Copenhagen's open debate on climate change...
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Video Description: said:
Journalist Phelim McAleer asks Prof Stephen Schneider from Stanford University an inconvenient question about 'Climategate' emails.
McAleer is interrupted twice by Prof Schneider’s assistant and UN staff and then told to stop filming by a UN security guard.
Now this could be selective editing, but it's not a particularly flattering video for Prof. Schneider or the UN, at least they're maintaining an open and honest debate about one of the single largest drains of public money ever.McAleer is interrupted twice by Prof Schneider’s assistant and UN staff and then told to stop filming by a UN security guard.
Wow, thats just further confirmation of the MMGW-types and how they treat awkward questions - first the softly-softly, trying to take the microphone away, then a security goon trying to hustle them out of the room. They don't like open questions do they? We've seen people's careers damaged by having the the 'wrong view' on MMGW, deleted data, fiddled statistics, questions suppressed... Anyone would think they have something to hide...and something to gain by maintaining their current stance... 
Mannginger said:
http://video.aol.co.uk/video-detail/an-inconvienen...
I watched this yesterday and couldn't make my mind up whether to post it or not as I think most of us on here are suffering from to high blood pressure already.Video Description: said:
Journalist Phelim McAleer asks Prof Stephen Schneider from Stanford University an inconvenient question about 'Climategate' emails.
McAleer is interrupted twice by Prof Schneider’s assistant and UN staff and then told to stop filming by a UN security guard.
Now this could be selective editing, but it's not a particularly flattering video for Prof. Schneider or the UN, at least they're maintaining an open and honest debate about one of the single largest drains of public money ever.McAleer is interrupted twice by Prof Schneider’s assistant and UN staff and then told to stop filming by a UN security guard.
To be fair, the professor did answer the question in probably the way you'd expect by stating he wouldn't trust leaked emails.
The cover-up seemed to start from the assistant and the prof. did continue and say that he "would make it short". I think it's a hard question for someone to field, he was virtually being asked if he thought his colleague (and probably his long term friend) was honest. Most of us would like to think our friends are ok, so it's a tough one for him.
The security, whether they were called by the prof or his assistant, were the real heavy handed guys and yes, that was censorship in action. But it will have backfired because that video will be all over the place now. (except of course the BBC
)
It was just a pity that the hall was virtually empty, had that gone down in a crowded press conference I think it would have had much more exposure.
The cover-up seemed to start from the assistant and the prof. did continue and say that he "would make it short". I think it's a hard question for someone to field, he was virtually being asked if he thought his colleague (and probably his long term friend) was honest. Most of us would like to think our friends are ok, so it's a tough one for him.
The security, whether they were called by the prof or his assistant, were the real heavy handed guys and yes, that was censorship in action. But it will have backfired because that video will be all over the place now. (except of course the BBC
)It was just a pity that the hall was virtually empty, had that gone down in a crowded press conference I think it would have had much more exposure.
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