Category Archives: Richard Black ocean acidification

The deluge of BBC greenie propaganda continues. Today we have sea urchins resisting ocean acidification caused by climate change. As any ful no (apologies to the wonderful Ronald Searle), (for CHRISSAKE!), oceans are not acid, despite what greenies say. They have framed the debate in this way to deliberately cause alarmism. At the current rate of alleged change (even on the most alarmist figures, and accepting that they knew how to measure pH values accurately 250 years ago)) it would take 3,500 years for the seas to be no longer alkaline. And even if they do so change, they have been of a lower pH value in the past and sea life SURVIVED AND MULTIPLIED. Who are the BBC idiots who write and sub such nonsense?

Then there is Richard Black, faithfully reporting their highnesses’ voices from the Japan ecofascist biodiversity talks, that we need a minister of greenness to frame and enforce green laws, extract green taxes and prevent us turning a single new clod of soil if it is deemed to be “natural”. It’s accompanied by the usual warnings that there are too many people and that we are all going to die unless we roll over and supinely accept such authoritarian claptrap. What’s so sickening about this is that normally, Mr Black and his liberal cronies would project as repressive any steps that increased government control. But because it’s being done in the name of protecting the environment, anything goes. The BBC hated John Gummer when he was a Tory minister (note how Mark Easton refers to him “shoving a burger” down his daughter’s throat during the BSE scare), but now he’s an ecosaint, his words are reported with unqualified reverence.

Hilary Benn, who has spent his entire useless life as a lefty trade union official and politician – after reading eastern European languages at right-on Sussex university – has risen, by some fluke, to be a government minister with a brief to pontificate about “climate change”. Not content that he and his government cronies last week pledged to blow £1.5bn of our money on “carbon emissions”, he is today to warn the the new world government assembled in Copenhagen that we face yet another threat – “ocean acidification”. Despite his complete lack of relevant knowledge, he somehow believes he’s qualified to interpret to the world the highly complex science behind the absorption of CO2 by seawater. Of course, to him and his fanatical brethren, it’s another huge threat, another reason to spend billions of our money on vast nonsense schemes. For the BBC and its environment correspondent Richard Black, another man without a single scientific qualification to his name, it’s a top story that must be breathlessly reported without qualification or challenge. And without reference to latest scientific papers (here and here)that suggest that the whole issue is yet another greenie load of hot air.