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James Cameron called out climate change skeptics to a debate and then chickens out. What a wuss.
Last March James Cameron sounded defiant.
The Avatar director was determined to expose journalists, such as myself, who thought it was important to ask questions about climate change orthodoxy and the radical “solutions” being proposed.
Cameron said was itching to debate the issue and show skeptical journalists and scientists that they were wrong.
“I want to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out with those boneheads,” he said in an interview…
And then, yesterday, just one day before the debate, his representatives sent an e-mail that Mr. “shoot it out ” Cameron no longer wanted to take part. The debate was canceled.
Some unsolicited advice for Mr. Cameron: if you are going to talk tough you best be willing to back it up. Otherwise keep your big mouth shut.
HT: BT
Brock Townsend on 31 Aug 2010 at 5:05 am #
More info.
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James Cameron Ducks Climate Change Debate
http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2010/08/james-cameron-ducks-climate-change.html
Steve Ryker on 31 Aug 2010 at 9:33 am #
Whaddya wanna bet “The Media” doesn’t/didn’t even mention it? I hope someone else checked’em out, ‘cuz I DON’T WATCH TV ANYMORE (not since 1996, when I got rid of “The Cable”), let alone “Network News” – or any news for that matter.
“News” now “comes to me” via sources like CHT, and other online Blogs and News sources carefully – but still ‘skeptically’ – selected.
Just noticed your response as writing this one, Brock – Thanks. But that is an online source. Any feedback on the (literally) Marxist Networks? SR
Matt Weber on 31 Aug 2010 at 10:40 am #
Maybe he’s too busy working on the next big cliche storm?
klem on 31 Aug 2010 at 3:05 pm #
Avatar was ok. I saw it once, it wasn’t good enough to make me see it again. I regularly see movies more than once if they’re good.
Chris Hewlett on 01 Sep 2010 at 1:42 pm #
The debate might not be mentioned but a conversion the other way is.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100831/sc_yblog_upshot/noted-anti-global-warming-scientist-reverses-course