HOT AIR FROM THE MET OFFICE

I’m sure you may have noticed this but it is still worth pointing out,as this B-BBC does! “It’s taken two weeks, but the BBC website has finally gotten around to reporting the Met Office’s press release of 24th December that the so-called Climate Model has been revised (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20947224). Why so long? Because the new model suggests that any temperature rise will be less than expected, based on new computer … Continue reading

THE MARY SEACOLE OF SOCCER?

A Biased BBC reader sent this! The BBC is carrying a fawning article about Arthur Wharton – see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20878659. Most people will never have heard of him, but he was apparently the first black professional footballer. He was, by many accounts, an interesting character and his story may well be deserving of a wider audience (he was also a preacher). But look how the BBC describes him: “one of the … Continue reading

Cherry Picking For Effect

    The above is a graph (hopefully now showing…apologies, but was OK when posted originally) plotted using rainfall data from as far back as 1766 by Doug Keenan(via Bishop Hill).  It doesn’t show any particular change in present rainfall patterns from those experienced since 1766. The Data is from the Met. Office’s Hadley climate centre…which boasts…. An independent review of the Met Office Hadley Centre commissioned by Defra and … Continue reading

IS THE BBC ‘HACKING’ YOUR COMPUTER?

  I assume this has an entirely innocent explanation: Right click on the area of screen playing a video and click on ‘Global Settings’, then click on the ‘Camera and Microphone’ tab and open  ‘Camera and Microphone settings by site’  and this is what you might see…..     s.ytmg.com is apparently Youtube allowing for interactive video games but why does the BBC need to request  access to my camera … Continue reading

Say It Ain’t True

  The BBC ignored the oncoming US ‘Fiscal Cliff’ for a long time but has now got the recent deal that at least initially puts the brakes on marked down as one of Obama’s magical successes….something we in Britain, George Osborne in particular, could learn from.   However what the BBC aren’t telling us is that the deal imposes more ‘Austerity’ on the US than Osborne has imposed upon us … Continue reading

The BBC’s Transmission Omission Mission

The BBC is happily stoking a New Year revolution reporting with glee every claim by Labour, the Unions, charities and interest groups that they can lay their hands on which attack the government in any way possible. It seems that anybody with an anti-government message can have their say on the BBC…but what is more telling is what the BBC is not telling…… Today the BBC are having a field … Continue reading