Racist, Sexist, Anti-Scientific, Mentally Retarded Idiotic Morons…Then You’re Likely A Republican, A Climate Denier, or Both.

The BBC conspires not only to keep climate change critics off the air but to smear, undermine and denigrate them and their views as much as possible, going so far as to claim they are in need of psychiatric help. However when you look at the outbursts from, and the extreme views of, many climate ‘believer’ advocates you might begin to wonder just who it is that might be in … Continue reading

Soylent Greens

‘Modern methods of printing and advertising make it enormously cheaper to produce and distribute one newspaper with a large circulation than many with small circulations; consequently, in so far as the Press controls opinion, there is uniformity, and, in particular, there is uniformity of news. Broadcasting is a new method likely to acquire great potency as soon as people are satisfied that it is not a method of propaganda.’  Bertrand … Continue reading

“CONSERVATIVES” ENDANGER ARAB SPRING

I happened to catch an item on the Today programme this morning concerning the ongoing violence in Tunisia. The essential argument out across by BBC reporter Wyre Davies was the “conservative Islamists” are endangering the joyous hard won fruit of the “Arab Spring” and provoking the righteous anger of “liberal Islamists” who have taken to the streets to protest following the death of “leftist secular politician Chokri Belaid”.  It strikes … Continue reading

A LITTLE LOCAL DIFFICULTY

Perhaps this post should have been titled ‘Stones and Glasshouses’.   More than 850 BBC employees have come forward to raise their concerns about bullying and sexual harassment at the corporation, fueling fears about the broadcaster’s culture. A “staggering” number of staff members have contacted private consultants brought in by the BBC in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. Their feedback has been shared with Dinah Rose, QC, the … Continue reading

Famous Last Words

In light of the previous post by DB I thought this was appropriate along with a look at what turned David Attenborough into an advocate for climate change:   Sir David Attenborough on global warming Sir David Attenborough has been criticised for not speaking out sooner and more forcefully on climate change. In an exclusive podcast interview for the Guardian he explains why TV fame means you have to be … Continue reading

BLAST FROM THE PAST

US bracing for ‘historic’ blizzard A blizzard of potentially historic proportions threatened to strike the Northeast with a vengeance Friday, with up to two feet of snow forecast along the densely populated corridor from the New York City area to Boston and beyond.     I suppose there is no better time than now to amuse oneself with a look back in time at what the Met. Office in 2008 … Continue reading

Media Influence On Politics

Interesting piece from Guido this morning in which he highlights Leftwing attempts to launch a politically motivated muzzling of certain media providers…notably Murdoch. EU Lefties Trying to Ban Murdoch, Axel Springer and Berlusconi ‘Their real goal is betrayed in the ‘about’ section of their website: “Some, notably the UK, suffer from problems of excessive concentration leading to undue influence of certain economic groups, notably Murdoch’s media empire, over political processes”. Arguably … Continue reading

ROGER THE DODGER

The sensitivity of the climate to the effects of CO2 may have been exaggerated admits a climate change scientist: Staggering Admission By James Annan: “High Climate Sensitivity Increasingly Untenable” ‘Several recent papers showing much the same – numerous factors including: the increase in positive forcing (CO2 and the recent work on black carbon), decrease in estimated negative forcing (aerosols), combined with the stubborn refusal of the planet to warm as … Continue reading