MORE BBC HOT AIR

MORE BBC HOT AIR

>> THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2009

The BBC, as we well know, will bust a gut to report anything that supports AGW. It is now also resorting to staging ludicrously simplistic rigged scientific experiments on Newsnight to persuade viewers that its 'climate change' crusade is legitimate. A What's Up With That correspondent explains: 

Here’s something I found shocking and that you don’t see every day: the British government’s former chief scientific adviser Professor Sir David King flagrantly lying on national television to boost the dubious idea that some foreign agency (the Russian secret service?) was behind Climategate. This was in the context of BBC 2’s Newsnight staging a peculiar experiment, with a politically-correct black female “space scientist” heating two bottles – one containing “air” (last time I looked, that included carbon dioxide anyway) and one containing “atmospheric air with a greater concentration of carbon dioxide” (they didn’t say how much they were adding, of course, but I’d bet it was substantially more than 0.000388%!). Surprise, surprise — the latter bottle grew hotter… Of course it did. A greater amount of carbon dioxide will be warmer when heat is applied. This is not a surprise! The proportions are key, of course, as you know. Newsnight itself characterised the effort right at the start as a “very unscientific experiment” — so why do it at all?! In fact the “science” as presented was misleading and selective to the point of deception.

The WUWT entry goes on to explain in detail why the experiment is an indicator only of the complexity and pitfalls of setting up such scientific experiements. Deception? The BBC misrepresentation of 'climate change' goes well beyond that. It's systematic fraud.

CHRISTMAS OPEN THREAD

For those brave enough to endure the BBC over the next few days - here's a seasonal open thread just for you...

A HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL B-BBC READERS

Just me signing off for the next few days - back on the 27th! May I take this opportunity to wish everyone on Biased-BBC a Very Happy Christmas. Thanks for all your encouragement and support during 2009, you've been a tremendous help and I shall return to the fray in few days time.

GOD BLESS OBAMA...

The BBC continues to provide comment on Obama by using hard left commentators such as Dennis Kucinich. Today @ 7.52am. In essence, the line peddled by Kucinich is that the US needs an "NHS" model of health-care and so the Obamacare model does not go far enough. It's amazing how the BBC is only prepared to provide a forum for those who seek to attack Obama from the far left. Mind you, in an attempt at "balance", Mark Mardell was on at 7.13am to sing the praises of Obama. Fair and balanced, as ever.

SONJA SEES RED AT THE BBC

>> WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2009

Excellent letter here from the Dr. Sonja Boehmer-Christensen to the BBC detailing just how subtle but pernicious it propagandises on behalf of the AGW lobby has become.

SO, HOW IS OBAMA DOING?

Obama's plunging approval ratings HAD to be eventually covered by the BBC and so it came about this morning, at 8.33, that in a sublime example of BBC bias, Today trundled on Arianna Huffington of the left wing Huffington Post. Her take, unsurprisingly, was that Obama had not been radical enough and all that pesky "compromise" (?) had disillusioned some supporters. IF the BBC was serious about balance - which it is not, of course - it should also have allowed someone from say National Review or indeed even some one like Ann Coulter to deliver an alternate take on Obama. But, from the BBC perspective, having a radical leftist pronounce judgement on the leftist President seems very logical.

A HIGHER LEVEL OF BIAS

Did you catch the item on Today @ 7.50am concerning planned government cutbacks in higher education? What struck me was the sympathetic attitude Naughtie took when interviewing Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University College Union and this contrasted with the outright hostility then shown towards Andrew Haldenby of Reform. Not a trace of bias there, right?

"world" "news"

>> TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2009

The BBC is now promoting the cold weather in Europe to one of the top stories. What about the fact that more than half the entire USA is under snow at the moment? In any case the worst period for cold is over for most of central Europe at least (I know whereof I speak- in Prague where I am the daytime temperatures were minus 12 celsius or so only a couple of days ago; I'm lucky my ears didn't freeze off). The Beeb typically refer to this as Europe's "cold snap", implying that it's a little aberration. Well, they'll soon be able to catch up with the weather and report a warming, as is their wont. But it seems to me that more than half the USA under snow (average depth across this area 3.8 inches) is a much bigger story, yet it has been relegated to the status of a freak east coast winter storm. The BBC tend to concentrate on the effects regardless of the intensity of the weather (unless it suits them), ignoring the fact that Europe's chaos- at the very least the UK's- is in large part due to reduced capacity as a result of lower expectations following predictions of global warming. Yet again the BBC's coverage- even of the weather!- is distorted by ideology. When there is no financial rationale behind a business, ideas do tend to take over like bindweed.

WHY SHOPLIFTING IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO...

With the retail stores so busy at the moment, up pops and Anglican cleric Tim Jones who reckons that shoplifting is understandable, if not desirable. Naturally the BBC found a soapbox for him this morning with viewers phoning in to express their delight at this most progressive of vicars. Tim blames "society" for letting thieves down and the BBC seemed delighted to find a Christian minister they can at last agree with. Did you catch him on BBC circa 8.42am? Blessed are the shoplifters for they shall inherit the earth...

PEACE ON EARTH - GOODWILL TOWARDS IRAN

The BBC just keeps giving when it comes the Mullahs in Tehran. This morning ituncritically covers the latest lies from Ahmadinejad on the topic of Iranian nuclear intentions. Yes, I know the 12th Imam's dining pal selected US network ABC to use as his conduit for propaganda (Big surprise, the BBC must be gutted) but I would have expected the BBC to at least provide those who suffer under the Mullahs with an opportunity to comment on Ahmadinejad's drivel but..no such luck. If it applied the same rigour it gives to comments by David Cameron as it does to comments by fanatics like Maddy at least there would be some consistency but no such process applies to the BBC.

PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TO HAMAS

I see the BBC has been doing it's best for those poor innocents that support Hamas. It reports today that "the world" failed Gaza earlier this year. I agree. "The world" should have fully supported Israel as it sought to defend itself from the murderous intent of the Islamic Jihadists that constitute Hamas. But that's NOT the line being retailed by the BBC this morning. No, you see the issue is that the bad Jews need to be pressurised much more for daring to defend themselves, or so says those impartial anti-Semites at Oxfam. The BBC is beside itself with joy at this seasonal message from the fake Charities although it does Israel two sentences to defend itself at the very end of the report. Meanwhile on Today, we had Hamada Abuqammar @ 7.19am relating just how tough life is for the poor people of Gaza, and explaining exactly why all those tunnels into Egypt are for humanitarian purposes. Hamas must love the BBC - if only they, rather than we, funded them.