Comments on: BBC to investigate itself on climate change bias

By: David Bailey

David Bailey — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:53:26 +0000

Perhaps New Scientist and Nature could usefully hold similar inquiries!

By: Joe Keough

Joe Keough — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:55:46 +0000

Thanks, John. Actually, I’ve been stoking the stove all day. Reality demands it!

By: JOHN

JOHN — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:37:20 +0000

With global warming you don’t need a hot stove! (Even though it’s -50 in the midwest).

By: Joe Keough

Joe Keough — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:36:41 +0000

I’m not going to sit on a hot stove waiting for this to happen!

By: Bob Ashton

Bob Ashton — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:40:50 +0000

That the BBC Trust is to run this review is risible.

After all the Trust was complicit in the report “From Seesaw to Wagon Wheel-Safeguarding Impartiality in the 21st Century” (published June 2007) which said ‘There may be now a broad scientific consensus that climate change is definitely happening and that it is at least predominantly man-made… the weight of evidence no longer justifies equal space being given to the opponents of the consensus’.

This has driven BBC policy on covering climate change for the last two-and-a-half-years. For the Trust to now investigate its own policy is akin to the Gamekeeper investigating his own beaters.

In short, this review will be no better than the whitewashes which have posed as enquiries into the Iraq War!

By: Nick Mabbs

Nick Mabbs — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:26:32 +0000

Totally agree ADE – the issue is being given the ‘Humphrey Appleby’ treatment – call an internal inquiry, drag your feet over the outcome (I wonder what that will be ?) then when the result emerges it will be too late. Gerald Warner has had enough along
with James Delingpole. Neither of them will be voting for any of the big 3 parties. (Even for ‘smug Dave’ who reminds me of Gore.)
Check out these 2 blogs.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100021526/climate-science-is-an-oxymoron-time-for-zero-tolerance-of-green-agendas/

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100021577/the-greatest-threat-of-the-21st-century-not-agw-but-eco-fascism/

By: BBC To Investigate The BBC Over Climate Change Propaganda « The Tory Aardvark's Blog

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:20:37 +0000

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By: ADE

ADE — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:58:36 +0000

Problem is the enquiry will not report until 2011,by which time stupids will have signed up to pay the climate taxes.
It is looking into “bias” not “truth”.

By: Ayrdale

Ayrdale — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:34:20 +0000

Whatever the outcome of the BBC navel gazing things will never be the same for the hypocrites, hysterics and liars of the AGW movement. Their mantra used to be that the science was settled, and the Beeb could then justify any excess it chose to run with. No more…

The red/green left have staked all on this game and they’re losing big time.

By: Wesley Bruce

Wesley Bruce — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:10:56 +0000

Nice one but will it be a cover-up or not? The elections coming, labours likely to loose. The BBC will face a Conservative parliament that’s just looking for an excuse to take the left wing media (that’s almost all of the mainstream outlets) down a few notches. An obviously biased review would play into such a governments sights. Is the BBC like a deer in the headlights or a fox ready to bolt for cover?.