The BBC’s false reporting of climate issues appears to be reaching epidemic proportions. Paul Homewood has a post BBC’s Fake Climate Claims Now Becoming A Habit in which he discusses three examples – sea level rise in Florida, reindeer in Russia, and hurricanes. Then there were the fake news stories from Roger Harrabin on Jan 18th, … Continue reading
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BBC ignores complaint over fake news
As readers may recall from previous posts, the 6 O’clock news on BBC Radio 4 on 18 January started with the false claim that “The world’s leading climate agencies have said for the first time that global warming caused by humans now dwarfs natural temperature changes.” This was, to put it bluntly, a lie. None … Continue reading
BBC doubles down on fake climate news
On January 18th, the BBC 6pm Radio 4 news started with a completely false headline, as I reported here the next day. I wrote a complaint to the BBC, using their online complaints form. Here is my complaint: Complaint Summary: Completely untrue statement in headline radio news Full Complaint: The 6pm Radio 4 News on … Continue reading
BBC allows a sceptic on every year or two, complains Chairman Leo
Al Jazeera has a news story on The curious persistence of climate scepticism. The text says Climate scepticism is fringe and unscientific. So why is it that sceptics still manage, in certain countries, to get airtime denying the effects of global warming? Sceptics theories in the news media, such as carbon dioxide doesn’t cause … Continue reading
Fake news from the BBC, Harrabin and Stott
Plenty of solace. For example in pointing out your falsehoods. Here's the latest MetOffice news and it doesn't say what you claim.https://t.co/1FpwoXDxpx — Paul Matthews (@etzpcm) January 19, 2018 Yesterday’s 6pm Radio 4 News opened with a headline claim that “The world’s leading climate agencies have said for the first time that global warming … Continue reading
BBC on Freedom of Speech
Paul Matthews,who is on holiday, draws our attention to this article on the BBC site. I could have added a link under my last article, but it seems important enough to quote in full, and to give it the maximum publicity. Commenters please note, there are now two different though overlapping subjects under discussion: the … Continue reading
Censoring Lord Lawson
Paul Matthews’ article on the Gore/Stott/Lawson furore deals with the important question of whether a top climate scientist has been economical with the truth in an interview on BBC Radio 4’s “Today” programme. Mainstream media coverage has entirely ignored the contribution of Professor Stott and concentrated on the question of whether ex-minister Nigel Lawson should … Continue reading
