First Cab

Ok, this is rather trivial, as it's only off Bolt's blog. But it's a good example of the bait-and-switch:

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/harrison_fraud/

Bolt disapprovingly quotes Ford:

Harrison Ford will do something as spectacularly useless as get his chest waxed to save the planet from global warming, but won’t give up something that might actually make more of a difference:

"Learning to fly was a work of art. I’m so passionate about flying I often fly up the coast for a cheeseburger."

This doesn't make sense: if Bolt sees Ford's penchant for flying as a bad thing, this implies that Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is happening. But, according to Bolt, it isn't - so how could ceasing to fly make a difference?

This is a time-honoured Climate Creationist* tactic: claiming that a. AGW doesn't exist and b. Greenies aren't doing enough to prevent it. (What's that old saying about the simultaneous possession and consumption of cake?)

Although Bolt's right about Ford being a hypocrite, it pales in comparison to the hypocrisy of the Boltian Switcheroo.

Plenty more where that came from. (Although I'll stick to articles rather than blogs from now on, as the articles are the ones where the real 'thought' seems to occur).

* To prevent the bleatings about the term 'denier', I'm going to be calling the head-in-the-sand brigade 'Climate Creationists', after James Randerson of The Guardian's suggestion.