Anthony gets 'disinvited'
From Anthony Watts over at
Watts Up With That:
The season of disinvitation continues: Chico State University can�t handle a slideshow
I wrote back on September 28th about how Dr. Roger Pielke Senior and Dr. Bob Carter had been invited to present their views on climate science, then after the organizers found out what might be discussed, redacted the invitations to these scientists.
We also recently saw another example of how a �great debate� on climate had been staged by a Hollywood heavyweight, director James Cameron, who backed out of a debate with Climate Depot�s Marc Morano at the last minute, after Morano was already in the air and en-route to the debate. He�s now been dubbed �Titanic chicken of the sea� for saying things like James Cameron boldly slammed global warming skeptics as �swine� on the day he was supposed to be debating them. �I think they�re swine� Also see: Director James Cameron Unleashed: Calls for gun fight with global warming skeptics: �I want to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out with those boneheads� then not having the guts to actually follow through with a debate that he set up in the first place. All bark, no bite.
After all that�. guess what?
I was invited by Chico State University to the Great Debate Oct 28th in the City council Chambers on the topic of the Proposition 23, delay of California Prop32, the �global warming law�. I accepted with a caveat, but due to that caveat I�ve now joined the club of the �disinvited�. My crime? Wanting to show some slides to go along with my oral presentation.
Anthony then quotes the entire email exchange. Anthony has an 85% hearing loss so an open raucous session would not allow him to participate fully whereas a very well structured debate would be fine. He wanted to establish his thoughts with a short slide show.
Looks like they just wanted to do some version of The View and shout him down and call it a successful "debate" for their side.
I would love to see these people invite Lord Monckton.
And to have him accept.
Posted by DaveH at October 27, 2010 8:19 PM