Foster's snarky editorial more ironic than intended
Fosters recently published a snarky editorial, titled “A Touch of Irony,” which noted the 9th International Conference on Climate Change was to be held in Las Vegas, “home of opulence and overused resources:”
It seems incongruous that conventioneers would gather in a place so anathema to their cause.
For climate change believers this is one of the last places in which you would expect them to gather.
But then Al Gore, patron saint of the climate change movement, lives in a mansion and flies in a jet, which contribute to global warming.
So, go figure.
The title “was apter than you intended,” replied state House Rep. Timothy Horrigan (D-Durham) in a letter to the editor:
Ironically, this conference’s title was much less apt than your editorial’s headline. The so-called “9th International Conference on Climate Change” is in fact an annual gathering of climate change deniers sponsored by the ultraconservative Heartland Institute.
In all fairness to your editorial writer, there is another annual event with the same name which is indeed a gathering of mainstream climate scientists. The “6th International Conference on Climate Change” was however held June 27-28, 2014 at the University of Iceland, in Reykjavik, Iceland — not in Las Vegas.