TL;DR David Attenborough’s “Climate Change – the Facts” was unbalanced. It failed to mention twelve key facts. It also failed to interview experts whose views on energy policy have, rightly, been informed by these facts. In its pre-prepared defence of the programme, already used as a stock response to at least three complaints we know …
The media is buzzing frenziedly with tales of the impending doom of almost a quarter of the West Antarctic ice sheet, with ‘catastrophic’ rises in sea levels as a consequence. A new Antarctic ice loss death spiral study has been released and the lame stream media are loving it. I was going to comment on … Continue reading
The article by Guardian Environment editor Damian Carrington on redefining the English language mentioned by Paul in his recent post led me to another article by Damian published just the day before, titled “‘Extraordinary thinning’ of ice sheets revealed deep inside Antarctica.” The subtitle says: “New research shows affected areas are losing ice five times faster … Continue reading
Further evidence of the institutional dishonesty of the BBC over climate change: on Wednesday, Radio 4’s Costing the Earth had a programme on “Eco-anxiety”. Is the future of the planet making you depressed? Do you feel paralysed, unable to imagine the happiness of future generations? As global governments fail to respond to the existential crisis … Continue reading
The scientifically illiterate moron who is in charge of the Guardian has decreed that instead of “climate change”, her writers should use the term “climate emergency”, because she thinks this term is “scientifically precise”. The Guardian has updated its style guide to introduce terms that more accurately describe the environmental crises facing the world. Instead … Continue reading
“The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.” – Alexander Cockburn If you look on the American Press Institute’s website you will find a definition for the purpose of journalism that is very difficult to argue with: “News is that part of communication that keeps us informed of the changing … Continue reading
The BBC radio programme More or Less often provides, in my view, a reasonably thoughtful counterpoint or qualifier to some of the BBC’s more uncritical and alarming science coverage. At the end of last month, one topic was the much-vaunted “Insect Armageddon” and the scary claim that insects are facing global extinction in 100 years’ … Continue reading
Paul Homewood beat me to it with this, but I just can’t resist writing a post on it also. Just too funny. The BBC reports that Cambridge scientists are to set up a centre looking at ways to ‘fix’ the climate. One of the ideas apparently is to “refreeze the poles”. The initiative is … Continue reading
