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What journalist doesn’t want his or her five minutes on Fox? I’ve long watched the environmentally oriented guests struggle to adapt themselves to the network’s steroid-driven style. But you can’t win on Fox by timidly citing arcane scientific data, even if it’s correct. You have to be move fast and go for the jugular. Anything less and you’re going to get swept away by the juggernauts that double as hosts. So here’s my five minutes at bat, talking about climate change on Fox Business:

Let me know if you think I got my points across with a comment below. I certainly had fun! There’s nothing like a good argument to get the adrenaline flowing.

Tags: Minute, Networking, Jim Motavalli

Jim Motavalli is the author of Forward Drive: The Race to Build Clean Cars for the Future, among other books. He has been covering the environmental side of the auto industry for more than a decade, and writes regularly on those topics for the New York Times.

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