Comments on: Counterpunch on Global Warming

By: Alex Smith

Alex Smith — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:18:06 +0000

FYI
My piece on Alexander Cockburn, Climate Denier can be found in my blog here:

http://www.ecoshock.org/2007/06/alexander-cockburn-climate-denier.html

This is actually a script for my radio production of the same name, a 23 minute piece (which includes a clip from Sonali of KPFA interview George Monbiot in late May, asking him about Cockburn)

which is here:

http://www.ecoshock.org/downloads/ecoshock/ES_Cockburn_RIP.mp3
(22 MB mp3 file)

This radio show will be broadcast twice this week on CFRO 102.7 FM in Vancouver, Canada – and then rebroadcast on other college and community radio stations.

Alex Smith
Radio Ecoshock
http://www.ecoshock.org

By: Le Rayon Vert » More Recommended Reading

Le Rayon Vert » More Recommended Reading — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:20:03 +0000

[...] The Denialism bloggers have a couple of great posts about cranks, first there is the how to guide , and then a case study – someone who will be familiar to readers of this blog, Alexander Cockburn. Also, you may have missed this link in an update to an old post, so here it is again: the Cockburn vs Monbiot debate. [...]

By: peter

peter — Fri, 25 May 2007 09:23:57 +0000

Thank you very much for that article and links. I read the Cockburn thing this morning and its been bothering me all day. Guess that clears that up.

By: Crowlie

Crowlie — Wed, 09 May 2007 07:24:33 +0000

What a brilliant post!

However, there’s one point which still confuses me. In the midst of all the discussion regarding the validity or otherwise of climate change science, what’s the point of the argument? Is someone alleging that if we “prove” that humans don’t contribute to global warming that we can continue burning, driving, cutting down and poisoning every damn thing we like forever and not suffer for it? Or that it would be ethically or morally acceptable to continue to “rape the planet for Jesus”? I’m confused.

By: James Killen

James Killen — Mon, 07 May 2007 02:59:51 +0000

So whom do I believe on a matter of climate science, James Cockburn or a bunch of climate scientists? I’m confused.

By: Sortition

Sortition — Tue, 01 May 2007 03:21:52 +0000

Cockburn seems to have turned his laudable anti-elitism into simplistic anti-itellectualism. He also seems to have forgotten that positions of intellectual or moral comfort must be assumed with exterme caution.

Cockburn’s AGW denial, by the way, is not new. See, for example: http://www.counterpunch.org/hotair.html.

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 01 May 2007 02:24:52 +0000

Ross Gittins has an article on the economics of reducing carbon emmisions here:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/half-truths-flourish-in-the-political-hothouse/2007/04/27/1177459976454.html

He often writes interesting stuff; google “Ross Gittins smh” for his columns.