While the rest of us freeze, the BBC website is still fervently pushing global warming. The main goal continues to be to give a platform to greenie fanatics who want to increase the hatred between the developing world and the West, by cultivating the line that the West is responsible for a whole catalogue of ‘climate change’ crimes. This latest ‘opinion’ piece is by Greig(sic) Whitehead, of International Climate Challenge, another of the type of brainwashing organisations that the BBC help sustain by giving them unmoderated publicity. His piece is about Kenya, a country I love and know well, and it’s typical of the genre. Opinions, of course, are the stuff of democratic discourse, but there are limits. This greenie is a preacher of hate.
It took me two minutes on the internet dispel his preposterous lie, that ‘climate change’ is creating widespread devasatation in the country.
Climatic risks are the norm in the dry pastoral areas of East Africa and often account for widespread social and economic costs and human suffering. Nowhere is this more apparent than in northern Kenya and southern Somalia, which in 2000 were once again caught in the throes of a terrible ‘natural’ disaster.
Kenya has always suffered from droughts, not because of ‘climate change’ but cyclical weather patterns that are highly complex. On top of that, the population has risen from 5m to 35m in a little over 50 years, and the result has been widespread timber felling, affecting rainfall, the water table and waterflows from the crucial Mount Kenya region.
Extremists in countries like Kenya with a colonial legacy will use any excuse they can to attack their white ‘enemies’. So, too, will Muslim fundamentalists, of which there is a significant minority in Kenya. I sympathise deeply with the plight of Kenyans, but what is needed is genuine understanding of their problems, not the spreading of baseless propaganda. What Greig Whitehead is doing by filing such pieces is adding highly-toxic tinder to the complex political set-up in the country. Such men are dangerous, and the BBC should hang its head in shame for encouraging and spreading such naked agitprop.
From ICC’s website, the message couldn’t be clearer
“Forget Copenhagen! It’s what happens in our classrooms that matters. As we hurtle towards climate catastrophe . . . ”
BTW ICC is – according to its website – “sponsored by Barclays”. You see, it’s not just the BBC pushing the AGW bandwagon. There’s obviously money in it: our money as taxpayers together with Barclays shareholders’ money. At least Barclays shareholders can raise a stink at AGMs (cf the demos concerning Barclay’s South African connection during the previous SA regime) or sell their shares. Where does the taxpayer go? It’s not as if the “opposition” actually opposes this nonsense in Parliament (or anywhere else). The Conservatives (with objectors in single figures) voted through the Climate Change Act.
I had to laugh when I saw BBC News this morning on the snow. They had someone in the studio (possibly a BBC correspondant I can’t remember) and they asked them something like:
“These are extremely low temperatures some of the worst on record. Where does this leave global warming?”
The response was something like:
“Well this is extreme whether and we get this once in a while, this has no link to global warming”.
I found that hilarious but not surprising. What’s the chances of a similar response had we been having a mild rainy winter?
I suppose AGW Zealots can just pick and choose – clearly this is not the right type of “Global Warming”…
Spot on, the Vaseline users at the BBC try to link forest fires in Australia to climate change, the lack of snow in the Alps (not any more mind) to climate change and floods in the UK to climate change.
But clearly the BBC handed a large jar of Vaseline around yesterday at the CRU and have decided to spin this typical UK weather as a one off extreme event forgetting that LAST winter was cold and snowy as well. We used to get plenty of weather like this and it looks like the continued global cooling since 1998 is having an effect.
You can use vaseline for a lot of things, Martin. I hear it’s particularly good for chapped lips, especially in the winter. Please be more specific.
Prat from Met Office on Daily Politics saying what a great job the Met Office have done. What an utter wanker At least Brillo is giving this Labour mincer a kicking.
What a shambles the BBC is. Breaking news that ex Ministers have asked for a ballot on McMong is totally missing from the BBC’s website. Sky are all over tihs story, the BBC zzzzzz
They’ve now put a link up but if you click on it you get a 404 error with a message about BBC sport.
No eco-loon lie is big enough not to be featured by the beeb. Consider the huge Japanese ship that supposedly rammed the agile, futuristic, speedboat full of eco-nutters:
Japan whalers ‘ram’ activist boat
Yeah, the BBC correspondents are so brainwashed and one-sided they think ships with turning circles measured in miles are ramming speedboats that can turn in a second. Hilarious, pathetic, absurd and scary all in one.
Shame. I’d be cheering to see those eco-fascists disappear into the briney or “Gaia’s tears.” as they call the deep.
Have seen this discussed on several eco-sites (with fuller footage, for some reason, and the consensus seems to be – and from guys who come across as knowing their boats – that the laws of the sea were not very well, or sensibly followed.
And the culprits were not the guys in the lumbering ship.
Can’t see the BBC slant as being anything else than an ‘interpretation of events’ to enhance a narrow narrative. Perhaps the Trust might like to get involved? [joke…bad]. At least we can be assure the oversight, unlike this vessel, would be watertight… not.
Also, pedantically, it lost its bow (which could have been bad enough (I recall sleeping in a bunk in one), which makes being ‘sliced in half’ erring on hyperbole.
‘You’re gonna need a bigger boat.’
Robin,
Good post. I don’t know East Africa, but know W. Africa, Senegal, Gambia and Guinea-Bissau fairly well. The “climate problems” there used to be attributed to deforestation, scrub clearance and unregulated browsing of domestic animals. Now ,of course, it is all “climate change” !
“While the rest of us freeze, the BBC website is still fervently pushing global warming.”
You’ve confused ‘climate’ with ‘weather’ and ‘global’ with ‘here’. That’s the two classic AGW-sceptic schoolboy errors, and you’ve not only crammed them both into the first sentence, you’ve also assumed that the privileged Islington beeboids are immune to frost and snow. Full marks.