Online poll: vote for your favorite part of the Jones interview with Martin "Swindle" Durkin

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Vote now on your favorite quote from the absolutely brilliant ABC Australia Tony Jones interview of โ€œGreat Global Warming Swindleโ€ director, Martin Durkin.

I know, thereโ€™s so many to choose from. Iโ€™ve picked five, and gave them each a descriptive title. See below the poll for details.

polls What is your favorite part of the ABC Interview โ€œSwindleโ€ filmmaker Martin Durkin?
Everyone is Wrong but Durkin
Climate Scientist Donโ€™t Understand Even the Basics
Dude Whatโ€™s Up With Your Graph?
Oh, I Forgot My Graph Was 25 Years Old!
No Flaws, No Flaws, No Flaws


1. Everyone is Wrong but Durkin

Jones: โ€œSo the US government, the British government, the governments of Canada and Australia, most of the EU governments and the scientific advisors. Theyโ€™re all just wrong and in the thrawl of some kind of swindle. Is that right?

Durkin: โ€œYesโ€

2. Climate Scientist Donโ€™t Understand Even the Basics

Durkin: โ€œSome of the most basic bits of evidence that you would look to establish the truth of man-made global warming are simply not there.โ€

3. Dude, Whatโ€™s Up With Your Graph?

Jones: โ€œI have a very simple question about your use of this [temperature] graph, because itโ€™s says itโ€™s a chart of the temperature over 1,000 years right up to now. Now to me means 2007, but in fact this graph doesnโ€™t go anywhere near 2007, does it?

4. Oh, I Forgot My Graph Was 25 Years Old!

Jones: โ€œWhy didnโ€™t you just continue that graph [solar activity and temperature] on to the present day? Because there are graphs available which do that.โ€

Durkin: โ€œWell first, the graph we were using was created by Professor Friiss-Christensen from the Danish Space Agency, so..โ€

Jones: โ€œWhat year?โ€

Durkin: โ€œI canโ€™t remember of the top of my head.โ€

Jones: โ€œ25 years ago.โ€

5. No Flaws, No Flaws, No Flaws

Jones: โ€œMartin Durkin we thank you for agreeing to go under the microscope and talk about pros and cons of this documentary and flaws and try and explain them.โ€

Durkin: โ€œNo flaws, no flaws, no flaws.โ€

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Kevin is a contributor and strategic adviser to DeSmog. He runs the digital marketing agency Spake Media House. Named a โ€œGreen Heroโ€ by Rolling Stone Magazine and one of the โ€œTop 50 Tweetersโ€ on climate change and environment issues, Kevin has appeared in major news media outlets around the world for his work on digital campaigning. Kevin has been involved in the public policy arena in both the United States and Canada for more than a decade. For five years he was the managing editor of DeSmogBlog.com. In this role, Kevinโ€™s research into the โ€œclimate denial industryโ€ and the right-wing think tank networks was featured in news media articles around the world. He is most well known for his ground-breaking research into David and Charles Kochโ€™s massive financial investments in the Republican and tea party networks. Kevin is the first person to be designated a โ€œCertified Expertโ€ on the political and community organizing platform NationBuilder. Prior to DeSmog, Kevin worked in various political and government roles. He was Senior Advisor to the Minister of State for Multiculturalism and a Special Assistant to the Minister of State for Asia Pacific, Foreign Affairs for the Government of Canada. Kevin also worked in various roles in the British Columbia provincial government in the Office of the Premier and the Ministry of Health. In 2008 Kevin co-founded a groundbreaking new online election tool called Vote for Environment which was later nominated for a World Summit Award in recognition of the worldโ€™s best e-Content and innovative ICT applications. Kevin moved to Washington, DC in 2010 where he worked for two years as the Director of Online Strategy for Greenpeace USA and has since returned to his hometown of Vancouver, Canada.

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