there are residents here that have just finished cleaning up their properties after the deluge a few months ago, and now they have to do it all over again. i ve been speaking to locals who ve said, look, we ve lived here most of our lives and we have seen floods, but nothing like this. nothing as frequently as this is happening and as ferociously as it s happening . so now the question is how often this is going to happen, how bad it s going to be for people. we ve heard the state premier of new south wales, dominic perrottet, saying people should stop thinking about these floods as a once in a century event. floods like this are going to happen more often and, of course, that then comes to the heart of the climate change debate here in australia. climate action is still extremely politically fraught, but we ve heard from a federal minister this morning and he said that australians should take climate change more seriously and that whoever is debating climate action isn t looking cl
for climate scepticism. are you making a conscious effort to put people on air who are outside of the regular discussions of climate change? i think that that s. .. you ve hit the nail on the head, the regular discussions . so why can t there be broader discussions about all subjects. ? well, they can, so long as they re fact based. including climate change. there is nothing wrong with actually being able to bring a broader discussion to the population around all issues. and, yes, when it comes to climate change, there is contention and that contention is out there. and we do have multiple sides of the climate change debate. but there aren t multiple sides to whether the sea is rising. the sea is simply rising. and i suppose that s the question some people have, is whether there is an adequate line on gb news between
for strategic dialogue, which is a think tank, says that you ve become a central hub for climate scepticism. are you making a conscious effort to put people on air who are outside of the regular discussions of climate change? i think that that s. .. you ve hit the nail on the head, the regular discussions . so why can t there be broader discussions about all subjects. ? well, they can, so long as they re fact based. including climate change. there is nothing wrong with actually being able to bring a broader discussion to the population around all issues. and, yes, when it comes to climate change, there is contention and that contention is out there. and we do have multiple sides of the climate change debate. but there aren t multiple sides to whether the sea is rising. the sea is simply rising. and i suppose that s the question some people have, is whether there is an adequate line on gb news between
are you making a conscious effort to put people on air who are outside of the regular discussions of climate change? i think that that s. .. you ve hit the nail on the head, the regular discussions . so why can t there be broader discussions about all subjects. ? well, they can, so long as they re fact based. including climate change. there is nothing wrong with actually being able to bring a broader discussion to the population around all issues. and, yes, when it comes to climate change, there is contention and that contention is out there. and we do have multiple sides of the climate change debate. but there aren t multiple sides to whether the sea is rising. the sea is simply rising. and i suppose that s the question some people have, is whether there is an adequate line on gb news between reasonable discussion across any issue and something that veers into polemic or pure opinion without
are you making a conscious effort to put people on air who are outside of the regular discussions of climate change? i think that that s. .. you ve hit the nail on the head, the regular discussions . so why can t there be broader discussions about all subjects. ? well, they can, so long as they re fact based. including climate change. there is nothing wrong with actually being able to bring a broader discussion to the population around all issues. and, yes, when it comes to climate change, there is contention and that contention is out there. and we do have multiple sides of the climate change debate. but there aren t multiple sides to whether the sea is rising. the sea is simply rising. and i suppose that s the question some people have, is whether there is an adequate line on gb news between reasonable discussion across any issue and something that veers