Marc Morano, of Climate Depot, skeptic (mentioned in the emails where Mann 'cleverly' hints that he's a moron), American. Brash, more than a little gleeful. Watson accuses him of shouting- I don't agree that he's shouting, but he is a quintessentially loud American, very clearly having the time of his life right now.
Place: BBC's Newsnight program.
Honestly, I think mostly this is more heat than light, and Morano's fast talking would probably be annoying to anybody who already disagreed with him. He seems to be trying to get as much information in as possible, and Watson seems determined to take his time and permit as little as possible to be said in the way of real information. I suspect there's a cultural divide here, too- Morano's obvious delight (his constant chuckles) sure seem to get up Dr. Watson's snoot, and it has probably been a very long time since anybody laughed when Dr. Watson spoke.
But it was kind of fun to watch- especially the last two minutes (there is a rude word near the very end- you don't want your little ones overhearing). Do not take your eyes off of Dr. Watson's face, and notice what he says just a minute or two after decrying character assasination and ad hominem attacks.
Climategate, or at least Marc Morano, seems to be seriously eating at him.
Meanwhile:
The Met Office plans to re-examine 160 years of temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on man-made global warming has been shattered by leaked e-mails.
The new analysis of the data will take three years, meaning that the Met Office will not be able to state with absolute confidence the extent of the warming trend until the end of 2012.
More at the link. AJ at the Strata-Sphere says:
You don’t invest 3 years rechecking into a supposed emergency unless the picture is really that bad. It is really that bad.
And so long as we're laughing, Michael Schlesinger of the University of Illinois AGW true believer and defender of CRU, sent an email to Andy Revkin of the New York Times, threatening him with 'the Big Cutoff' from Climate scientists, who no longer trust him. And, says Schlesinger ominously, this is the second time this week he's had to tell Andy off.
Side query- Just what had Andy done for these guys that they feel such a sense of betrayal now?
But it gets better. Schlessinger accidentally copied his hate mail to Andy and emailed it to...skeptics Chris Horner and Steven Hayward.
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