roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 11 Nov @billyblofeld @latimeralder @aDissentient This is wrong. BBC does NOT have an agreed approach to #climatechange which is why sceptics abound

Shame Harrabin once said this:

I have spent much of the last two decades of my journalistic life warning about the potential dangers of climate change

And he famously engineered the adoption of the ‘scientific consensus’ within the BBC.

And I can only assume from the tone that freerange sceptics ‘abounding’ is something not very welcome in the Harrabin brave new world.

A reminder of one of Harrabin’s Tweets from a while back…..

roger harrabin ?@RogerHarrabin  @aniolesteban Earthquakes and volcanoes also boost economic growth. The Philippines mud slide was good for builders and undertakers.

Very caring from our Roger.

And then there was this:

roger harrabin ?@RogerHarrabin
Asking if climate change caused Sandy is like asking if gravity caused an old house to collapse when it did.

So a very definite link between climate change and storms…isn’t there?

In this recent report  he claimed that:

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says the jury is out on whether the frequency of tropical cyclones will increase, but Michel Jarraud said it was expected that the impact of storms would be more intense.

The Telegraph says the IPCC said something else:

Here’s what it says in its new report: 

Current datasets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century … No robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin… In summary, confidence in large scale changes in the intensity of extreme extratropical cyclones since 1900 is low.

What’s interesting when you read their [Those who say climate change produces more extreme weather] claims is that none of them is capable of producing any credible scientific evidence that “climate change” has anything whatsoever to do with Typhoon Haiyan.  That’ll be because – as Benny Peiser notes in the Spectator – the science says no such thing.

A more recent Tweet from Roger:

roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 13 Nov @BarryJWoods @etzpcm

Look at it decadally, Barry. Year by year is weather not climate.

Which is why of course he has headlines like this:

2013 ‘one of warmest’ on record

Apparently it is a ‘wake up call’ for us….

roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 13 Nov @etzpcm There’s nothing incoherent about wake-up calls unless you are deaf. The piece was written in 30 mins on deadline. Not great but OK

Nice to see quality journalism counts at the BBC…any old rubbish as long as it’s on time.

And still peddling that theory of the oceans absorbing all that heat…which is why we have a pause in global warming…so they claim…without proof:

roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 12 Nov @conservatarist @BarryJWoods @tan123 Higher sea levels = higher storm surges, warmer ocean has more energy. Creates greater storm potential.

A theory they now use  to tell us that though hurricanes and extreme weather may not be more frequent they will have worse effects because of higher sea levels etc.

If there is no ocean warming…then that’s another theory out the window.

He also Tweeted this:

roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 11 Nov

Rising sea levels and warmer seas will create conditions for ever-stronger tropical storms.

Tom Nelson ‏@tan123 11 Nov .@RHarrabin So why aren’t tropical storms getting ever stronger?

Harrabin backtracks:

roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 12 Nov @tan123 There are many conditions for storms. But rising sea level and hotter oceans create conditions for more damaging storms.

Getting grumpy…

roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin  @BarryJWoods @conservatarist @tan123 Don’t misquote me. More heat = more energy. higher sea = higher surges,

Trouble is they weren’t misquoting him……Harrabin said ‘ever stronger tropical storms’.

Quality stuff from our campaigning friend of the earth.

Don’t misquote me…I didn’t say highly misleading twaddle.

I suppose most reasonable people would think that anything that can be done to improve the level of service given by our GP’s to the most frail members of society is on balance a good thing? Yet the BBC has been sneering all morning at the announcement by the Coalition tha 100,000 of the most frail patients in England will be identified and given a named GP to co-ordinate their care.

The move has been agreed by the British Medical Association and NHS England in talks over next year’s GP contract. Ministers had been pushing for doctors to take greater responsibility for the most vulnerable patients in society to relieve pressure on hospitals.

The BBC are suspicious of this and they have been quick to allow that politics giant with SUCH a great record on Health, Andy Burnham, a platform to whinge and bitch and never a mention of the fact that it was LABOUR that presided over the change in GP contracts that provided so much extra £££ for the GP’s in exchange for so much less CARE for us. Labour’s brass neck is perhaps predictable but the BBC’s wilful compliance with it is sickening.

Wonder if anyone else watched BBC QUESTION TIME last night? It lived up to its reputation for unending leftist bias of course and none more so than when the question came about whether the Typhoon in the Philippines that has caused such tragic loss of life was caused by …yes, global warming.

What struck me about the ensuing debate was the zealotry of those on the panel who all proclaimed that it was most likely the case that global warming (or climate change, as they subtly switch narrative when it suits them) was to blame and that it was indisputable that global warming WAS STILL HAPPENING! Poor old Nigel Lawson did his best to put forth a reasoned case to suggest that what was being proclaimed as fact by the panel was in fact at variance with reality but he was shouted down. We also had someone proclaim that banning carrier bags might help end Hurricanes and of course we have to fully embrace “renewables” and all the “free new deal” jobs they bring (none) Lawson was attacked on all fronts and the audience was also seemingly stacked with climate fantasists. You wonder how this can be when poll after poll shows the UK population increasingly sceptical of the AGW agenda. However the BBC is a key driver of the watermelon agenda and last night showed that when it comes to conducting a rational debate on the science of the matter, the BBC aren’t remotely interested. You see it is a matter of faith for these Gaia worshippers…

Channel 4 poached Paul Mason and it seems they have given him wings to take his flights of fancy to ever greater heights…we shall miss him on the BBC.

His latest thought:

Russell Brand is ……one of the key voices of his age.

Here you go, and on time for a change! Detail the bias as you see it!

Guest post by Graeme Thompson aka “hippiepooter”

How do we combat Jihad?

We recognise it for the Act of Treason that it is.  We recognise that the global counter-terrorist war we have (half) been engaged in is a war against the Jihad being waged against us.  Whether Jihad is prosecuted against us by violence or by the black propaganda of internal enemy organisations like Cageprisoners, we deal with Treason accordingly, we deal with captured enemy accordingly.

Any Muslim who says the West is waging a war against Islam is committing Treason.  Any non-Muslim who says the West is waging war against Islam is committing Treason.  It is enemy black propaganda.  At time of war, aiding and abetting the enemy should lead to immediate incarceration.  We should have military tribunals to deal with these incarcerations according to the rules of war.  We need to have our own Guantanamo’s.  Not just for our domestic jihadists, but for those on the Marxist left and the Jew haters who make common cause with Jihad.  After 12 years of being at war, it is time we got up to speed on what being at war means.

Unlike Melanie Phillips whom I hugely admire, I have a lot of time for the Prime Minister’s diplomatic hypocrisy over Islam in the wake of the Woolwich Jihad atrocity.  There are a lot of British Muslims who practice their religion through the prism of the common humanity that binds us all.  The last thing any decent human being wants to see is a violent backlash against innocent British Muslims at the hands of opportunist racists like the EDL.  President George W Bush did of course set this great example of restraint and tolerance in the wake of 9/11.

However, too much diplomatic hypocrisy leaves us vulnerable.  We encourage the enemy to think we are utterly stupid, we encourage ourselves to be utterly stupid.

One still marvels that most of the country thinks that when waging a counter-terrorist war there is something wrong with having TPOWs (Terrorist Prisoners of War) in Guantanamo or wheresoever.

Who has been at the forefront of fomenting this suicidal idiocy?  The BBC.

The anti-western narrative of its predominantly left wing news and current affairs coverage of the Afghan and Iraq wars has played directly into the hands of jihad propaganda.

Possibly, the best example of the BBC’s complicity with the enemy, is that brainchild of former Guantanamo inmates Moazzem Begg and Binyam Mohamed, Cageprisoners.  It could not be more patently obvious that Cageprisoners is a Jihadi propaganda organisation.  The best argument in favour of Guantanamo is that Jihadists want to close it down.  Moazzem Begg and Binyam Mohamed should be in a British Guantanamo yesterday.  BBC journalists like Steve Evans and Angela Saini who do their propaganda work for them should enjoy a nice friendly chat with officers from MI5 on the meaning of Treason, and be left in no doubt that the next time they commit it they’ll be in a jail cell within 24 hours.

That’s how wars are fought.  If we don’t fight this war we’re in, we’re going to lose it.

Had we heeded Churchill’s warnings about Hitler we could have avoided WWII, let’s hope we heed his warnings about Islam before we end up in WWIII.

I listened to an item on the BBC Today programme this morning (around6.45am) concerning the fact that Obama himself has weighed in on the all important matter… of the naming of the Washington Redskins. It seems that the Great one has been able to take time out from less weighty matters such as the collapse of his “signature” Obamacare programme to suggest that the use of the term “Redskin” causes offence and perhaps the owner of the club should do something about it.  Native Americans are unhappy it seems and every good liberal shares their pain. The BBC reporter was entirely on the side of those seeking to see Washington scalped off the Redskin name but conceded at the very end of the item that the Billionaire owner of the Redskins has utterly rejected the idea. He added that it still might come eventually. Totally one sided piece.

You do have to contrast the BBC’s unremitting hostility to the Sri Lankan Government (which defeated the Tamil Tiger terrorists) with is fawning over other far from ideal administrations such as South Africa. Cameron is, sadly, playing along with the meme so allowing the comrades to push as much poison as possible the way of Rajapaksa. It’s almost as if the BBC regrets that the Muslim Tamils were beaten by the elected government….

A couple of years ago the BBC insisted that Christians were thriving in the Middle East…even in Gaza where they apparently got on splendidly with Hamas…the only problem was those disagreeable Israelis ruining Christmas in Bethlehem.

Recently we had this from the BBC:

Are there really 100,000 new Christian martyrs every year?

Not of course concerned about Christians but intended to quash any suggestions that it might be Muslims slaughtering those Christians.

“This means we can say right away that the internet rumours of Muslims being behind the killing of 100,000 Christian martyrs are nonsense.”

Guess it is just bad luck that a Muslim, Baroness Warsi no less, who claims that:

Christians ‘face extinction’ amid sectarian terror, minister warns

Exclusive: violence against Christian minorities is now a “global crisis” as worshippers are driven out of their ancient homelands by militants, a senior minister warns

“There are parts of the world today where to be a Christian is to put your life in danger,” she writes. “From continent to continent, Christians are facing discrimination, ostracism, torture, even murder, simply for the faith they follow.

“Christian populations are plummeting and the religion is being driven out of some of its historic heartlands…..

Violence against Christian worshippers and other religious minorities by fanatics has become a “global crisis” and is the gravest challenge facing the world this century.

What’s worse, from the BBC’s point of view,  is that she compares the killers and persecutors to the Nazis and Communists:

It is the same mindset that motivated the Nazis to persecute the Jews and the Communists to suppress the Russian church, she says.

How will the BBC report Warsi’s words?  There will be a short run through of what she said before a stream of contrary opinions criticising her comments…followed by examples of how other groups are equally oppressed, if not more so, possibly by Christians, than the Christians.

In other words they will try to subtly rubbish…undermine… her claims.

The World Meteorological Organisation has released a statement about global temperature in 2013…it starts off with this alarming claim:

The year 2013 is currently on course to be among the top ten warmest years since modern records began in 1850, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

Harrabin jumps eagerly aboard that bandwagon with his own alarming heading:

2013 ‘one of warmest’ on record

Sounds bad doesn’t it?  Maybe not so bad when you read the following from the WMO (and also consider the Medieval Warming Period….long, long before the Industrial Revolution and yet just as hot):

“Temperatures so far this year are about the same as the average during 2001-2010, which was the warmest decade on record,” said WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud.

So…..far from warming the standstill continues….which begs the question why Harrabin is spreading alarm?…..maybe this next quote  answers that:

Mr Kim [President of the World Bank] said the overall trend was clear. He urged governments to end subsidies for fossil fuels and give people clean energy sources.

So Roger, let’s be clear…Mr Kim is saying make fossil fuels more expensive, and then on top of that pay for the green power generation and on top of that keep the old fossil fuel generators going as back up….and of course, as prices are now so high, a very expensive backup.

So we’re to pay to keep the old fossil fuel generation going, and double up with a second, and redundant, layer of green generation.

Harrabin is clearly pushing the green taxes agenda, the Miliband solution…ironically….the man who wants to freeze fuel prices that he caused to rise.

Harrabin rounds it all off with confirmation of his agenda with this dig at Cameron:

In the UK, which has led the world in climate change policy, the Prime Minister David Cameron has shifted the emphasis from tackling climate change to holding down consumers’ bills.

The WMO is definitely massaging the message…and Harrabin is happy to help out….the WMO also ties in the hurricane Haiyan with climate change and then takes a look at the Antarctic telling us that:

For the second year in a row, Antarctic sea ice extent in September reached a record maximum of 19.47 million square kilometers according to NSIDC.

So the Antarctic is putting on ice……in a world that is warming….how can that be?

The WMO has the solution….ignore it…..

Antarctica differs from the Arctic in that the Arctic is comprised of water surrounded by land. Conversely, the Antarctic is comprised of land surrounded by open ocean water. Wind patterns and ocean currents tend to isolate Antarctica from global weather patterns, keeping it cold.

….all that record breaking ice…it’s just a bit of local weather.

Curious that they tried to dismiss the Medieval Warm Period by claiming the warmth was regional and not spread across the whole globe….different story now then…..as shown here…

Regional Temperatures

During the first nine months of 2013, most of the world’s land areas had above-average temperatures, most notably in Australia northern North America, northeastern South America, northern Africa, and much of Eurasia. Cooler-than-average temperatures were observed across a concentrated region of North America, central South America and the eastern Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of Ecuador, a small region of northern Russia, and parts of northeastern Asia.

So ‘cooler than average’ for much of the globe?….you can see they use careful wording to try and limit that belief….‘a small region‘, a ‘concentrated region’, and ‘parts of’……but that’s not true….vast areas have been getting colder…breaking records in fact….Russia, China, South America, India, and Europe with record snow falls.

Of course…erm…global warming is to cause for the massive freeze up.

Here are some interesting climate links via Bishop Hill and WUWT:

Blackout Britain — why our energy crisis is only just beginning

The Environment on T.V….Are Broadcasters Meeting The Challenge?

Why and How the IPCC Demonized CO2 with Manufactured Information