{"id":6466,"date":"2009-11-27T15:22:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T15:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=6466"},"modified":"2012-04-25T17:31:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:31:40","slug":"copenhagen-saying-the-unsayable-is-climate-scepticism-the-new-holocaust-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=6466","title":{"rendered":"PAST EVENT: Copenhagen: &#8220;Saying the unsayable: is climate scepticism the new Holocaust denial?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Copenhagen Summit will debate one of the most important public issues of the past thirty years. Many scientists and advocates predict climate change will kill potentially hundreds of millions of people worldwide over the coming decades. This begs the question: is there a special responsibility for the media to exercise restraint in reporting climate change? Or are we witnessing the rise of an unchallengeable orthodoxy? <\/p>\n<p><strong>3 Dec, 6.30 \u2013 8pm, Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA<br \/>\nRSVP to: bookings@freewordonline.com<br \/>\nor call Free Word on +44 (0) 20 7324 2570<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On our panel debating &#8220;Saying the unsayable: is climate scepticism the new Holocaust denial?&#8221;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/contributor\/2007\/09\/28\/george_monbiot_140x140.jpg\" alt=\"George Monbiot\" align=\"right\"\/><br \/>\n<strong>George Monbiot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George Monbiot is one of the UK\u2019s leading environmental campaigners and the author of the bestselling books The Age of Consent, A Manifesto for a New World Order and Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain, as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man&#8217;s Land. He writes a weekly column for The Guardian. His website is: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monbiot.com\">www.monbiot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/files\/2009\/06\/james_delingpole_140_small.jpg\" alt=\"James Delingpole\" align=\"right\"\/><br \/>\n<strong>James Delingpole<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James Delingpole is a libertarian conservative journalist, broadcaster and author of Welcome To Obamaland, I&#8217;ve Seen Your Future And It Doesn&#8217;t Work, How To Be Right, and the Coward series of WWII adventure novels. His website is: <a href=\"www.jamesdelingpole.com\/\">www.jamesdelingpole.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Further reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James Delingpole, \u201cClimategate reminds us of the liberal-left&#8217;s visceral loathing of open debate\u201d, Daily Telegraph, 24 Nov 2009<br \/>\nRead <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/jamesdelingpole\/100017760\/climategate-reminds-us-of-the-liberal-lefts-visceral-loathing-of-open-debate\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>George Monbiot, \u201cThe threat is from those who accept climate change, not those who deny it\u201d, The Guardian, 21 Sep 2006.<br \/>\nRead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2006\/sep\/21\/comment.georgemonbiot\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Copenhagen Summit special: &#8220;Saying the unsayable: is climate scepticism the new Holocaust denial?&#8221;, with George Monbiot and James Delingpole<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[1546,1547,1544],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6466"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6471,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions\/6471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}