Professor Ian Plimer of the University of Adelaide will be taking part in a debate on climate change organised by the Economics Society in UCC on Thursday 3rd December at 7.30pm in Boole 4. On the day before Prof. Plimer was on The Pat Kenny Show on RTE Radio 1 debating with John Gibbons of The Irish Times. You can listen to the full discussion by going here.
In an email exchange in UCC, Denis O’Connell wrote
John Gibbons from the Irish Times was on Pat Kenny this morning representing the climate change side in a debate with Professor Plimer. Gibbons’ performance was the worst display of bad manners and arrogance I’ve heard in a public forum in years. He attacked both Plimer and Kenny personally and was totally unable to deal with Plimer’s arguments.
Many more seem to support the view above. Unsurprisingly, Gibbons himself has a different take on the conversation which he provides here and he seems extra agitated in the article he wrote for the following day’s Irish Times. When talking about the forthcoming climate change summit in Copenhagen he writes:
Success would be a vindication of human ingenuity and adaptability – the attributes that brought us such evolutionary success. Failure would condemn us to a trajectory that leads from climate chaos to economic disaster and towards the abyss this century.