Question Time last week was a car crash for the corporation, with chairman Fiona Bruce interrupting Richard Tice, the Reform Party MP, to contradict his contention that only 4% of carbon dioxide emissions are manmade. Thirty percent was the correct figure, she boldly asserted. Unfortunately, Tice was right, and she was wrong, so the Corporation’s gophers got to work and quietly edited the recording to remove her gaffe. Unfortunately someone noticed, and sceptics had a field day. A few days later, when Nick Robinson had Tice on his Political Thinking podcast. They decided, somewhat surprisingly, to take up cudgels on exactly the same subject, namely the human influence on climate.
Once again, Tice expained that human emissions were dwarfed by natural ones, and there was no attempt to probe this argument more deeply. Afterwards Robinson tweeted a clip from the interview with the comment:
"He’s denying the scientific consensus that climate change is partly man made & can be slowed or halted.”
Tice’s words clearly implied that he thought mankind affected the climate, but only marginally.
The BBC’s climate science problem
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May 31, 2025 at 01:34AM
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