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That article is rife with mistatements and logical errors.
I tried to watch the video to see if I'd get a different opinion, but it looks like it's a subscriber only deal.
Unless I missed something, I didn't see either respondent attack the interviewer.
I'm still amazed when people quote after-show polling results as if they mean anything other than the normal viewers sided with the person they watch/listen to every morning. In this case, it just indicates to me that 80% of Kernan's audience evidently haven't taken a logic course. It certainly doesn't tell us the amount of people in the audience who recognized that an interview format facilitates discussion (or at least should), not a debate. The fact that the participants didn't sit there and spew some facts from a teleprompter doesn't convince me that either isn't qualified to speak their opinions on a controversial issue. It just signifies to me that they didn't want to debate an issue that they've already been convinced of. Many trained experts and intelligent non-experts hold the same belief...so I don't see how thinking that global warming is true or something we ought to do something about indicates a lack of thought on the subject.
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