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.