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 …
Greta Thunberg has the longest single intervention in the BBC documentary “Climate Change.. the Facts,” and it has pride of place as the last item, just before Attenborough’s summing up. For those who don’t read every comment under every article, here’s a summary of what I know about her: Greta’s mother is an opera singer, and a … Continue reading
Of the 28 experts interviewed in the BBC programme “Climate Change .. the Facts,” there was just one journalist, Richard Black, ex-BBC environmental correspondent and director and founder of the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit. He appears nine times in “..The Facts.” Black’s contributions add nothing to the argument, but essentially provide link material. He introduces … Continue reading
A new study has recently been published by Mandy Freund et al entitled ‘Higher frequency of Central Pacific El Niño events in recent decades relative to past centuries‘. The research is based upon a 400 year coral record gathered from various regions in the equatorial Pacific. The authors conclude that Central Pacific (CP) El … Continue reading
Overheard on the BBC News Channel’s “Beyond 100 Days” programme yesterday (h/t Pablo at Paul Homewood’s blog): * * * Christian Fraser: You know, yesterday I was on the south coast in Brighton, Katty, and I was looking out to sea at the wind turbines which were turning at quite a rate of knots yesterday … Continue reading
The BBC has just reported on the newly published Summary for Policy Makers of the as yet unpublished UN 1800 page global assessment of nature compiled by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The two day old ‘climate crisis’, so recently [not] declared by the British government has already been … Continue reading
In order to not save the world from supposedly dangerous anthropogenic global warming (because UK GHG emissions are tiny – and going downwards – in comparison to emissions from China and India, which are huge, and increasing), the UK climate change committee has recommended that householders set their central heating thermostat to 19C. … Continue reading
David Attenborough: In a lifetime spent observing Nature, nothing has been more rewarding to me than the time I have spent studying reptiles at the BBC. These cold-blooded creatures can seem so exotic – even off-putting to some – but, at the same time, strangely familiar. [Image of large lizard with half a small lizard … Continue reading
