It ran a documentary vilifying 60 scientists and economists who signed a joint letter warning that many of the claims that man was causing the globe to heat dangerously were dubious.

Four Corners did not tackle their arguments. Instead, we watched a PR man, James Hoggan, declare: “We looked into the folks who were on that (list), and all but 19 were Americans and most of them are kind of infamous characters from the States who worked for the tobacco industry.”

In fact, only 12 were Americans and at most two had done science work on tobacco. Nor did Four Corners reveal Hoggan had a vested interest of his own — not only did he sit on the board of the extreme green David Suzuki Foundation, but he made a PR living flogging big-money schemes to “solve” global warming.

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Hmm…seems we had a moonbat around here recently that this all fits to a T.