For a truly mind-blowing analysis of how the new carbon dioxide-trading kleptocracy operates – and how it destroyed Redcar steel works with the full connivance of our own government – read this piece on EU Referendum (a distillation of Christopher Booker’s column in the Sunday Telegraph). Chances of the full sorry tale being reported by the legions of intrepid BBC staff in Copenhagen? Absolute zero. The Redcar closure story is still being reported without mention of the carbon trading dimension, despite Booker first mentioning it last week. And meanwhile, the BBC focus is on making the thuggish “protestors” in Copenhagen look like world-saving heroes.
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The control that editors have over how events get interpreted and narratives enhanced is not reflecting well on an in-theory professional, objective MSM. Especially one is forced to fund or else
For instance, the media seems awash with the Godwin’s law antics of Christopher Monckton, rather ignoring the utterings of other high profile players in the discussion that seem equally ‘ist in their approach.
Actually I find much that he says to be less than credible (my concern is less ’tis/t’isnt absolutes on the ‘A’ of GW, and more on what is proposed, what it will cost and how the efficacy of many initiatives will be weighed), and hence not an ideal counter argument for the ‘you are either totally against a changing climate or you are a saboteur’ advocacy of the likes of Mliband E.
However, having watched this, I have to concede that he at the very least seems to show a refreshing concession to the principles of free speech (his sign off seems more than fair) vs. some who seem to think you persuade by berating and telling folk that if they don’t buy their pitch well, then, it’s all their fault.
http://www.climategate.com/lord-monckton-takes-apart-a-greenpeace-activis-with-facts
My only concern is that this lady was equally pleasant, and not totally typical of many advocacy groups. Hope it is not a set up.
All extreme, dogmatic ‘sides’ seem to think, along with Tiger Woods, you can screw around and not get caught and hung out to dry.
Paul Mason on Newsnight:
Finally you get Gordon Brown’s trip to Brussels to bat for the Tobin Tax: virtually unreported in substance.
Just wanted to preserve that. I guess one solution to the new commitment to the delivery of watertight oversight is to render inconvenient aspects of the narrative invisible.
Meanwhile, I’m still pondering ex PM Blair saying that he got us into something on a pretty dodgy premise, but if that one hadn’t done the trick he’d just have gone and found another.
These days that might also have found itself unreported in substance, too.
ps: Listening to Andrew Marr ‘interview’ Boris Johnson as I write. As one less than thrilled already with the ratings addiction that guides guest selection (especially the Newsnight ‘twofer’), I found this from the host telling:
‘We didn’t invite you on to have you be nice about David Cameron’
Evidently other agendas at play then?
I wonder if the BBC will be running this story as an environmental one (basically that Cocaine is not friendly to the envifornment).
But now the police are taking the line that snorting coke destroys the rainforest.
Teaming up with Greenpeace, the police plan to spread the message that for every gram of cocaine made, four square metres of rainforest are destroyed.
I think we all know the answer to that.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1235478/Not-sniffed-Snorting-coke-destroys-rainforest-claim-police-new-campaign-drugs.html
Note the totally one sided reporting here from the BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8410414.stm
Speaking of objective reporting/editorial:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/12/bbc_news_coverage_of_copenhage.html
From post 67:
ps: Are these guys under the BBC editorial policy/guidelines?:
http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/whys-and-the-climate-change-sceptics/#comment-182327
Interesting bunch; even on twitter:
Right we’re on air. Do climate deniers deserve to be part of this discussion?
6:06 PM Dec 8th from web
Get your own house in order. Then write about it.
Yes, the BBC supports the undemocratic actions of climate protestors in Copenhagen.
And elsewhere, the BBC thinks that ringing bells for climate is wonderful!
Good article in the Mail fingering Harrabin (towards the end)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1235395/SPECIAL-INVESTIGATION-Climate-change-emails-row-deepens–Russians-admit-DID-send-them.html
Yes I keep wondering why the Daily Mail doesn’t investigate scum like Harrabin
From “Guest” link 10:45, I found this:
http://rt.com/Best_Videos/2009-12-07/climate-change-warming-moncktonthe.html
Not only does Monckton discuss “AGW” it also interesting to hear his views on “democracies”.
Marginally related I think. The post was about environmentalist kleptocrats.
BBC: Zac Goldsmith gains ‘few benefits’ from non-dom status
Environmentalist and Conservative Parliamentary candidate Zac Goldsmith said he had gained “very few benefits” from having non-domiciled tax status.
Telegraph: Zac Goldsmith admits ‘non-dom’ tax status
Zac Goldsmith, the green adviser to David Cameron, has admitted claiming non-domicile tax status, thereby avoiding paying huge amounts of tax.
Has Goldsmith’s Environmentalist status trumped his Tory status in the eyes of the BBC?
Has his non-domicile status led to a conflict of interest when advising Cameron on Green Taxes?
http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article851820.ece
The Speaker of the Danish Parliament has issued a damning criticism of the climate debate, saying politicians gullibly turn theories into facts.
As the world prepares to converge on Copenhagen for the COP15 Climate Summit, Denmark’s Speaker of Parliament has expressed serious doubts as to the way in which the climate debate has developed.
“The problem is that lots of people go around saying that the climate change we see is a result of human activity. That is a very dangerous claim,” Parliamentary Speaker and former Finance Minister Thor Pedersen (Lib) tells DR.
“Unfortunately I seem to experience that scientists say: ‘We have a theory’ – then that crosses the road to the politicians who say: ‘We know’.
No temperature rise
Thor Pedersen adds that the temperature has not risen in the past decade.
“I’m not saying that in the decade that the temperature has fallen or stagnated is enough to evaluate developments. But one should only say what one knows,” the Speaker adds.
“You should say that although we believed in our models, that the temperature would rise from 1998 to 2008, we have to admit that it has not risen. We cannot explain why it has not risen, but we believe we still have a problem. I’m just asking that people say what they actually know,” Pedersen tells DR.
Pedersen says that a major challenge is how to ensure energy and food to cater for the major population growth the world will be experiencing, and that the COP15 Climate Summit could result in an agreement that reduces the pressure on the Earth.
“We should all shake hands and agree to do everything possible to create good living conditions. That has nothing to do with the climate debate, in which we try to determine the globe’s temperature. It is common sense,” Thor Pedersen says in his interview with DR.
Its stunning to see just how generous and understanding the BBC become when the few rent a rabble street thugs get arrested for being violent, que beeboid explaing away the violence because the thugs ‘were upset about global warming’ er no no! The street thugs are rent a rabble mobs quite happy to travel around attending any demo where they can smash things up and have a great time, like a rave with the added benefit of vandalism and drugs and BBC praise and no entrance fees.
The BBC also wildly over estimated the crowd as usual with the pathetic excuse that the poor turnout was due to the cold(ha ha), bishop Tutu doing his usual rabble rousing to a thin crowd and getting prime BBC airtime with careful close crowd shots of course, musnt show the viewer how poorly attended the gig was.
So the viewer is manipulated into believing what the BBC wants them to believe but even the BBC cannot quite conceal the lack of interest by the ordinary normal majority who will have to shell out for all this madness.
All the close shots of the usual suspects rent a mob of dropout wasters and the ever faithful useful idiots cannot make up for the fact that the massive majority have simply stopped listening.
The BBC couldnt even bring itself to admit the real numbers of demonstrators even though they knew to the nearest hundred how many attended the various demos, funny that eh?