Mar 01 2007
The BBC reveal their ignorance and prejudice again
This morning on the Today programme there was an item explaining that the attitude of the US administration had set back the work to tackle climate change by daring to voice scepticism about the science.
The BBC should do its homework and they would discover that US carbon emissions have been rising more slowly than European ones. They should realise that some important European countries will not hit their Kyoto targets. Which is worse -?? not signing Kyoto, or signing it and then failing to implement it?
They should discover that the US has progressively tightened its regulations concerning pollution from motor vehicles, and has pioneered some of the renewable technologies that can help. This regualtory approach to the problem happened on President Bush’s watch. How do they explain that?
Scientific advance requires continuing scepticism about all current theories. The BBC should study the actions of governments and people as much as listen to their words. As Al Gore has shown, it is one thing to say all this matters, but it is quite another to live a life that matches the challenge. Al Gore has travelled so many air miles peddling his film, and we now learn that his own home is a??power guzzler. No mention of that on this BBC item on climate change.
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
Via Biased BBC:
“People who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that [global warming] is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC’s coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago”, Jeremy Paxman, Media Guardian, Jan 31st, 2007.
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“Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U.N. panel. IPCC is not a scientific institution: it’s a political body, a sort of non-government organization of green flavor.”
Vaclav Klaus President of the Czechs & I suspect rather better informed than Paxo. He went on to say Gore is insane. This statement has not been reported by the BBC or indeed any of the rest of the MSM.
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I believe that on any environmental issue the truth is to be found almost exactly opposite to whatever Jonathan Porrit, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth are saying.
I should worry, these warm Winters are good for my joints.
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A hypocritical global warming activist? Surely not.
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I’m frankly horrified that Gore’s emotional and inaccurate film is to be compulsary viewing for schoolchildren. I suppose the theory from the “Church of Global Warming” is to “catch them young” while they’re still uncritical - and, thanks to present school standards, uneducated.
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