Nomad is a sceptic, but an open minded one, on the subject of global warming. In any case this blog is not about global warming. Nomad does, however, take an interest when the BBC becomes part of the story. Read this link:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230943/Climate-change-scandal-BBC-expert-sent-cover-emails-month-public.html
So to summarise the Mail's story the BBC were given a potential scoop on Climategate but never followed it up. Why not? Surely the BBC is a news organisation? Try reading this from the excellent 'Burning Our Money' blog:
http://burningourmoney.blogspot.com/2007/06/bbc-bias.html
So the BBC held a seminar with the "best scientific experts"; presumably the same people who were privately writing about finding a "trick" to "hide the decline". The seminar decided the BBC line which is pro global warming. So when a BBC journalist gets held of some embarassing e-mails he is unable to do anything with them because they do not fit the agreed approach.
So far as Nomad is aware, to date no one has been thrown in the Gulag for climate change denial . Nonetheless Stalin would be impressed at this use of 'science'. A position is agreed. The data is made to fit the party line. Any dissenters are just sidelined by the state sponsored media organisation.
Are you still happy to pay for your TV Licence?
Thursday, 26 November 2009
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Just to get the story straight, Paul Hudson is the BBC weatherman who was sent the e-mails in question. He himself has been asking sceptical questions in an article called "Whatever happened to Global Warming" on his blog. Paul claims that as he had no time to deal with the e-mails he forwarded them on to the environment correspondent. This chap apparently saw no need to do anything with a major scoop on his own patch until after the story had already broken on other forums. You may well argue that Pravda would not have run a story even if it had already appeared in the western press, but I think the comparison is still apt.
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