America's Paxo

This is one of the most unintentionally funny interviews about Climategate so far...stick with it to the end, hilarious.

And this is the best spokesperson they could come up with?

ClimateGate Swindel

Russian TV gives ClimateGate more weight than BBC

Yup, you think Plato is having a fit of the vapours - she wishes.

US Senator calls for AWG inquiry

Read the transcript here

Global warming debate goes TV mainstream

Plato knows it feels like it's been forever, but at last things are gathering pace.

What started out on the blogs, caught fire over the weekend with more pioneering or maverick journalists such as James Delingpole and Andew Bolt getting on board.  The first mainstream TV news channel to carry an interview with two serious players is below - where is the BBC?  It's not like the University of East Anglia is in Outer Mongolia FFS




Today has seen the MSM getting some balls with stuff in all the big circulation more serious press from the DT/Times/DMail to WSJ/WP/DeSp/Aus.

Plato suspects it will take another week of disclosures before UEA starts to cull the main players - even if it takes months, it's a dead cert.

I wonder if Jones et al will still be going to Copenhagen??

PS The BBC and Guardian are still pretending that this scandal is a 'move along now, nothing to see' story.

When the realignment of the world's economy is central to the argument of a scandal of this nature - and the world's biggest publicly funded broadcaster is doing a LALALALLALLA, Plato's heart sinks.

What is it with greenies and offensive ads?

Dear Honorary Platonians,

It isn't often that your Supreme Queen's flesh crawls.

She thought that PlaneStupid's 9/11 polar bears falling from the skies and squelching onto cars and pavements was a low point.



She was wrong.  WWF managed something even more warped, repelling and frankly in the worst possible taste as Cupid Stunt would say.

How any organisation let alone a charity can use 9/11 as an emotional hook to encourage organ donation is frankly creepy.

Ignoring facts

Hmm, whilst Plato has never been a big 'climate change denier' [my what a loaded phrase that is], she has been intrigued by the blogowar that has erupted since last night re the CRU and its Prf Phil Jones.

I 'distance-diagnose' from my PC that he'll be having a *crap weekend*.

For those who have no idea what I'm wibbling about - here is a graph about global warming or not as the case may be [click to enlarge the image and read text]

Hmm, see how it goes up when data suits their argument?  And doesn't when it well, doesn't?

I'll keep readers updated over the weekend.  If you are as sad as me, Google terms like: hack CRU, Hadley, Phil Jones, AGW, Mann ... you get the drift....

Gordon is glued to his seat

Gordon the Gopher

Plato LOL when she read this glorious piece in the Telegraph

"Gordon, the puppet gopher that appeared on Children's BBC programmes with Phillip Schofield Paul Smith, who is now the BBC’s Head of Editorial Standards, in Audio and music, operated the puppet between 1985 and 1987 on the children’s slot The Broom Cupboard.

Mr Smith, was promoted to the role following the infamous Russell Brand broadcast to Andrew Sachs, is paid a salary of £110,000 according to information released by the BBC under Freedom of Information laws.

The presenter Philip Schofield, who presents This Morning, made the revelation on Twitter, the microblogging site.

He wrote: “Funniest news of the afternoon, the lovely bloke that used to be Gordon The Gopher now heads up a huge BBC dept .... compliance!

He later sent a tweet saying: “heads up BBC compliance! I'm still laughing”.

A BBC source said: “He’s operating a different set of strings now”.

Do you have a cat?