Climate change isn’t really my issue, but this pathetically petty post by our friend Andrew Bolt just struck me as so absurd I couldn’t let it pass without comment. A conservative climate-skeptic who regularly contributes to Quadrant attends a Tim Flannery lecture and relates his unsurprisingly negative impressions. Andrew’s emphasis? The part he chooses to quote first? The skeptic’s rebuttal of Flannery’s points? No – his (entirely objective) opinion that “Flannery flops“:

Firstly, without being rude or discourteous, Professor Tim’s lecture would have to have been the worst presented, most head-bangingly-boring and uninformative address that this writer can remember.

Shock news: critical review received by ideological opponent! Hold the presses.

In tomorrow’s edition of the Andrew Bolt blog: the startling revelation that a conservative blogger thinks Kevin Rudd is “a dud”!