PUTTING ON THE STYLE
The BBC reports that the UK economy shrunk less than thought! (Less than who thought?) Yes, economic output shrunk by only 0.3% in Q3, not the 0.4% originally suggested. Ring out the bells. Maybe the BBC could provide us with some insight into why it is that ONLY the UK of ALL the major global economies remains firmly in recession, given that our Prime Minister is on record stating the UK was better placed than most to weather the recession. Turns out that we were less well placed to withstand the storm than any other major economy. Who shall we blame?
BAD SCIENCE, GOOD BBC
1.Durham tell me that monkeys smell the genes of suitable mates!
This is clearly due to (and therefore confirmation of) natural selection. WE don`t know HOW they do this but we can say that they do it deliberately! This confirms the famous "smelly T-shirt tests" of the 90s and shows that we too will no doubt "unconsciously" choose our mates in the same way-hold the Downs Syndrome research please! This was Durham University Anthropology Departments offering!
2. Bristol tell me that-on this the day of a "strategic policy announcement" by the Government by happy coincidence-that a survey of 1300 girls and vulnerable Young women shows that all men and boys are "totally beastly". They need to be told early in primary school that domestic violence is" inappropriate "("out of order!" for those less gifted maybe?) and the senior research "fellow"(surely Harman needs another word here!)-one Quango Christine Barter(honest!)-tells us that they all lack self-esteem(natch!). This is what Bristol's Centre for Gender and Violence(formerly under Luton University's wing until all equality was removed there in 2005!) offered us up to the news at 8.00!
So my points?
James Naughtie may know his opera but does he have the first clue about science-a survey of 1300 girls say that boys can be "totally" a pain-did Barter ask Jane Andrews? is 1300 a sufficient survey size?-might not her department get a little funding and support for its agenda?-were the NSPCC and other charities helpful-and why today to coincide with State plans?..so many questions!
Lets hear no more about dumbing down from Durham or Bristol unless they set out whether their funding depends on getting on Naughties stump to smear teatree oil over all their academic reputations-UEA ought to warn them that it`s slippery out there!
CLIMATE CHANGE MANIA RESUMES
Yesterday, I said that remarkable things seemed to be happening at the BBC in terms of reporting that there were problems in the global warming/climate change scam. I spoke far too soon. Roger Harrabin and his fanatical, deeply politicised lefty chums have clearly been fighting behind the scenes to push warming up the agenda to blitz levels. Today on the website are at least four stories all of which illustrate just how deeply enmeshed in the scam the corporation is.
First there's a report that African conflicts go up when the weather is warm, thus showing that global warming is to blame for the continent's miseries in more ways than one. The idiotic compilers even blame the Darfur fighting on carbon dioxide. I have read a lot of history that is deterministic tosh, but that takes the biscuit. I suppose the boys and girls at the BBC think the heat is more important than fanatical Islam fundamentalism?
Second on the list, is the news that the government/quango employees at the Forestry Commission, aided an abetted by environment secretary Hilary Benn are wasting millions more of our money by urging the planting of millions of trees "to suck carbon out of the atmosphere". Of course, there may well be some environmental sense in planting more trees, but hoovering up CO2, a perfectly harmless gas, is not one of them. To the BBC, of course, it's the number one reason.
Third is that the Met Office - which works closely in tandem with the discredited CRU centre in Norwich - is predicting that this year could be the third hottest in the history of the world, ever. Putting aside that such data is hotly denied by "sceptics" (why can't we call them something less negative, such as "realists")because the methodology of measurement is hotly disputed, Harrabinhas reported such baloney yet again as accepted fact.
And fourth, heavy prominence is gven to the idea that part of East Antarctica may be melting. There's hardly a peep in the report that, even according to the paper itself, it might not be - because the measurements involved are highly speculative.
What is entirely missing from the BBC website (as far as I could see) is a reportabout the real impact of all the "climate change" measures the government are introducing. Namely, that thousands more pensioners die in winter than summer because they can't afford the fuel bills that have been vastly inflated by the EU's emissions directives and the madacap rush to build hugely expensive and inefficient renewable sources of energy.
World Have Your Say
>> TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2009
Last week I noted that the producers of the BBC's World Service programmeWHYS were complaining that they couldn't generate any interest in Copenhagen and climate change. Well there's plenty of interest now, and last night the programme actually had three sceptics on: the great Christopher Booker, Patrick Michaels from the Cato Institute, and Prof Richard Lindzen from MIT (who hung up the phone in despair at the quality of argument when he was compared to, among other things, a slavery denier [new one on me] by a representative from a Kenyan NGO). There were also three believers in MMGW, plus presenter Ros Atkins who was clearly antagonistic towards the sceptics (or deniers as he called them on more than one occasion). (Download podcasthere.)
This level of balance appears to have been too much for the warmists because Atkins has had to defend the decision to have the sceptics on. The alarmists are trying to close down the debate again; it is essential that pressure is kept on the BBC to ensure that the sceptical voices we've heard on the airwaves over the past couple of days are not just some temporary token gesture.
Update. Forgot to add - the sceptics kicked ass!
Update 2. Great piece by Gerald Warner on the BBC's coverage of Climategate. (Hat tip George R).
Re : Sarah Palin (and Barack Obama)
Don't expect to see these polls featuring on the Today programme tomorrow.
Not that it matters politically because obviously she's a female Republican dunce and he's obviously a male Democratic genius.
But Sarah Palin's poll numbers are strengthening.
And President Obama's are sliding.
Guess what? They're about to meet in the 40s.
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