Discussion > Anyone at the Oxford Big Energy Debate?
Myles went out of the No's side !!
His speech was interesting. IPCC is dead, no worse than that, a zombie process..
to be fair, he did say it had achived a lot, but now run it's course
only a 100 people there, 2/3 yes 1/3 no
Barry Woods
Thanks, Barry ... I think ;-) You aren't in twitter-land, here, so you could have been a little less terse or taciturn ... take your pick!
Not sure what you mean by "Myles went out of the No's side" ... According to my reading, he was supposed to be speaking in favour of the motion, along with Peiser and Rose.
Also, I think your "results" are somewhat reversed. The reported results were:
Ayes: 31 Noes: 66 (which is why the motion was defeated!)
Hilary Ostrov
oops, wrong way round ~2/3 rds no, 1/3 yes
and Myles did go out on the no's side. !
Where did you see it reported, do you have a link.
Barry Woods
Of course I have a link ... it was hidden in plain view as hyper-linked "debate" in my first post :-) But here it is, again:
http://energysoc.org/index.php?page=energy-debate
And I don't mean to be obtuse, but how does your "and Myles did go out on [or your previous "of"] the no's side" contradict - or shed additional light on - the fact that he was "advertised" as one of three who were speaking in favour of the motion?!
Anyway - considering the context and "framing" of the motion - I was more curious about what might have persuaded the voting audience to so resoundingly defeat a motion that should have been a no-brainer (unless the "overwhelming" majority of the audience was drawn from the ranks of the brain-washed greenies)!
Hilary Ostrov
Alas, it seems that the result of this May 28 debate, sponsored by the Oxford Energy Society was that ...
was defeated. And not by a narrow margin, notwithstanding the fact that Benny Peiser, David Rose and Myles Allen were on the side of the angels?!
Did anyone attend, who could give us a report on this (IMHO) unfathomable result?