...and a hard-hitting interview it is! (Mucho thanx to Bill Blakemore for doing a bang-up job as a journalist).
(Very short diary here -- the material below speaks for itself)
Mr Blakemore just put up a 5-part video of the entire interview (along with the complete transcript) on the ABC News web-site. Here are the links:
Part 1: ‘New McCarthyism’ Described by Climate Scientist Michael Mann
Part 2: Climate Denialists Worse Than Tobacco CEOs Lying Under Oath, Says Mann
Part 3: Climate Denialists Would Be Remembered as Villains, Says Mann
Part 4: Unprecedented Crisis for Humanity — But There’s Hope
Part 5: Climate ‘Groundhog Day for Scientists and Journalists Alike
(Thanks to climatesciencewatch.org for the links)
Dr. Mann certainly doesn't pull any punches -- deniers will certainly be going ape-s**t over this, so have those bags of popcorn ready to toss into your microwaves!
Please feel free to spread these links far and wide -- blog about them, put them up on discussion boards, tweet them, FB them... do whatever you can to be sure that Google notices them (and ranks them accordingly in its search results).
Hopefully, ABC News management will "green light" portions of the above interview for broadcast on the ABC World News. According to a comment Dr. Mann put up on his FB page, that may happen in the coming weeks.
Anyway, some nice "thank you" emails to ABC News and Bill Blakemore are certainly in order (even though they may end up getting lost in the almost-certain tsunami of spittle and hate that is heading ABC's way).
(Added "Professor" to the title so that everyone knows which Michael Mann I'm referring to.)