Climate Scepticism and Liars

With the unbelievable news over the weekend that Nick Griffin of the BNP who spoke out against climate change last week in the European Parliament is being sent to the Copenhagen Summit as a representative of the EU - the meeting below is very timely. Fresh from claiming that the BNP are the defenders of the planet they are now the vanguard of a new movement challenging the orthodoxies of climate change. Well hardly surprising that someone who once denied the holocaust now denies climate change will lead to the extinction of thousands of species and the possible deaths of many millions of people in a world ravaged by drought and famine.

INDEX ON CENSORSHIP EVENT






FREE SPEECH & COPENHAGEN SUMMIT


"Saying the unsayable: is climate scepticism the new Holocaust denial?"







3 Dec, 6.30 - 8pm, Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road.



RSVP to: bookings@freewordonline.com







The Copenhagen Summit will debate one of the most important public issues of

the past thirty years. Many scientists and advocates predict climate change

will kill potentially hundreds of millions of people worldwide over the

coming decades. This begs the question: is there a special responsibility

for the media to exercise restraint in reporting climate change? Or are we

witnessing the rise of an unchallengeable orthodoxy?







On our panel debating "Saying the unsayable: is climate scepticism the new

Holocaust denial?" are:







George Monbiot







George Monbiot is one of the UK's leading environmental campaigners and the

author of the bestselling books The Age of Consent, A Manifesto for a New

World Order and Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain, as well as

the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No

Man's Land. He writes a weekly column for The Guardian. His website is:

www.monbiot.com







James Delingpole







James Delingpole is a libertarian conservative journalist, broadcaster and

author of Welcome To Obamaland, I've Seen Your Future And It Doesn't Work,

How To Be Right, and the Coward series of WWII adventure novels. His website

is: www.jamesdelingpole.com/







Further reading







James Delingpole, "Climategate reminds us of the liberal-left's visceral

loathing of open debate", Daily Telegraph, 24 Nov 2009







http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017760/climategate-reminds-us-of-the-liberal-lefts-visceral-loathing-of-open-debate/







George Monbiot, "The threat is from those who accept climate change, not

those who deny it", The Guardian, 21 Sep 2006.







http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/sep/21/comment.georgemonbiot