From ClimateDepot.com
A professor who is accusing global warming skeptics of engaging in tabloid-style character assassination of scientists, called an American climate skeptic “an assh*le†on the December 4, 2009 live broadcast of BBC’s Newsnight program. “What an assh*le!†declared Professor Watson at the end of the contentious debate with Climate Depot’s executive editor Marc Morano. A clearly agitated Watson had earlier shouted to Morano “will you shut up.†Video of BBC “Asshole†clip is here.
Full one-on-one BBC debate segment between Prof. Watson and Climate Depot’s Morano is in two parts here. The remark was broadcast live on BBC and prompted an on-air apology to viewers from the BBC later in the program for the offensive language. Watson (Email: a.watson@uea.ac.uk) professor at the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, which was the source of the disclosed files. Watson’s emails appear in the hacked Climategate files.
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The guy just called a spade a spade that’s all. Not nice, but understandable.
I think he is what he called the other guy, an “A……, whatever. Don’t like the word.