Sceptic of human-caused climate disturbance theories painted as a right-wing pantomime villain by ‘how dare they’ activist type. Seeking as usual to avoid true debate, e.g. on the repeated failure of alarmist predictions, by resorting to irrelevant caricatures. The fact Sky News invited a sceptic at all suggests awareness that ignoring them has not worked, and the public is by no means all on board with media propaganda.
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SKY News has been criticised for arguing “both sides” on climate change after the Met Office said 2023 had been the second warmest year for the UK since records began in 1884, reports The National (Scotland).
In a segment on the news, presenter Kay Burley spoke to writer James Woudhuysen and activist Zoe Cohen from Just Stop Oil about the issue.
Cohen used her time on air to rip into bosses at Sky for platforming Woudhuysen, who questioned whether the statistics from the Met Office were accurate, claiming they were “very difficult to believe”.
He told Burley: “How can one be sure that what is touted as the hottest period since God knows when really is that?
“It’s very difficult to believe the statistics deduced about global temperatures so long ago are really credible.”
Woudhuysen regularly writes for right-wing publication Spiked and has appeared on GB News and TalkTV.
Cohen said in response: “Kay, what I have to say to you and your audience and the people upstairs that are in your ear, the people in power in Sky, is I cannot believe you are platforming this gentleman.
“He makes his living for working for TalkTV, GB News and writing for a publication called Spiked. All of these channels are funded by oil interests.
“What I’m seeing here is Sky, that claims to actively be one of the leaders in talking about the climate reality, is actually platforming someone who makes their living out of writing for these platforms that are fundamentally funded by climate denial and oil interests.”
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