Aussie TV Prog with Steven Schneider

[havelock]

There's a transcript and I think folks can watch it on line but I can't get my old PC to do it.

"Thanks for joining us in this special Insight. The program you are about to see was recorded in late June with internationally renowned climate scientist, Stephen Schneider. A few weeks after we recorded the show, Stephen Schneider, who had been battling a serious illness, died on a flight from Stockholm to London. He was 65. Whether you agree with Stephen Schneider's views or not, he was a passionate believer that scientists should directly engage with the public on the issue of climate change. It was in that spirit that he agreed to appear on Insight and take on a room full of climate change sceptics. This is the result."

news.sbs.com.au/insight/episode/index/id/302#transcript

I've not yet read it all but it looks very interesting.

[havelock]

Good opening statement by Steven Schneider

"Science is not about belief, science is about evidence and therefore your beliefs have to be built upon looking at the whole wide range of evidence and it is completely legitimate, as everybody said, to look over a long period of history. In fact looking back at the geological past that's the backdrop against which we calibrate our understanding but you have to be very careful not to make an analogy by saying that what happened in the past is caused by the same things that are happening now.


So the point is what we do in science is we look for underlying cause, not for the fact that before it's been warmer. In fact it's been quite a bit warmer than now before, 125,000 years ago it was degree and a half warmer than now. But we know that the Earth's orbit was twisted more towards the sun than now and if we take that and we put it in the same climate models we use to study global warming it predicts it was about that much warmer. So what we try to do is look at the wide range of evidence and that we don't use analogies, what we do is we use the understanding built on how the system works and I'll be happy to explain that more. "

[lazarus]

Schneider was such a good communicator and will be missed. I hope the video becomes available online soon.

[StuartG]

Sept 8, 2010 1:30:21 GMT 1 lazarus said:

Schneider was such a good communicator and will be missed. I hope the video becomes available online soon.

Stick at it, hit this

news.sbs.com.au/insight/episode/index/id/302#watchonline leave for a few ticks, [Oz takes time to exchange handshakes] and probably nothing will happen, wait a few more ticks, hit blue circular arrow at top [firefox] 'reload page' page should come up.

Distance between Sydney, Australia and London, England, United Kingdom 10562 miles (16997 km) (9178 nautical miles) [Wiki Ans]
'as the crow flies' plus this is by wire at no more than appx 50% of speed of light.
StuartG

[StuartG]

SBS, Special Broadcast Service, who transmit the above video also have this.....
player.sbs.com.au/programs#/programs_08/sneakpeektv/sneakpeektv/playlist/Secrets-and-Lives-Launch-Promo/

[lazarus]

Thanks Stu, I did find the trailer but could not see the whole prog.