BBC Still Using Cooling Tower Images, In Defiance Of BBC Trust Ruling

By Paul Homewood

 

As I reported , the BBC ran this report on Wednesday:

 

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Ministers should tighten the UK’s official climate change target – or face the courts, the government’s former chief scientist has said.

Prof Sir David King is supporting a legal case forcing ministers to shrink carbon emissions to zero by 2050.

He says the current government goal – an 80% emissions cut by the same date – is too weak to protect the climate.

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As we so often see, it included a picture of cooling towers, deliberately and dishonestly designed to designed to confuse water vapour with CO2.

This is of course a common trick across the media. But back in 2009, following a complaint about the use of cooling tower images, the BBC Trust upheld the complaint, finding:

 

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Given that Roger Harrabin seems to think that this ruling does not applies to him, can we take it that his output is no longer “factual programming”?

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September 29, 2017 at 06:21AM

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