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 WHILE NERO FIDDLES....

>> SATURDAY, DECEMBER 05, 2009

The BBC is still giving massive prominence to those who, against all the evidence, dismiss Climategate as inconsequential. Have they not read this, which shows that the CRU records were based on the crudest of computer programmes? Meanwhile, as our economy collapses, the jerk Ed Miliband is conspiring to give away billions of our money in the Copenhagen Treaty, not just this year, but forever. Our leaders are about to commit to the largest blank cheque in history, as well as to send us back to the dark ages. What have we told about this by the BBC in all its hot air about AGW? Nothing.

Harrabin: media wrong, science not settled!

>> FRIDAY, DECEMBER 04, 2009

Make sure you're sitting down for this one.

BBC environment correspondent Roger Harrabin on Radio Five Live Breakfast this morning:

"There is a sort of misapprehension here that we in the media have probably helped to perpetuate: that the science of climate change, all the details, are settled. In fact there's a lot of uncertainty about big areas of the science as to what will happen."

A frank admission from an unexpected quarter. The fallout from Climategate continues.

SLAVISH REPORTING

You've got to laugh. Or cry. For two weeks, the internet has been smoking hot with thousands of reports about Climategate and its implications. EU Referendum has a very interesting post this morning showing that, according to an ingenious new method of measuring interest in a particular topic, the public are very interested, too. 

What about the BBC? Well, of course, they have virtually ignored it, preferring to concentrate instead on putting their £750m news resources into reporting subjects they like, such as the embarrassment of Tiger Woods and whether we should withdraw from Afghanistan. It's only when their revered UN weighs inwith a promised inquiry - that will no doubt be as much of a whitewash and a charade as everything else the UN does - that the BBC deigns to elevate the matter to lead item. Written, of course, from the UN's perspective. 

Proving yet again, that where the UN leads, the BBC slavishly follows.

Update: the discussion at 8.10am on Today, featuring green fanatic Jonathan Porritt and - miracle of miracles - a "sceptic", Philip Stott, was an indication of how far on the ropes the warmists are. Porritt admitted through gritted teeth that there was something to investigate in Climategate (though of course still maintaining that "most scientists" say there is a consensus), while Stott skifully painted the picture of why there are major doubts about the causation of warming, and that taxation of CO2 would not in any case solve the problem. 

But, and there was a big but, John Humphrys still accepted far too easily that "glaciers melting" was a definite sign that catastrophe was upon us. Who briefs these people? Laughable.