I’ve previously posted this about how senior BBC personnel such as Peter Thomson, environment editor of The World, influence and peddle the ‘climate change’ alarmist mantra. Today I am focusing on a completely different kind of BBC figure who is working at an international level to force the world to adopt climate change measures. Step forward Michael Hastings, who boasts the title Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick in the County of Lancashire after he was ennobled by Tony Blair in 2005. Our good lord is now head of “corporate citizenship” at the multi-national accountants KPMG. But before that, he was a political lobbyist at the BBC – prepared like many of his cronies to bend the rules if they got in his way – and despite that, or perhaps because of it, he rose to become founder head of corporate social responsibility at the BBC.
In this role, I know that he was extremely influential, responsible for projects such as Comic Relief – with its strident Bob Geldof ‘climate change’ agenda – and also for making sure that the BBC met green targets by reducing its CO2 footprint. Somewhere along the way, it’s clear that he became a greenie fanatic. It is therefore highly likely that he was instrumental in pulling together, if not leading, the steps towards the BBC accepting that climate science is settled (at a seminar held in January 2006), and that the corporation must have a role in ‘educating’ the rest of the world about the need for alarmist measures.
When he was created a life peer, it was decided that being an active politician – albeit ostensibly a crossbench one – would represent a conflict of interest with his BBC job, and he took up his present role at KPMG in June 2006. However, this was partly window-dressing. He remains a board member of the BBC environment committee, the BBC World Service Trust and also a board member of Comic Relief (heavily linked to the BBC, of course), so his ties with the corporation are still strong. In his new role at KPMG – an organisation with 137,000 employees – he travels the world telling people that they must reduce carbon emissions. He is also at the top table of those who buy into the climate change agenda, to the extent that he chaired a session at Copenhagen COP15 in December.
His lordship, of course, projects all this effort as pure philanthropy, because, like all climate alarmists, he believes he’s saving the world. But delving a little deeper shows that the driving force is actually corporate greed. For KPMG also has its own Global Energy Institute, the job of which is to lobby for CO2 taxes, and to make sure its clients (and KPMG) get rich through this seemingly unstoppable gravy train that is worth billions.
Thus, Lord Hastings is working away to ensure that, on the one hand, through his continuing ties with the corporation, the BBC spreads the alarmist message as far and as loudly as possible. On the other, he is pushing fervently that, like KPMG, businesses everywhere must adopt ‘social responsibility’ targets underpinned by leftie greenie zeal.
Some of this is frustratingly circumstantial. It’s impossible to know his precise role in persuading the BBC that climate science was settled (as they fervently believe), because efforts to find out have been thwarted by the fact that the corporation hides behind Freedom of Information Act exemptions granted to journalistic organisations. What is certain, however, is that Baron Hastings is a climate change fanatic; he still has active and extremely influential ties to the BBC; when he was at the BBC, they became formal converts to the greenie ‘climate change’ cause, and his agenda was precisely in this area; he is now part of a major effort spearheaded by KPMG (an in tandem with the BBC) to persuade the world that it must pursue ‘climate change‘ alarmism and to impose CO2 taxes; and he is – palpably – highly adept in the art of persuasion. There, I rest my case.
Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick, I contend, demonstrates both that the tentacles of the ‘climate change’ monster are everywhere, and that the BBC is at the epicentre of the massive international propaganda effort to enforce a battery of new measures to restrict our freedom and squeeze more taxes out of us all in a demented effort to save the world. At the very least, the BBC gave his lordship the platform to peddle his greenie creed; and they are still working with him in its fanatical propagation.
Excellent analysis of someone who I have never heard of. Just shows that some people are carrying out their dirty business hidden from public gaze. I wonder how much money he personally is making out of this scam ?
Can someone please explain when the BBC have ever attempted to reduce its CO2 footprint? All it seems to do is grow its own whilst lecturing the rest of us to cut ours.
Ha! It always boils down to economic reasons at the end of the day… Self-serving bastard.
Great post Robin. The world needs a book on stuff like this.
These people speak a totally different language to us. What the hell are “Corporate Citizenship”, “Social Responsibility” and “urban policy”? These obscure non-entities wield far too much power.
All these terms are just as vague and meaningless as “climate change”. We are indeed dealing with the devil here in Lord Hastings, or one of his less reasonable cohorts. I bet this sod is earning a fortune from the climate scam. Clearly they are in it for the money.
Robin, there is one big aspect of Hastings you are ignoring. He is a very active evangelical christian. People I know who used to work at the BBC say he really was Mr God Squad there – something that no doubt put him out of the mainstream at the anti-Christian broadcasting corp. I once met him in a professional capacity and have to say he never once mentioned AGW (or even the weather) but he did mention Jesus Christ twice in the first two minutes. I quite liked him really. Oh…. and not that it matters particularly … but arguably helps to round out the portrait : he is Black
Surely not everyone at the BBC is a gullible as you? It seems you need reminding…
“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.”
Matthew 7:15
What was his salary at the BBC ? I bet not less than 100K
Does anyone ever listen to Scabby Logan on Radio 5? God what a leftie she really is, no attempt to hide it either. Cameron getting a right pasting over marriage (why do beeboids hate marriage so much?) and the child attackers
It is funny how Cameron makes one small gaffe over marriage tax breaks weeks ago and the lefty Beeboids won’t leave it alone while Gordon the Moron makes massive misjudgements almost on a daily basis and they get swept under the carpet.
It’s called shilling for Liebour.
Here’s something posted at Guido’s which demonstrates the BBC’s way of politicising science and advancing its favourite totalitarianism:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8472111.stm
<<There is one big question the exhibition does not address: why, after so many centuries, did the Muslim world’s scientific leadership falter? From the 16th Century onwards it was in Europe that modern science developed, and where scientific breakthroughs increasingly occurred.
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Prof Al-Hassani has his own theory, though there are others. Science flourished in the Muslim world for so long, he believes, because it was seen as expanding knowledge in the interests of society as a whole.
But in the later Middle Ages, the Muslim world came under attack from Europeans (in the Crusades) and the Mongols (who sacked Baghdad in 1258) and the Ottoman Turks overran the remnants of the Byzantine empire, setting up a formidably centralised state.
The need for defence against external enemies combined with a strong centralised government which put less value on individuals’ scientific endeavour resulted in an intellectual climate in which science simply failed to flourish, he says.>>
Utter BS. The muslim world attacked all of its neighbours and the Crusades were an attempt by Christian Europe to recover the Christian centres. On defence, when European countries went to war, science was funded on a huge scale and the resultant weaponry had a scientific basis used in the civilian field. Why don’t they just admit that whenever a muslim scientist discovered something contrary to the ‘teachings’ of the koran, that discovery was buried along with the scientist.
No Arab-Turk antagonism there, then. This is supposed to be a history lesson?
You lot are going to love this. Dopey Kate Silverton was grinning like one eyed Scottish mong when talking about Muslims and Science. The BBC of course just had to run this story bigging up the fact Muslims apparently invented everything and we dumb saps in the west did nothing until after 1600. Why does the Science Museum feel the need to act as yet another propaganda arm of the liberal white Muslimists?
So Stonehenge wasn’t a celestial calendar that showed even thousands of years before “peace be upon his Mohammad” took drugs in a cave early Europeans had a good idea of the stars and time (as one example)
Oh an those thick Viking saps hadn’t already sailed half way around the world? Oh no it was all the work of Muslims.
Funny thing is the BBC didn’t mention the one REAL contribution Muslims have made, the suicide vest.
Allan you beat me to it, great minds think alike 😀
Interesting stuff, Robin. Well said.
So now we have the trifecta of Harriban, Thomson, and Hastings, each with their fingers in both pies, each with clear conflicts of interest. I’m sure the BBC mandarins feel that this actually is what makes them qualified for their repective positions at the BBC.
I’m still amazed at how most of the MSM are ignoring the stink around the twat in charge of the IPCC. Or perhaps I shouldn’t be.
David P 16:53
Good point.
I know from personal experience and a little study of history, the contempt which Turks have for Arabs. Amusingly, some Turkish – English dictionaries, give one meaning of the word “Arab”, when used in Turkish as “nigger” in English.
Nice one for the Beeboids to think about.
Allan 13:11
BBC1 news at one had a vomit-making tailpiece about the Muslim exhibition at the science museum in London. The conclusion was that these things go in cycles, the implication being that western domination of science is coming to an end and there will be a muslim renaissance.
By the way, I think the expansion of the Ottoman Empire had more to do with financial and territorial ambitions than religion . In that sense, it was not much different from the British Empire.
Nice topic for a PHD student !
“The conclusion was that these things go in cycles, the implication being that western domination of science is coming to an end and there will be a muslim renaissance. “
Well if “climate science” is anything to go by – we have just abanonded the scientific method which was built upon for centuries and substituted it with the occult.
Archimedes must be spinning in his bath.
Thats quite a few links – finance house, BBC, government, and who knows what else. This is another Pachauri.
Needs invetigative skills to see if there are conflict of interests.
As I posted the other day Sheena Easton has crawled out from his festering hole to attack the Tories and spin lies about how “crime has fallen under Labour”
No it hasn’t you leftie knob, it’s gone UP for the most part and where it has fallen (like car crime) it’s down to the car makers not the one eyed mong or his cronies.
As many know I have a real dislike of Mark ‘Sheena’ Easton and his left wing crap. He trots out Government figures on a regular basis acting as little more than a mouthpiece for McIdiot and co.
Well sniffing around i found this rather interesting little article about my mate Sheena.
In his BBC Blog Mark Easton’s UK their Home Editor has added a post called “Map of the Week: Homelessness Crisis? What Homelessness Crisis?”. I think he should have called it “Journalism? What Journalism?” The post reports that the gloomy predictions of increased homelessness as a result of the current recession made by Shelter and Crisis have turned out to be false. Mark cites government figures which suggest that homelessness levels have actually gone down.
There is no sign that Mark has researched his story beyond reading the figures which he quotes as having been put out by the government. (sound familiar)
Take a read of the full article, it’s typical Easton
http://blog2.wflack.com/?p=115
The figures emerged in an analysis of official crime statistics. Last year, the number of domestic burglaries recorded by police in England and Wales rose for the first time in six years, from 280,694 in 2007-08 to 284,427.
The British Crime Survey provides more information on the nature of burglaries than those recorded in police crime figures.
According to the BCS, householders came face-to-face with burglars in 20 per cent of domestic burglaries last year. That translates one every ten minutes. In other cases, either no one was at home or the victim was at home but unaware they were being burgled and did not see the offender.
Of the burglaries in which the victim came face-to-face with the intruder, violence was either used or threatened in 59 per cent of crimes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245417/Burglary-victims-attacked-home-30-minutes.html
We won’t get this from Sheena Easton.