This winter is possibly make or break for the BBC’s pro-AGW stance. If the winter is harsh it would take a remarkably brass neck and lack of ethics to continue pressing ahead, Al Gore-like regardless of facts, with its global warming propaganda.
The time would come when it would have to reconsider that and start to take seriously the likelihood that things aren’t panning out the way the climate alarmists have told us, backed up by their ‘science’ and computer models.
A relatively mild winter of course would allow them to shrug off criticism and carry on regardless telling one and all that the stalling of temperature rises is merely a blip…’natural variation’.
At present the BBC are ignoring the ongoing debates and the questions being raised by people like David Rose in the Mail:
We had the recent reports of a 60% increase in ice in the Arctic this year, ignored by the BBC….but they did rush this story out at the same time as the increases were being reported:
Esa’s Cryosat mission observes continuing Arctic winter ice decline
Can’t help thinking that was a ‘spoiler’ intended to cast doubt onto the reports of Arctic ice increasing.
The BBC can wait out the doubt and in the mean time we are paying for the doubling up of our energy industry and the commensurate fuel bill increases that come with that.
The poor being the hardest hit of course….not that the BBC seems concerned about them in these circumstances…’Bedroom’ taxes hitting the poor, yes that BBC is on the frontline…Quantitative Easing transferring wealth from the poorest to the already rich…the BBC is on the case, but fuel poverty, caused by climate change policies…not so much….guess it’s that old Leninist attitude….sacrificing the present for the future at whatever the cost.
Consider the road tax….many new cars are now very fuel efficient and have low emissions…and therefore attract no tax or very little tax….a 2.4 litre Volvo V60 doesn’t cost the earth…a mere £30 road tax a year, first year free of course.
So once again those wealthy enough to afford these new, efficient models get the benefits, the double benefit…of fuel efficiency and low road tax…whilst the poorest are stuck with their old gas guzzling smokers…and having to pay far more than the better off.
Curious that the BBC isn’t haranguing good old Ed Davey over that…or who gets the benefits of the wind turbine subsidies, or solar panels…how many ‘social houses’ have the benefit of that? Most people I know who have the most ‘tax efficient’ cars or solar panels or even a wind turbine in a field know how to work the sytem, have the money to help them take advantage of whatever is on offer and are quite happy to milk that system for their own advantage.
They are, you might say, upmarket benefit scroungers. But the BBC can’t rock the climate change boat….the planet is warming, they say, and something must be done….and we’ve all got to pay…just it seems some pay relatively vastly more than others and see little to no benefit from it…and all potentially to no effect other than to line the pockets of the already well off if AGW proves a damp, cold squib.
‘a 2.4 litre Volvo V60 doesn’t cost the earth…a mere £30 road tax a year, first year free of course. ‘
Really?
I think my 1.9 litre Volvo V40 LPG swung in around £180, so what’s that all about? I know it’s only good for about 30mpg, but what leaves the pipe is pixie tears and unicorn farts vs. a diesel.
Yes , I bet the telly tax talivans are efficient too .
It’s all to do with the CO2 emissions. It doesn’t matter what else it emits when it comes to road tax. Hence my 2 litre diesel Audi costs only £30 as its CO2 is 112.
That’ll teach me to believe the PR:
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/volvo-bi-fuel—saving-fuel-costs-and-the-environment-156276615.html
Or the media…
http://www.autogas.co.uk/index.php/news/view/CewJ3lSQfe8l73r6
‘The news unveiled by the BBC this week..
It’s a religion. It’ll take a lot more than this to make the BBC reconsider their beliefs and rethink the directives of 28-Gate.
Wicked Uncle Aaron grooms children into believing in AGW –
“I get worried that the world will end.”
“Aaron says: While there are some problems going on in the world right now, there are no signs at all that the world will end. The most dangerous thing to the world is climate change but it’s a slow process and all the nations in the world are trying to get a handle on that. Sometimes getting a sense of control over something can help you to worry about it less, so think of something you could do locally to help with climate change.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/faq/bugbears-advice-about-the-future
“A single data point can prove a theory.”
“La La La La I can’t hear you.”
So CRYOSAT, which supposedly measures ice volume rather than area, has been operational for three whole years and this, apparently, shows a ‘continuing decline in Arctic sea-ice’. They are getting desperate.
i think winter will start off very mild. This will prompt Harrabin and the rest of the moonbats at the beeb to say the pause in global warming is over and we need to act now to save humanity by paying more taxes so 3rd world cuntries (no spelling mistake) can prepare to deal with the catastrophic effects of climate change by building hotels by the sea.
the next day temps will drop to minus double figures, we’ll have a couple of feet of snow and the beeb and the met office will be left looking like idiots again
They have a line to take for every eventuality…
Mild winter? The globe is warming – proof of climate change.
Really cold winter? Extreme weather events – proof of climate change.
Heads they win, tails they win.
You know what, if hell freezes over this winter the BBC and the Greens will still say that its due to AGW. The Jahova Witnesses have predicted the end of the world several times. When it does not happen they rewrite the story. The problem is that we are not dealing with rational people. We are dealing with psychotic ideologues.
Accuweather gives a graph against the average monthly temperature, this can be set for the area in which you live, you can also go back and check the graphs for past months.
Currently the forecast for September shows below average temperatures, and also for October. Not massively below but enough to notice.
The long range forecast for the UK this Autumn (and there are several) are in the main saying average temperatures, but a wetter than average season.
Graphs notwithstanding, Accuweather is a member in good standing of the Church of Warmism. After all, Joe Bastardi – its previous in-house climate expert and outspoken AGW sceptic – was
sacrificedsacked for his refusal to recant.One day they will claim that it’s Global Cooling that they have been warning us against for all these years. And the BBC will push that lie too.
An interesting video of Nigel Farrage taking Jose Manuel Barosso to task over the EU stance on global warning…
Barosso’s response is that 99% of scientists agree that the AGW case is proven and thus they are correct to keep taxing the masses even though it would seem that the people who suffer the most from these policies are the weakest members of society.
It seems that many at the BBC don’t drive, they use public transport or taxis. Cars are things out of town working class people use, they are smelly, oily and make a mess of your designer clothing when filling them up.
‘Cars are things out of town working class people use’
Actually they are things out of town, working class people uniquely pay for, to waft BBC market rate corridor whisperers and part-time Barristas from railway station to office… when required to be there.
Or other staff… further:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2127619/BBC-spent-2million-sending-guests-London-Manchester-Salford-years.html
Will David Bellamy get an apology ?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9817181/David-Bellamy-tells-of-moment-he-was-frozen-out-of-BBC.html
From the BBC?
I always appreciate a bit of sarcasm.
Scrappydoo,
“Will David Bellamy get an apology?”
Ah, as regular as clockwork, every few months, someone will bring up “The Bellamy Argument”, closely followed by; “Why Isn’t Johnny Ball My Neurosurgeon?” written in crayon.
David Bellamy only ever presented two series on TV:
“Don’t Ask Me” (1974-1975) on ITV and “Bellamy’s Backyard Safari” on BBC in 1981. He co-hosted an episode of QED in 1986 http://youtu.be/izXxieMvDBU but that was pretty much the end of his broadcast career. Since then strangely, neither ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky, Fox News, The Disney Channel nor North Norfolk Digital have signed him up as a regular presenter.
He is sadly deluding himself if he thinks it all changed when he spoke out against wind farms ten years later.
But never mind, at least we can all rest assured that he knows what he’s talking about:
AGW is a politically motivated religion and we ain’t falling for it. Prior to the global warming scam we were being constantly warned that the next Ice age was only a few years away. If BBC and it’s staff forgo their luxuries and shameless high consumption at our expense, that would be a start. Meanwhile I’m with David Bellamy.
Expect the recent floods in Boulder Colorado to be used by the BBC to help sell the IPCC report when it’s published
later this month.
Needless to say they won’t be informing viewers the fact that the town got it’s name from the huge boulders which litter the towns riverbeds caused by the huge floods which have naturally occured there for millions of years.
A useful summary of historic colorado floods here: http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/09/14/understanding-colorado-flooding/
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