re: #515 lostlakehiker

One of the reasons so many people are vehemently against taking AGW seriously: they think it plays into the hands of the folk who have an answer to AGW: socialism.

Chavez curses capitalism, gets ovation, at climate summit…

AGW is real. It’s serious. But Chavez is not concerned so much about limiting it. He has his own agenda.

Capitalism is necessary for the world to make the tremendous technical changes it must make to transition to non-fossil fuels. Chavez types aren’t going to come up with breakthroughs in wind turbine design. They can’t even keep their oil fields working.

That would be disturbing if it were true however it is patently false. Hugo Chavez did not receive and ovation for those comments the end of which can be seen here at time stamp 5:30. There is some quick applause and then they cut to the audience and they can be seen seated.

Additionally, at the end of his speech there was no ovation other than applause and can be seen here. Andrew Bolt is falsely characterizing the events that took place. Two people standing up to applause and the occasional clapping does not qualify as an ovation.