Anyone see Sir Clive bully Tony Jones and walk all over Ross Garnau?

The producer must have come close to pulling the plug. Clive was a hair’s breadth away from full psycho.

Makes a change from chirpy interviews by the pool in Hawaiian shirts, eh?

What’s the bet Clive will deck a journalist before the year’s out?

I didn't see it, but saw a few choice quotes. His usual bs about the 97% of non-man made carbon emissions etc

I have no idea why such an intelligent man like Ross Garnaut willingly subjected himself to Pauline Hanson lite.

Cliff48 wrote on Apr 4^th, 2014 at 1:34pm:


Somehow I doubt that.

Cliff48 wrote on Apr 4^th, 2014 at 1:34pm:


Thats the problem with the climate debate. The deniers have all these simple little catchy memes like Clive's 97% gem mentioned above. Its a problem because to rebutt these lies and half truths, requires going into fairly complicated and far less sexy and catchy language. It inevitably gives the illusion of the person attempting to counter the Clive Palmers that they are "way out of their depth".

Yes I just saw it, and confirms my suspicions.

The problem is that Ross Garnaut wants to have an adult debate about our responsibility for the impact we have made on the environment (which Palmer can't even deny). Palmer simply responds by demanding why we can't "solve" the problem by screwing up the natural carbon balance even further.

Like I said before - kindergarten memes vs adult discussion.

Garnaut was a dribbling bed wetting mess. Tony Jones got told to stfu and rightly so, Garnaut dribbled non stop, barely interrupted, Jones butted into Clive non stop trying to spring his pathetic warmist gotcha nonsense.

Garnaut had an bad case of the hates for Clive and his nickel plant. Funny as f6ck.

Aussie wrote on Apr 4^th, 2014 at 2:58pm:

And mind you, Garnaut did answer Clive - 97 of carbon emissions by nature is in equilibrium. It's the 3% that's created the problem. And it's the 3% that we know how to deal with. How the hell does one go about removing carbon from nature?

Seriously, I thought we had reached the highest level of dumb when Tony re-introduced Knights and Dames. But it seems we just keep going for new heights. How are these idiots in charge of this country?

Perhaps if Clive wanted to talk about carbon sequestration, he can give us answers on how we are going to find all the necessary storage to do that. Or we can of course reduce the level of carbon emissions we cause.

Aussie wrote on Apr 4^th, 2014 at 4:39pm:

because it's the 3% that's tipped the equilibrium.  And he wants to see solutions that deal with removing 3% of nature's carbon emissions to mitigate that, as opposed to having industry pay. Aussie, who pays the fart tax in New Zealand for the sheep?  The sheep don't pay it. It's an industry tax.  Same as the carbon tax.  And it's a tax that isn't even in relation to carbon.

And if Clive wants to mitigate climate change by sequestration then he's going to need to explain to us how much it's going to cost to capture and store 3% of carbon emissions each year.

Or... we as humans can reduce our emissions. Which, I think, is reasonably speaking going to be a hell of a lot cheaper.

I think Clive doesn't quite realise that when we talk about emissions, just because emissions come from a sheep doesn't mean that it's nature. The very fact we have seen an increase in domestic animals is beacuse of industry. Just like deforestation. All of this, is part of the 3% increase.  The carbon tax is simply aimed at the heaviest emitters in Australia.

In any case, that performance by Clive just goes to show that one doesn't need brains to make money.