Extraordinary…not a peep out of the BBC about this story…despite a great deal of coverage by most of the other media outlets.
Here’s the BBC’s best effort……
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Sorry, there are no results for ‘Lennart Bengtsson’ in the category ‘News’.
Guess it is not only climate scientists who are engaged in a cover-up.
Nor the BBC or the Indy, at least on the day after it all broke.
Always follow the money. In this case, the bBC pension fund and it’s green obsession.
“the bBC pension fund and it’s green obsession. ” Yes, I’ve heard that before. I did a google (or as we Scientists call it “research” and found this; http://www.bbc.co.uk/mypension/aboutthescheme/topinvestments.html If you can find evidence of a “green obsession” then I’m all ears. I’m not sure Shell and BP are considered terribly “green” companies.
Back with the main thrust of Alan’s post, and indeed the Times’ story, I would humbly suggest they just don’t understand how research works. I submitted papers to the sister publication in question and it’s hard to get them in. Rejection rate is around 60% (although it varies across the titles). I did better than that, but I’m smart. But I can see how it would look to someone who wasn’t clever enough to understand how science works. Interesting this “Story” comes from the Environment editor at the Times and not the Science editor.
So you’re smart, eh?
Precis this one for us, then:
‘Dear Professor Henderson,
I have been put under such an enormous group pressure in recent days from all over the world that has become virtually unbearable to me. If this is going to continue I will be unable to conduct my normal work and will even start to worry about my health and safety. I see therefore no other way out therefore than resigning from GWPF. I had not expecting such an enormous world-wide pressure put at me from a community that I have been close to all my active life. Colleagues are withdrawing their support, other colleagues are withdrawing from joint authorship etc.
I see no limit and end to what will happen. It is a situation that reminds me about the time of McCarthy. I would never have expecting anything similar in such an original peaceful community as meteorology. Apparently it has been transformed in recent years.
Under these situation I will be unable to contribute positively to the work of GWPF and consequently therefore I believe it is the best for me to reverse my decision to join its Board at the earliest possible time.
With my best regards
Lennart Bengtsson’
http://www.thegwpf.org/lennart-bengtsson-resigns-gwpf-voices-shock-and-concern-at-the-extent-of-intolerance-within-the-climate-science-community/
Climategate and the sham that is the IPCC has shown us how ‘research works’ in so-called climate science – Stalinesque just about covers it.
Such a shame that someone would feel their options has been limited because of reaction online. Fortunately he can fall back on his research and publication record. Oh. *sad face*
A Scientist, you are “A Journalist” and I claim my £5.
‘Such a shame that someone would feel their options has been limited because of reaction online.’
Funny, I can’t see a reply to my question in there. Scared of debate, are you? So….let’s try again: your reaction to Bengtsson’s letter is what, exactly?
And a reminder for you of what this is about:
‘The climate sceptics have certainly got pretty excited over Dr Lennart Bengtsson – scarcely a household name but someone they can describe as “a leading climate scientist”. He is the former head of two prestigious European meteorological institutes, and a keen “climate modeller”, who recently defected from the international global-warming establishment to join the advisers of Lord Lawson’s Global Warming Policy Foundation. Then last week he had to resign because of “McCarthy”-style pressure from his old warmist colleagues, so intense that he feared for his health. And now he has made front-page news by revealing that a paper he co–authored, claiming that official global warming claims have been exaggerated, was rejected by a leading climate science journal because it would have given ammunition to the “climate deniers”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10837352/These-weird-Euro-elections-are-the-sunset-of-democracy.html
The bBC Pension fund and their green obsession can stand alone. Lots of warmists have such investments. They just don’t seem to see the hypocrisy in their stance. Their pronouncements are for the masses, not themselves.
“I did a google (or as we Scientists call it “research” ”
That’s the problem with many scientists today. They should get off their fat arses, stop playing about with their computers and models, do proper observations and experiments, do some thinking and come up with sensible theories. Just as they used to do!
A little late with the advice! 🙂
The Institute of Physics Journal said this in the mid-eighties. It was on the last inside page: it was when we had hard copy magazines.
They said, if I remember correctly, stop inhabiting the rooms with punch cards and card readers (it was the eighties). Stop treating Science as a tread mill !
Sit under a tree, an apple tree, and THINK, ponder and be creative.
That is what Newton did.
Google Scholar is quicker for searching than the old days, you can search from home, and I’ve always got around the pay wall. The IPCC consensus is based on a belief system, but a lot of scientists still use the scientific method.
Look up the Unified Theory of Climate and everything surrounding the Svensmark theory, and you will find that all the answers to the causes of Climate Change have already been answered, but that the reason that you are completely unaware of this, is because it is totally censored by the BBC.
Do not blame the scientists, the BBC is the problem, censorship of science, scientists and scientific debate by the BBC continues and becomes more and more noticed by an ever growing number of the general public.
It’s the BBC versus the scientific community, with the arts qualified Journalists at the BBC, pretending to be the best scientific experts, in a battle with sceptics, where the sceptics are the real scientists.
If I heard correctly, Today’s review of the papers on Friday even managed to forget the Times altogether!
And I doubt you will hear anything of this either
http://gcaptain.com/u-s-coast-guard-completes-largest-domestic-icebreaking-operation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Gcaptain+%28gCaptain.com%29
2013/14 winter produced the thickest and most expansive ice cover in thirty five years.
‘A Scientist’ comments: ‘Oh, no it didn’t!’
Reminds me of Galileo championing of heliocentricism, the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a relatively stationary Sun at the center of the Solar System. which alienating not only the Pope but also the Jesuits Galileo was tried by the Holy Office, then found “vehemently suspect of heresy”, was forced to recant, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
Perhaps if the BBC ever reported this story they might have suggested that Lennart Bengtsson also be placed under house arrest until he confesses the error of his ways and forced to recant…
A. Newsroom Tealady will doubtless be soon on hand to share that when A. Narrative has been agreed a la 28Gate, A. Black Hole can easily appear in BBC ‘news’ coverage at the drop of a whispered corridor conversation no one can recall and for which no unredacted memos can be found.
Which would be astoundingly curious in any organisation bar one.
God you are really tedious.
A Scientist my A Rse.
A Social Scientist perhaps
No, he works in Boots’ Perfume Counter and he mistyped his real name “A Scentist”.
For “Social Scientist” read “Socialist Scientist”.
Ditto, Social(ist) Media, Social(ist) Justice…need I go on ?
Well, credit where due; A. Totally Predictable Irony Void certainly delivered, entertaingly too, on cue.
Alan? My arse it’s Vance again.
Where is Lynne Truss when needed?
Anyhoo, off gardenwards again to shoot some leaves.
Why do you speak to God in this way? I’ll bet you would never address such remarks to Allah, eh?
Guest Who isn’t God and I’m surprised that you would think so being such a smart A Scientist. Or are you speaking out loud to God and just stuck it on any reply?
Have you ever done any real research? Or just another blurb filled with references merchant?
Can you imagine he was God?? Think of all the religious wars there would have been between followers with different interpretations of what he’d written!
May depend on whose God too?
Not claiming to be at such a pay grade, but in my defence I’d claim to be a lot more consistent than the various top deity dogs around, making it less easy for those seeking excuses to kick off, at least on the basis of interpretation.
Plus, as yet, my GCMG has yet to be announced.
‘God you are really tedious’.
Oops, that hit a nerve. The spirit of Nicked Emus moves amongst us in mysterious ways.
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If you want an example of bias both bBC and media then the current deluge of critic towards UKIP is a prime example.
Here is one ray of light; well worth reading. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/seanthomas/100271887/our-political-masters-are-horrified-by-ukip-trouble-is-the-voters-arent/
At the moment, just buy the Express, it may be less substantial than the Mail, and the weather articles are only worth noticing if endorsed by Weatheraction, but they had the brains to loss faith with any possibility that David Cameron would change, unlike the Daily Mail, which instead, seams to be changing into a pro-EU and pro-Immigration Newspaper.
Mat I venture to propose a book recommendation? It’s all in here – the way that AGW has been invented and engineered to fool everyone, Club of Rome, Agenda 21, Maurice Strong, IPCC, Al Gore, etc., etc. – it’s a good, concise record of the birth and continuation of this monstrous scam:
“The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science”
by Dr. Tim Ball
It should be mandatory reading for those fools in government who really have no idea – about anything.
I googled his name in google news – usually a good test of how much coverage a stroy is getting.
Firsty, most outlets aren’t covering it. The first result is this story, which does a decent job of suggesting its a pretty thin story speaheaded by Murdoch-owned outlets:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/may/16/murdoch-media-hypes-lone-climate-denial-big-oil
Next I checked this guy out on Wikipedia.
A cursory glance suggests a reasonably convincing explanation of why Environmental Research Letters didn’t publish his paper for legitimate reasons, it also includes this statement:
‘Bengtsson issued a statement that “I do not believe there is any systematic ‘cover-up’ of scientific evidence on climate change or that academics’ work is being ‘deliberately suppressed’, as the Times front page suggests.’
Oh, and there’s a few other things in the news at the moment.
All in all, that took about 1minute. So what’s the story Alan?
Bullying, and a cover up. No more than one would expect from a bunch of zealots who have lost the plot, and, er, just lost, really.
http://www.thegwpf.org/matt-ridley-the-coerced-consensus/
Heard of Climategate, ‘Leonard’?
This little episode proves nothing has changed.
‘He is the former head of two prestigious European meteorological institutes, and a keen “climate modeller”, who recently defected from the international global-warming establishment to join the advisers of Lord Lawson’s Global Warming Policy Foundation. Then last week he had to resign because of “McCarthy”-style pressure from his old warmist colleagues, so intense that he feared for his health. ‘
(From The Telegraph.)
Ignore, ignore, ignore. Keep the fingers in your ears.
Bengtsson seams to have been a prominent member of the consensus, but of no value to the science, as are all prominent members of the scam.
He is of no value to the censored so called sceptical scientists, other than making the consensus morons angry, but they still continue to censor the important scientists.
Either he is ignorant about their existence, or more likely he is saying that they do not exist, because he wants to return to the consensus, as censorship is important for the scam to continue.
If you trust the Guardian on anything to do with the Global Warming hysteria – would you care to buy Tower Bridge off me, I can let you have it really cheap
Just the latest shameful episode from the shameless BBC.
Close the damn thing down. It has no intellectual credibility left at all – it’s simply secondhand left-liberal groupthink.
I’ve never heard a single mention of UN Agenda 21 on the BBC.
I wonder why….
My experience is that the cowards don’t usually show their face, they just try to bully an editor into not publishing anything, so as I said before, scientists are realising that they have to start doing their own journalism, without a professional journalist trying to censor the work of a scientist.
It’s like the BBC is trying to produce a strange Orwellian world where arts journalists are trying to censor science journalism, so that there is nothing to read in a BBC science publication, because all the pages are blank, and then Roger Harrabin doodles some greeny thoughts on the blank pages.
No room for me on the open thread…
Albeeba breakfast this morning doing a preanalysis of the euro vote.
Long faces, doomladen words, but I sure as hell dont need Ben whatsisname to speak on behalf of Nigel Farage, on the reasons why his flurtation with the FN and Marine le Pen have has not flourished.
That cheeky twat Ben thought he’d spell out those reasonsfor us, or rather invent some smears instead!