Today's latest example of deliberate disinformation about climate change and global warming is brought to you - yet again - via the BBC. The Countryfile programme on BBC1 has just given one its regular features on climate change. This time it has interviewed Michele Taylor from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, who explained to presenter John Craven the features of an automatic weather station located in Wytham Woods in the Oxfordshire countryside, 5 kilometres (what happened to miles?) from Oxford itself. Ms Taylor explained what Craven was looking at:
Sunday, 23 November 2008
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Posted on The Waendel Journal.Sunday, 23 November 2008
More BBC global warming disinformationThis is an automatic weather station. It measures the main elements of climate so we have got temperature, wind direction, light, rainfall. It is taking readings every 10 seconds and gives us hourly summaries every day of the year.
So it actually measures weather. That could be why it is called a weather station rather than a climate station. Anyway, the discussion continues about location and history of weather recording in the area. Then there is the key exchange between Ms Taylor and Craven:
MT: We can put our data into a long term context. We started in 1992 here.
There has been no warming for the last decade. In fact the planet has cooled slightly - to such an extent that the previous warming has been reversed. Prior to this, in the period 1970-1998, the net warming was claimed to be 0.5 degrees celcius, not the 1 degree advanced in such a sloppy fashion by Michele Taylor, which was accepted without being challenged or corrected.
JC: And what changes have been noted in the years since 1992 then?
MT: Yes, well I mean, with climate change a lot of the warming has been in sort of the last decade. So, um, even since 1992 we have seen sort of about 1 degree increase in sort of mean temperatures.
The problem is that the demonstrably false claims slipped into comments by people on programmes, as we saw this morning, may be accepted as accurate by viewers who have not come across the deliberately quiet and low profile confirmation of the truth. It is a disgrace that the BBC is continuing to peddle knowingly false claims because it has adopted an editorial position on the subject. As Jeremy Paxman put it in the Guardian in January 2007:
""I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am willing to acknowledge that people who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that it 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."
Not only are we ill-served by this biased and deliberately misleading editorial line, we are forced to pay for this propaganda campaign or else be fined or imprisoned. It is an insult.Detroit's Future Is Bloody Obvious
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Posted on The Tap BlogSunday, November 23, 2008
Detroit's Future Is Bloody Obvious
Let's get right down to basics.
Ask people what kind of automobiles they want to buy.
And stop producing autos that they don't wish to buy.
I don't live in the USA, but I have read many reports going back years stating that Americans would love to buy a particular type of car, which is still not available. They are not available for any technological reason, or physical barriers. Americans are prevented from buying these cars by the restrictions placed upon them by government, and the lack of the risk-taking drive that is needed to bring them into being by the industry. See Governments Fear Green Energy.
I am referring of course to electric cars that with lithium batteries can take one or two people to work every day with a range of 40 miles from an overnight recharge, or with an eighty mile daily range if recharging is also made available at work. Some guys have built their own at home, like Richard, the Olympia, Washington Grandfather talking in the clip below, who is now recharging his home made Volts Wagon using solar power from the roof of his house.
But let's keep this very simple to begin with so that politicians can follow the logic.
The lithium is available if miners were given clear cut instructions to go and get it in big enough quantities.
If there were 100 million electric commuter cars made available in the USA - without them even needing to be hybrid necessarily, you could probably sell them in a year. And the energy saving from electric motors driving America as opposed to the inefficiencies of internal combustion would save another vast wedge of US dollars - not to mention solve a large chunk of the deficit on trade.
Now wouldn't that be a better plan for the preservation of Detroit than bankrupting the Federal Government? I think so.
So there is one major headache solved, Mr President. Please don't listen to anyone or anything that says this cannot be done. Of course it can.
As I said, ask consumers what they want to buy then go away and get it for them. It's really not very difficult.
The world slump is already half way to being solved here and that only took thee short paragraphs of a blogger's time. Why don't they create a really difficult problem for us to work on?
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Sunday, 23 November 2008
The above title does not resonate with current news reports about the US auto industry where doom, gloom and destruction are all you see and hear. There is no demand for cars, they say. We need a multi-billion dollar bailout, they add. And there is no hope of any other method of survival. Really? I don't think so.
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Ah yes, but the 1 degree warming to which they refer may be been 1 degree Fahrenheit per annum, which is about 0.5 degree Centigrade.
It is bizarre though. A year or two ago the scales fell from my eyes and I realised that not only was GW a Big Fat Lie but that there was no link between the weather and us driving around in cars. Ever since then I have been amazed by the inconsistencies and inaccuracies peddled by the MMGW brigade, I am baffled that anybody else still falls for it.
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