Harrabin’s Climate Spin…or is that ‘Vortex’

    Look at this headline from January 2013: US 2012 heat record ‘partly due to climate change’   And this from 2012: The last year in the continental US has been the country’s hottest since modern record-keeping began in 1895, say government scientists. One of the agency’s weather experts suggested climate change was playing a role in the hot temperatures.   However the BBC had to qualify the claim … Continue reading

MONDAY OPEN THREAD!

Hi folks!  Sorry for lack of posting but my home internet died on Saturday and had to wait until now to update! My apologies! Did you perchance catch Nicky Campbell’s “The Big Questions” with Comrade Owen Jones and the rest of the usual rent-a-lefty brigade? Grim stuff! Anyway over to you!!

Cold Discomfort

  Spokesman Alvin Stone tells The Australian that the stranding of their vessel, Akademik Shokalskiy, has been misconstrued. “One of the misconceptions is that this is a climate-change voyage full of climate scientists, which is actually not true,” he says. “There are a couple of climate scientists on board, but it is just a scientific expedition and it is quite broad, with biologists, geographers, looking at penguin and seal populations … Continue reading

Voyage Of The Damned Fools

The BBC reports today that a US ice-breaker, the Polar Star, has now been called in to rescue not only the trapped Akademik Shokalskiy, but also the Chinese rescue ship, the  Xue Long, which transferred those passengers from one to the other, and is now itself trapped. In other words, the ship which rescued the passengers from the trapped ship by flying them in a helicopter to another ship, which … Continue reading

The BBC, Still Selling Us A Lie On Immigration

    The Telegraph tells us this: Long-time immigrants almost as concerned about immigration as UK-born people, study shows   Whilst the Daily Mail reports this: British families will ‘lose out’ from influx of cheap labour from Romania and Bulgaria, Miliband admits in call to close low wages loophole More British workers will ‘lose out’ from the influx of cheap labour from Romania and Bulgaria, Ed Miliband has admitted. The … Continue reading

The Truth About Immigration From The BBC?

  A few days ago we had this from the Daily Mail: Skewed figures and a BBC agenda: As a new wave of Eastern Europeans arrive, JAMES SLACK reveals how the ‘benefits’ of immigration are endlessly overstated It was a fascinating and damning article…more of which later. But suddenly the BBC has ‘allowed’, I might suggest ‘directed’, Nick Robinson to pen this for the Daily Mail: NICK ROBINSON: The public … Continue reading

Did The BBC Help Thatcher Crush The Miners In ’84?

  The BBC up to their usual tricks….trying their hardest to malign Thatcher….and have dragged in ex-BBC journo, Nick Jones, to help out…..Jones being very pro the miners who went out on strike and anti-Tory….but of course the BBC doesn’t mention his ‘leanings.’   The BBC has published this farcical ‘report’ based on material released by the National Archives on the Miner’s Strike and Nick Jones’ interpretation of it and … Continue reading

“EXTREME” WEATHER BIAS

In the space of a few minutes on the Today programme this morning, we had two egregious instances of BBC climate change hype. First, it was claimed that 2013 was the official warmest year ever in Australia. As it happens, I was in Australia last year for a few weeks, it wasn’t that warm but the BBC managed to add that such extreme heat “fitted into the global pattern”. Really? … Continue reading