C4 Mykura’s half-right contradiction on climate change
Hamish Mykura, Channel 4’s head of documentaries, has published his reply to Monbiot’s claim that Channel 4 has harmed action against climate change.
Mykura’s central tenet is that the vehemence of people such as Monbiot do more harm to the ’cause’ of global warming than a dissenting documentary that is seen by 2.7m viewers. In Mykura’s words:
It is arguable that it is not the Great Global Warming Swindle that has bred public scepticism, but the desire of some environmentalists – evidenced by the identikit complaints orchestrated against the film – to stamp out dissenting voices. This intolerance undermines confidence in the rightness of the cause.
This one’s going to get some comments alright. Maybe aiming for the 1,500 that accumulated under the New Scientist Lynas/White debate at the beginning of the year. Some early comments on the CIF site under Mykura’s article:
- Pretendingtocare: ‘2 more articles like this and we’ll have balance’
- TheLoonyfromCatford: ‘Impact? well it sure got a lot of US right-wing bloggers talking’
- Commander Keen: Hamish, you are a (quoting Durkin) ‘big daft cock’
And isn’t that fulfilling all the promises of new media? More »
