Several Hit & Run commenters worried that the
Friday theme episode of The
Independents (re-airing tonight at 7 p.m. ET, 4 p.m.
PT), organized as it was around environmental challenges such as
climate change, would be one big cosmotarian sellout session. Well,
as a perusal of the
600+ comments will show, those who watched the whole hour came
away with a different impression altogether.
Starting with
famous debater Bill Nye the
Science Guy, the show was a telling, asymmetrical demonstration
of global-warming worriers literally refusing to engage in
practical follow-up questions, like how much economic growth
are you willing to trade for climate-change remediation, and
why have the forecasting models been so wrong these past 17
years? Instead, there were repeated attempts to put the
show’s co-hosts on “the other side,” which is self-evidently
composed of people beyond the reach of reason. Seriously, it was
that weird.
Anyway, here’s your open thread for a show that also included
Climate
Depot skeptic Marc Morano, Center for American Progress
Director of Climate Strategy Daniel J. Weiss, New York
Times science writer John Tierney, “skeptical
environmentalist” Bjorn
Lomborg, energy economist Jerry Taylor of Cato,
and beloved Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey.
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