Bishop Hill GWPF report on BBC
Dec 5, 2011 BBC Climate: Sceptics From Benny Peiser:
On Thursday, 8 December, the Global Warming Policy Foundation will release its new report The BBC and Climate Change: A Triple Betrayal, written by Christopher Booker and with a foreword by Sir Antony Jay.
The new report reveals that the BBC has not only failed in its professional duty to report fully and accurately on one of the biggest scientific and political stories of our time: it has betrayed its own principles, in three respects. The BBC has above all been guilty of abusing the trust of its audience, and of all those compelled to pay for it. On one of the most important and far-reaching issues of our time, its coverage has been so tendentious that it has given its viewers a picture not just misleading but at times even fraudulent.
Reader Comments (59)
None imo. Just appointed a True Follower who was hunky and charismatic
It transpires that Keith Briffa failed to 'prove' to Paul Rose "the reality of man made global warming" as the BBC's Jonathan Renouf demanded.
It looks like poor old Keith ended up on the cutting-room floor in the making of the BBC's "Meltdown A Global Warming Journey".
Briffa was replaced by another 'expert' Prof Joanna Haigh of Imperial College.
That's showbiz for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMuhvo_TUIo&feature=related
Unusual of GWPF to announce ahead of time. As we are about to be lectured during Frozen Planet 7 on Wednesday, the main fallacies (and there will be some as always from the Beeb on AGW), may be awaited by Booker/Jay as supporting evidence to their claim of betrayal.
I agree with BigYin,
It is difficult for me to see any other message than their poking fun at the changing dates. What I found was particularly funny was how the dates kept moving backwards. In some ways this piece may be more damaging than anything see in the MSM. In the US, more and more younger people are watching The Daily Show, Colbert Report and Onion News Network than traditional news channels.
I am finding it increasingly difficult to watch any 'factual' programmes on the Beeb.
Yesterday (5/12/11), I watched CBBC 'Newsround', a news bulletin aimed at children. It included a piece on Global Warming which was nothing more than pure propaganda. I doubt they would have got away with it on peak-time tv.
It will be available on the BBC IPlayer in a day or two. But be warned, it is frightening viewing!
The BBC has been in control of the message and the medium for ages. They have failed to deliver truthfully. Actually, they have been proven to be delibertly less than honest, to be put mildly.
The BBC is on its way to becoming irrelevant. Their only hope to hold any form of relevancy would be to come clean. It won't happen. They have subverted the message and will only lose more credibility with the cover-up. They will be discussed in future history books. They have controlled their own fate. Sad.
I will be looking forward to the report on GWPF.
hro001,
"Speaking of Team IPCC, and those who put words in the mouths of others ... I've found a few "context" pieces that shed a little more light on Hulme and his pre-CG1 "forgotten" activiism, circa 1997:
The climate consensus coordinators’ cookbook"
Fantastic stuff. Thanks. Over the last couple of years Hulme has rebranded himself as being a moderate, simply by back-pedaling much faster than any of his chums. I personally think that the bloke defines "waste of space". Have you read any of his stuff? Utter inane twaddle disguised by hugely impressive academic-type verbiage.
Nail 'em up, I say. Nail some sense in to 'em.
"I wonder what advice Renouf gave Ian Stewart in how to achieve the desired effect?"
Money talks
Perhaps Iain Stewart listened to the sound of money - anyone who finds the work of Michael Mann "fiendishly clever" can't have all his marbles
@ James Evans Dec 6, 2011 at 7:41 PM
Oh, yes, I've read, watched, heard - and commented on! - Hulme's stuff! He seems to be constantly rebranding himself! Perhaps he's aligned himself - too closely for his own good - with his concept of "climate change" as being "so plastic" ... so that he gives himself permission to ride from one jargon-laden wave to another.
And as he rides each wave, his coat of teflon (and/or perhaps his friends in high places) seems to invariably protect him against the "sharks" on The Team.