Monthly Archives: September 2010

HARRABIN: MORE FUDGE

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The Global Warming Policy Foundation report into the various “inquiries” that have been held into Climategate was published yesterday, and author Andrew Montford’s very thorough analysis paints a disturbing picture of whitewash and fudge. As regular B-BBC commenter John Anderson lucidly points out in response to my previous post and on What’s Up With That?, coverage of the report by the MSM – even the Guardian – notes that Mr Montford had landed some disturbing punches on the alarmists’ conduct. Predictably, for the BBC’s Roger Harrabin, it’s a different approach. First he claims that the real issue raised by the report is a call for the resignation of the head of the IPCC; second, he gives just three short lip-service parapagraphs to the main substance of Mr Montford’s analysis, buried towards the end of the story; and thirdly, he gives far more space to blustering negative responses from a fanatical warmist MP – who repeats the mantra that the vast majority of scientists believe in global warming, so they must be right, and that those who don’t aren’t scientists – and the UEA, who of course continue to defend their entrenched position. You can rely on our Roger to distort or misrepresent everything to do with climate scepticism.

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NEW ADVANCE IN BBC ECO-CRUSADE

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As readers of Biased- BBC already know, BBC environment correspondent Richard Black has repeatedly filed reports that are rather alarmist about climate change and seem to advance what I would call a crude political agenda, linked closely with the UN’s attempts at world domination.

Mr Black is a busy boy behind the scenes, too. He recently chaired a session about that latest UN buzz-word “biodiversity” at the BBC College of Journalism, which was set up to spread best practice in the corporation’s £1bn-a year news operations and is compulsorily attended by them all.

Mr Black opens by telling the assembled throng baldly that a “staggering” fact is that in the last 40 years, the number of creatures alive on earth has fallen by one third, and that man is responsible.

I am not a zoologist (neither is Mr Black), but a few minutes’ digging on the internet made it clear to me that: a) scientists don’t have reliable, uncontested data on this topic; b) it’s not as simple as that, and projections of extinctions and decline are based on models constructed mainly by biologists who are also political activists; c) claims about biodiversity are inextricably linked with the global warming agenda; and d) some scientists believe that biodiversity is not on the decline, and that the number of extinctions in recent history are few.

In other words, Mr Black’s opening to the “briefing” to the College of Journalism was a crushingly one-sided affair, and it seems that “biodiversity” is the new front in his alarmism – see this post, too. What’s particular chilling about the episode is that it’s clear that this is an organised, systematic attempt at brainwashing, delivered under the guise of “objectivity”. What the corporation is actually involved in is nothing less than an eco-crusade, with Today editor Ceri Thomas’s membership of the Science Media Centre part of the same jigsaw.

There were other major problems with Mr Black’s session, not least of which was was the choice of speaker, but I’ll make those the subject of another post.

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THE GREAT TEACHING SCAM, COVERED UP

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Not often Ofsted comes up with anything useful but today it reveals that half a million children in England alone have been wrongly diagnosed with “special needs”. This instantly raises questions about the professionalism of some teachers and the approach of some schools. Now, this is a problem for the BBC which slavishly promotes the teaching “profession” so how to deal with it? Check out this prime-time 8.10am discussion. The BBC sets it up as if it is between someone in favour of the Ofsted view and someone against it. But, as you would expect, nothing could be further from the truth.  Jon Bangs from the NUT is introduced as if he is in favour of the report but he instantly starts wailing about how tough things are for teachers, how they need more resource and more training – unbelievable. Then, Headteacher Jo Shuter drones on about “barriers to learning” – listen to her evade Humphrys questions. Her arrogance and liberal leanings are obvious and there is NO voice to counter her.

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DRUG STABBING TIME

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Lobbying for the legalisation of narcotics such as cannabis is an essential part of the BBC narrative and so, on cue, we had one of the “UK’s leading researchers on cannabis” on Today this morning arguing for the licensed sale of the drug for “recreational purposes”. Pity this esteemed “leading researcher”  ignores stories like this.

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IS IT COS I IS BLACK?

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I see that Diane Abbot was on the BBC this morning doing a little race-hustling. Not only are the Coalition cuts going to cause misery to the poor, the least able but, gasp, they are raaaacist. It would have been nice to have someone on to counter Abbot’s mean-spirited race hustling but then this is the BBC and only one point of view is allowed.

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The BBC “Cuts” Orgasm…

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The BBC is certainly maxing out on the evil coalition “cuts” with reverential softballs being thrown to strutting and strident trade union fatcats (all on £100,000+pa) and gut wrenching tales of woe from “randomly selected” families etc.

The mood music is clear, the narrative set in stone with helpful clues to remind of the last bloodthirsty regime which gleefully crushed the poor and the weak into the dust…..”…deepest cuts since the Thatcher years”

Mark Serwotka, leader of the Civil Service penpushers, poured scorn on the need to cut the deficit on BBC1 “Breakfast” this morning. He demanded an increase in government spending and when Simon Jack wondered where the money would come from Serwotka, economic genius, said we should borrow it. Mr Jack, instead of laughing in his face and giving him a pair of clown’s shoes, feebly accepted this cretinous nonsense.

It might seem odd to the average Martian that the Beeb should be helping to feed the egos of these latter day Savonarolas when it is having to face industrial action from it’s own Luddites over downsizing but remember that the BBC, like the Papacy, is always interested in the long term. So soon, just after the first reports of children and old people starving to death because of Osborne’s cuts, expect a full blown crusade, spearheaded by Stephen Fry and assorted Dimblebys and Attenboroughs, showing how the masses are suffering cultural starvation through the freezing of the BBC Poll Tax.

cross posted at The Aged P

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PART OF THE UNION…..

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I know you’ve been talking about the topic over on the Open Thread but I couldn’t help but notice a/ Just how EASY a ride comrade Brendan Barber got on Today this morning and b/ how blatantly pro-Trade Union this page is. Just look at the headline email under the main story…

I’ve never been a member of a union but I will certainly be joining any demonstrations the TUC organises against cuts. Dorothy Stannard

All together now, “You don’t get me I’m part of the Union”..

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PAPAL INDULGENCES…

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Did you see that the BBC will use up to 400 staff to cover the Pope’s visit to the UK, more staff than it used to cover the World Cup. Given the loathing of Pope Benedict by the BBC, I’ll be surprised if none of the 400 try to make a citizen’s arrest! Also, in this age of austerity, good to see the BBC does not hold back on these occasions. Over-funded, over-staffed and out of time. Axe it.

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