By Paul Homewood
The shameless BBC has finally given up all pretence of objectivity where climate change is concerned, promising a weekly dose of propaganda, as they are worried the public is not giving it the attention they think it deserves.
From the BBC blog:
If Europe’s ports are underwater, Brexit may seem less important’: we’re expanding climate change coverage
Jo Floto
Editor, The World Tonight, Newshour
From 3 October The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4 and Newshour on BBC World Service will be covering climate change every week.
The BBC’s been reporting for a long time that climate change is not some distant issue whose effects that will only be felt by our grandchildren.
Temperature rises are affecting crops, changing the rainforests, and putting massive amounts of extra energy into the world’s weather systems. Rising temperatures are pushing malaria into parts of Africa that have never had the disease.
The increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has made the oceans more acidic, so much so that we can actually observe the shells of tiny snails being dissolved by the water, threatening the entire marine food chain.
While the BBC has been consistently covering all of this, and investing heavily in specialist correspondents, climate change doesn’t always get the attention it deserves.
One reason for this is the way daily news programmes tend to work. We’re very good at covering the events of the day. The problem, which all editors and news organisations face, is that some of the most important things happening in the world aren’t always events.
They’re often a process, a trend, a gradual change. They don’t always compete well against daily news events that feel more urgent – explosions, elections, Presidential tweets.
So to make sure climate change doesn’t get crowded out, we’re committing ourselves and our programmes to covering it at least once week.
However, we’re not intending to give you a weekly update on Doomsday.
Mitigating climate change, and adapting to the consequences of what we’ve already done to the atmosphere, is driving huge changes in technology, business, and increasingly, politics.
Our first edition will come from Norway, a country that’s grown rich on fossil fuels, but now hoping to become Europe’s renewable energy “battery.”
We’ve also signed up some climate change diarists from around the world: people on the front line of a changing planet who will keep us posted on what they see around them, from the polar ice caps, to the Amazon, to the Pacific islands, via the Scottish Highlands.
Rest assured – we’ll still cover the daily news. It’s just that if climate change leaves Europe’s ports underwater, Brexit may seem a bit less important.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/653495fc-7cbb-474c-b51f-bb0ba19b3905
The whole tone of the statement gives away the sloppy, lazy and uninformed bias with which the BBC treats climate issues. Just take this single paragraph, which contains four falsehoods:
Temperature rises are affecting crops, changing the rainforests, and putting massive amounts of extra energy into the world’s weather systems. Rising temperatures are pushing malaria into parts of Africa that have never had the disease.
No mention of the fact that crop yields have been rising rapidly for decades. Or that all of this supposed “extra energy” has had no discernible effect on storms or any other type of weather. Or that, far from wiping out rainforests, extra CO2 has greened the planet. Or that the claims about malaria have been debunked by disease experts.
I doubt whether the new weekly slot will actually involve scientists in any of these areas, who might dare to challenge the BBC’s religious approach to the subject.
As for these “people on the front line of a changing planet”, the idea that climate is changing so fast as to be observed on a weekly basis is patently absurd. Much like the whole idea of the BBC’s weekly climate slot is.
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