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July 20, 2014
Practicing Unsupported Climate Alarmism in Portland
According to the Portland Business Journal, Hank Paulson was in Portland, Oregon on Friday practicing some climate alarmism. The PBJ did an interview with Paulson, and the questions were all softballs.
The obvious and most important question was never asked of Paulson, and almost always never is when interviewing the alarmists: what indirect or direct financial benefits have you obtained, are you currently obtaining, or will you potentially obtain from any of your public statements regarding climate change? Any interviewer who fails to ask this question – and print the full, unedited reply – is not conducting adequate due diligence as a journalist with respect to full disclosure by the interviewee. And there has been a near complete journalism fail on climate change reporting for decades.
It is interesting that Paulson is in Oregon pronouncing on global warming, because this state has seen very little of it in recent decades. The state's...(Read Full Post)