James Cameron backs out of debate with climate-change skeptics

[Danno 1,228]

James Cameron backs out of debate with climate-change skeptics

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/08/23/james-cameron-backs-out-of-debate-with-climate-change-skeptics/

POSTED AT 8:58 PM ON AUGUST 23, 2010 BY ALLAHPUNDIT

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Verrry curious. The excuse, I’m sure, will be that he didn’t want to “legitimize” skeptics by sharing a stage with them. But (a) it’s odd that that didn’t occur to him when he agreed to the debate initially, promising to “call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out with those boneheads,” and (b) given the sliding support for global-warming legislation in the western world, he’s almost uniquely positioned to turn the tide. If you want to convince Joe Public that skeptics are cranks, what better way than for the tool who directed “Avatar” to thrash them at a public debate? The media’s dying to see it happen, I promise. Why, we might even get MSNBC to interrupt live coverage.

But then as the debate approached James Cameron’s side started changing the rules.

They wanted to change their team. We agreed.

They wanted to change the format to less of a debate—to “a roundtable”. We agreed.

Then they wanted to ban our cameras from the debate. We could have access to their footage. We agreed.

Bizarrely, for a brief while, the worlds most successful film maker suggested that no cameras should be allowed-that sound only should be recorded. We agreed

Then finally James Cameron, who so publicly announced that he “wanted to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out,” decided to ban the media from the shoot out…

And then, yesterday, just one day before the debate, his representatives sent an email that Mr. “shoot it out ” Cameron no longer wanted to take part. The debate was cancelled.

A real shame. Would have been fun to watch the reaction to him calling skeptics “swine” to their faces, for once. Exit question: Forgive and forget? C’mon — he has important things to do this week!

[Obama 2012 1,714]

[Danno 1,228]

Yeah that is funny... especially after he made the claim he...“wanted to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out,”

Sunlight is a great disinfectant.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Big surprise. Another climate change fraud. What happened to Al Gore?

[slim 1,533]

The sad thing is the sheeple will still belive in it until someone famous comes out and says, "this isn't true."

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

The sad thing is the sheeple will still belive in it until someone famous comes out and says, "this isn't true."

I really do not care if sheeple shovel their money off to phonies selling carbon offsets for their plane tickets. (Who the #### would buy into that?) Just keep MY money out of it. That means no taxes and dumb@ss legislation. For now that seems to be on hold. the Democrats will lose big in November. We have to watch out for sneaky lame duck stuff after the election and before we can run the rats out. After that, this climate change BS is history for a while. Hopefully long enough for people to realize it cannot be fixed by the Democrats in the US congress with a new tax.

[slim 1,533]

Hopefully long enough for people to realize it cannot be fixed by the Democrats in the US congress with a new tax.

That's where we need a celebrity to come in.

[HAL 9000 96]

Sigh. Nice try from the OT Science Authorities.

[Ban Hammer 13,656]

all i know is it's frigging freezing here in kansas in august. 55 dayum degrees outside!

[HAL 9000 96]

Weather says hi

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Sigh. Nice try from the OT Science Authorities.

[HAL 9000 96]

Next step: Illegal Alien Scientists as the target of the Al Gore fan club.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Next step: Illegal Alien Scientists as the target of the Al Gore fan club.

Makes me hungry.

[HAL 9000 96]

Sorry, I'm on this stuff right now. It kills my hunger without making me hungrier later.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Sorry, I'm on this stuff right now. It kills my hunger without making me hungrier later.

Do you drink it?