Marcus Brigstocke on 'the climate swindle'

An extract from the Now Show, Marcus Brigstocke talking about a recent channel 4 documentary entitled 'The climite change swindle'

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[Superfreak937]

Haha all I have to do is leave a comment saying I agree with Marcus and I get four thumbs down!

All these GW deniers are really doing nothing but proving their own idiocy by being so childish.

[duck24x]

@Superfreak937 Glad to see that those with intelligence and science and proof on their side have the upper hand in England (and rest of Europe, too).

Go, Marcus!

[peterwwolf]

YES i am completely and utterly convinced climate change/AGW or whatever its called this week is 100 percent verified after watching this video !!! The same goes for the science as well as all my scepticism over the science has now been dispelled !!! Thank you Marcus as you are a genius !!! and so hilarious and RIGHT ON !!!

You end the argument with a wager which does not exactly inspire confidence in your infallible scientific data.Pathetic in other words + a waste of bandwidth.

[pjftl]

he's infuriatingly right.

[gabrielcrimson]

I agree with him but as an atheist he must see how much that sounds like pascals wager at the end lol.

[superhamzah85]

@MMGWsceptic

I eat meat but I eat food that is suitable for vegetarians. I'm a hypocrite.

[MMGWsceptic]

@pendantry "I rarely fly" ?? In the same article he lists just a few of his favourite foreign holiday destinations including: The Maldives, Mallorca, Bejing, Shanghai, Kayaking in Mexico, Varadero in Cuba, New York and skiing in Val d'Isere. And he says he planning a long holiday to India.

And this guy has the nerve to tell poor people they need to reduce their travel?

"Cherry picking"? There's a veritable orchard of hypocrisy to pick from.

[pendantry]

@MMGWsceptic Ah, you mean google search for "My Life In Travel: Marcus Brigstocke, comedian"? Hmm... cherry-picking, much?

"I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else. I take most of my holidays in northern Europe and I either drive or take the train [...] south of France. We drove from England [...] Brighton [...] Edinburgh [...] The Brecon Beacons, Black Mountains [...] bought a motorhome a few years ago; the journey has become the holiday."

MMGWsceptic: RABID DENIER

[pendantry]

@MMGWsceptic I expressed myself badly. Sorry. People like Marcus are invaluable; they help spread the word about where we are going wrong in our lives. It's true that his actions have the appearance of hypocrisy; but were he to stop, his message would also stop. In my view, he's paying far more than the going rate for his carbon consumption. It's the inequity of the true cost of the average aristocrat's private jet, or the holidaymaker's 'cheap' weekend flight abroad - these cost us the planet.

[MMGWsceptic]

@pendantry Unbelievable that you're trying to make excuses for Bridstocke here:

He stands on stage lecturing people to cut back their CO2 emissions - the next minute he jets off round the world on another unnecessary luxury fossil-fuelled holiday .

> The alternative is, what, stop doing it?

Yes - if he believes what he's preaching then he should stop taking foreign holidays. Or else stop preaching.

The only 'rampant denialism' here is yours of Bridstocke's sickening hypocrisy.

[Socaine]

@pendantry Thank you. I will actually look into that. Always interested to learn up a bit. Much appreciated. Oh, it wasn't a question I needed the answer to by the way, but thanks for giving me a lead and not bickering at me like most people online. I'll still check out the documentary!)