Simon Doull dismisses climate change as 'rubbish' in ODI cricket commentary
Climate change is "rubbish", Simon says. Cricket commentator Simon Doull felt the heat on Tuesday, when he went all climate change denier mid-way through an ODI over he was commenting for Sky Sport. As is often the way in cricket commentaries, the Nelson weather came up and Doull came in off the long run with his "if you listen to the people who believe in that climate change rubbish, then it'll be sunny again and we'll be complaining about the heat." It might have been tongue-in-cheek, Doull is a "radio personality" after all. READ MORE: * Doug Edmeades: Why I'm a global warming sceptic * Former Black Cap Simon Doull caught out by Karaka Million hype * Ex-New Zealand cricketer Simon Doull breaks finger cheering home his winning racehorse His credentials also include right-hand batsman, right-arm medium pace bowler, but not as far as can be determined - meteorologist or better still, climate scientist. When Doull made his remarks, Nelson was basking in a clear 22degC day, with moderate breezes and 65 per cent humidity. And then the heat went up, on social media and cricket blogs at least. Climate change is a political hot potato. Simon Doull, bringing all the smart reckons to cricket commentary: "...if you listen to those people who believe that climate change rubbish, it'll be sunny again." I used to like Simon Doull but Im pretty sure he just seriously referred to those people who talk about that climate change rubbish. This man will soon be commentating games featuring Bangladesh, one of the worlds most climate-threatened countries. Simon Doull thinks climate change is rubbish. Mate your job is to commentate cricket. No one wants to hear your political views. #NZvSL Did I hear that right that Simon Doull is a climate change denier? #NZvSL If Doull was in fact being serious, his views fly in the face of world's best climate brains the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which recently laid out a new best case scenario: with "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society" we might be able to hold global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels. Climate change - now generally regarded as caused by human activity - has resulted in sea level rises, melting ice sheets, accelerating species extinction, heatwaves, ocean acidification. Climate scientists probably don't know what impact that has had on how the cricket ball moves through the air, or spins off a pitch. Simon might. * Comments are now closed.