FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 10/29/12
WUWT-TV to debut on November 14th to counter Al Gore’s “Dirty Weather Telethon” on November 14th and 15th starting at 8PM EST (5PM PST)
Al Gore is forming another 24 hour media event on November 14th, focusing on “dirty weather”, which you can read about here. It is yet another example of what has been called “Tabloid Climatology”.
Gore’s program is another transparent attempt to link climate and weather, and to make people fearful of common weather events that we’ve seen all throughout history. WUWT hosted a 24 hour event last year, thanks to the talents of our contributing cartoonist, Josh. You can review that here.
Last year during his “24 Hours of Climate Reality”, Mr. Gore created a video called “Climate 101” in which he purported to show a laboratory experiment showing the warming effects of CO2. Unfortunately it was discovered that Mr. Gore fabricated the experimental results using video post production techniques. You can read about it and see the evidence here:
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Due to Mr. Gore broadcasting fabricated and impossible science experiments, and then failing to correct the video even when glaringly obvious falsifications were pointed out, and partly due to WUWT’s founder Anthony Watts recent interview (and backlash) on PBS Newshour, a donor has stepped forward and offered to equip WUWT for professional Live TV over the Internet and has purchased a complete web enabled TV studio setup for use this year, seen here:
http://www.newtek.com/products/tricaster-40.html
It includes two cameras, live video over net input, and live graphics/slideshow input.
It has been tested and has succeeded a 24 hour live web broadcast burn in period. When in production, the WUWT-TV web channel will have all of the elements of a professional TV production.
During the event, WUWT-TV will be able to conduct live video interviews via Skype online video, plus will feature simultaneous PowerPoint presentations run in high quality HD to go with the live interview, while the guest narrates. These can be full screen or split screen depending on the setting.
PowerPoint presentations will be pre-loaded into the system, and to facilitate remote control, WUWT has engineered a remote ‘clicker’ that allows guest presenters to control the presentation from their end, using a web page with a forward and back button on it.
WUWT-TV has invited a number of individuals to give presentations, here is the list so far.
SCHEDULED TO APPEAR:
Andrew Montford (Author of The Hockey Stick Illusion)
Richard Lindzen (Alfred P. Sloan professor of Meteorology, MIT)
Marc Morano (Climate Depot)
John Coleman (Founder of the Weather Channel, now at KUSI-TV)
Chris Horner (Senior Fellow, Center for Energy and Environment, CEI)
Steve McIntyre (editor of ClimateAudit.org)
Dr. Ross McKitrick (University of Guelph)
John Christy (Alabama State climatologist, co author of UAH dataset)
Joe D’Aleo (WeatherBell)
Joe Bastardi (Weatherbell)
Senator Jim Inhofe
Bob Tisdale (author of Who Turned on The Heat?)
Dr. Ryan Maue (Weatherbell)
Burt Rutan, (Engineer and Aviation Pioneer)
Dr. Sebastian Lüning (co-author of Die kalte Sonne)
Harold Ambler (Author of Don’t Sell Your Coat)
Donna LaFramboise (Author of The Delinquent Teenager)
Pat Michaels (former State climatologist of Virgina, fellow of the Cato institute)
Pete Garcia (Producer of the movie The Boy Who Cried Warming)
Christopher Monckton (SPPI)
Invited but still undecided or have not returned RSVP:
Judith Curry (may appear by pre-recorded presentation she offered)
Burt Rutan (no reply)
John Kehr (no reply)
David Stockwell (no reply)
Jo Nova (undecided)
Dr. David Evans (no reply)
Zeke Hausfather, BEST (undecided)
Invited but declined:
Dr. Walt Meir, NSIDC (declined)
Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. (conflicting commitments prevent appearance)
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. (declined but offered supplemental materials)
Bill McKibben (declined due to other commitments)
There are still a few slots open. For those on the opposite side of the debate, as well as those on the skeptic side we invite you to participate, and welcome slide and narrative presentations from 15 minutes to 1 hour in length.
For questions or to request a time slot, please use the contact form if you will be able to participate. Given that Mr. Gore wants to sell the American public on ‘dirty weather’, which we know is an act of desperation, unsupported by the current state of the science (see this Nature editorial on the lack of linkage between climate and extreme weather) your voice will be particularly important.
If you cannot participate live during that time, we can arrange to pre-record the segment and play it at the appropriate time on November 14th or 15th. All that is required is a functional webcam (with headset preferred for best audio quality) A Skype account, and a short PowerPoint presentation or video clip.
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Contact WUWT here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/about-wuwt/contact-2/
No-one will be listening but a group of hardened stoics who clamour for affirmation…still, if it keeps you old boys happy, keep it up. We can send over some kendle-mint cake 😉
Yes congratulations Anthony. I like the idea of the possibility of this becoming the new science channel.
How about inviting John Theon, Jimmie Hansen’s former boss?
And for a break, how about inviting the opposition for some debates? Lewandowsky??? Peter Gleick??? Gavin Schmidt??? the SkeSci team??? (mind boggles) Or just someone to represent PBS???
I think it would be a strong point if you were seen to have invited a reasonable number of the other side to join in a reasonably-refereed debate.
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Lucy Skywalker says:
October 30, 2012 at 2:48 am
“I think it would be a strong point if you were seen to have invited a reasonable number of the other side to join in a reasonably-refereed debate. ”
Lucy – that is a good idea. Unfortunately, as The Good Bishophas found out, they don’t want to debate…
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2012/10/29/a-kind-of-debate.html
And another thing!
For some light and comic relief – do give some airtime to “Minnesotans4Globalwarming”, please!
Anthony:
I have read the comments since my earlier post in this thread. Several suggest additional speakers and I write to support that. Inputs from non-US people would help to show the breadth of support for science and reality against the AGW-scare.
Also, 24 hours is a long time. Sections of recorded inputs from around the globe would be interesting, useful and possibly influential ‘filler’.
I really think Henrik Svensmark would be an asset. He has a mild but attractive presence, speaks good English. Most of the public are not aware of his work and the related experiments at CERN, and his work makes a nice ‘fit’ with that of Nir Shaviv . Some people have suggested Nigel Calder who co-authored ‘The Chilling Stars’ with Henrik, but I think Henrik would have a much better screen presence.
While talking about solar stuff, I would like to suggest an input from Paal Brekke . He sometimes (very rarely) posts to WUWT and was an important part of the SOHO project.
As some others have said, Bob Carter and Bill Kininmonth would make a stellar double act from Oz.
Realism would be held to the fore by Robert Brown whose cogent and erudite contributions to WUWT speak for themselves.
Also, intermittent feedback from a panel of ‘ordinary people’ may be interesting and useful to viewers. If so then someone such as David M Hoffer would seem to be an appropriate person to interrogate the panel (he is not a scientists but has deep understanding of a wide range of AGW issues) although I have not met him so I cannot assess his probable screen presence.
In conclusion, I very strongly support zootcadillac in his advice to avoid partisan politics if possible. This may be difficult when the show includes the excellent Sen. Inhofe but no balancing US political view. Partisan politics may create more new opponents than new friends.
I hope these thoughts from an old socialist are helpful to your considerations, and I ask you to convey my greetings and good wishes to all participants in the event.
Richard
How about Patrick Moore. Ex Greenpeace co-founder. He would present sensible alternatives and critique to current environmental policies as advocated by the Big Green organizations.
Anthony, your vimeo video embedded in this post does NOT play in my firefox on Ubuntu 12.04 system. I have no problem playing flash videos.
REPLY: Not under my control nor my problem, sorry – Anthony
IanS says:
I do hope Peter Gleick has been invited to do a slot on ethics.
Too funny! Almost had a coffee spill.
The problem, of course, is that the smallest slot is 15 minutes. What would he do with the other 14’50”?
Hi Lucy, I don’t think they would accept. But I would like to see Bob Carter too. I attended a talk of his a few years ago, and he is very very logical.
Anthony said:
> I have trouble understanding Dr. Svalgaard …
You coulld possibly invite Dr Svalgaard to pre-record something and add some subtitles. Do you have the equipment to do that?
Raven00 says:
October 30, 2012 at 2:42 am
“No-one will be listening but a group of hardened stoics who clamour for affirmation…still, if it keeps you old boys happy, keep it up. We can send over some kendle-mint cake ;)”
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Anthony, best of luck with this! This will be no small task to pull off, but even getting to this point is a great accomplishment.
Raven00 says:
“a group of hardened stoics who clamour for affirmation”
Logic FAIL: Stoics would be indifferent to affirmation.
Anthony – another contributor you might consider is David Bellamy. David used to be an very popular TV presenter of natural history programmes on the BBC. Needless to say, he was got-rid-of by the corporation when he began questioning global warming dogma.
I think David Bellamy could make a fantastic slot taking an overview of ‘humans’ and their natural drive to develop the world around them – in the most brilliant technological ways – throughout history.
Many people still hold the presenter in warm affection.
Just a thought. Is there a plan you have put in place in case the intercast becomes the target of a cyber-attack?
This is big, big news and a big chance for all of us who are not into climate alarmism. I wish you all luck organizing this and getting the event out. I hope all participants will keep it on professional level and will not slip in any crackpottism that can be criticised later and used to dismiss the whole event.
Interviews of scientists now gone would make for an interesting segment.
Anthony,
“Dr. Sebastian Lüning (co-author of Die Kalt Sonne)” is still wrong, you missed that “Kalt” should be “kalte”
I guess I should have pointed out there were two typos, and not just one. Sorry,and good luck with the WUWT-TV, great idea!
Good luck with this Anthony.
I made my semi regular visit to the tip jar today but I screwed up and only managed to put $1 in – I have a dodgy keyboard… I’ll revisit and put enough for a few beers in later.
Cheers!
Why not invite the guy who destroyed the hockey stick…then the blade…first?
Willie Soon.
Peter S says:
October 30, 2012 at 6:07 am
I second the motion. David Bellamy – a great character and stil much loved and respected by the British public.
Not to discourage, but from my experience, television is never as interesting as the immediate give-and-take of a forum like this. Still, best of luck!
May I recommend asking Mark Steyn if he has 15min? He gives a great & funny interview if he has the time.