AND THE LIGHTS ALL WENT ON IN MASSACHUSETTS!
>> WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2010
Poor BBC. I listened with bated breath to their coverage of the stunning defeat for Obama's Democrats in the heartland seat of Massachusetts. I mean, how would they spin this one? Well, strategy seems to be so far today to not talk about it too much, to then suggest it is Obama's first real defeat since he ascended to power (So whitwashing the stunning defeats he suffered back in the Gubernatorial races last November) and finally to Blame Bush - after all, poor old Obama is getting the kickback from voters because he hasn't solved the economic crisis, yet. A wonderful day to hear the BBC in denial of the obvious fact that it is Obama's radicalism - the thing they drool over - that is handing victory after victory to the GOP.
Won't You Listen To The Children?
>> TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2010
Consider this BBC "look back" over the conference - when schools around the world shared their views through Climate Change Interactive, a BBC World Class project with the British Council (which means you funded it both ways! Bonus!).
These are selected excerpts from the BBC site which make for scary reading in their drone-like rote. Of course these children are all being drip-fed with this nonsense by their respective education authorities, but as all 29 contributions are slavishly pro-AGW one has to ask: Were no non-conformist views submitted for this list? If none, were the BBC asking a balanced question or was a question framed to deliver these responses? Were the responses filtered to remove any sceptical input? And why does the BBC not inform children that there is a contrary school of thought...as a neutral news source should?
We believe that we're affected by climate change because it seems like winter starts earlier.
Sleepy Hollow High School, New York State, USA
Many dust storms blow in the area where I live. There is dust everywhere. Mostly it is very hot, sometimes exceeding 50 degrees Celsius. The duration of summer is increasing.
Government Boys Middle School, Kamboh Nagar, Khanewal, Pakistan
I've noticed the water getting further up the side of the pier and the banks.
Sanday Community School, The Orkneys, Scotland
Bournemouth's main industry is tourism and the wet, drab, grey summers we have been having recently, as well as our beaches are getting washed away with the storms are seriously affecting our income as a town.
Avonbourne School, Bournemouth, England
We are affected by climate change, because in winter it gets colder than before and hotter too in summer.
Al Baihani High Model School, Aden, Yemen
There are a couple of gems though. You've got to admire this entry:
There are no 'seasons' in our country; it's just hot, hot, and hot!
Dhahran Ahliyya Schools, Dhahran, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Erm, yep. "Saudi Arabia" was my clue. Steering into dangerous BBC waters we also have:
The only one who controls it is God.
Njad School, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
How did that one sneak past the BBC anti-Christian censors?
This continuous AGW propaganda is nonsense with a hat on.
Hat-tip to G.O.T. for the graphic, and this post crossed with John Horne Tooke mentioning it on the previous thread.
RAIN DANCE
One of the great greenie apocalyptic lies is that flooding is on the increase because of 'climate change'. Every time a river breaks its banks, Richard Black and his cronies mutter with smug satisfaction that it proves yet again that the science is 'settled'. Their main partner in crime in this alarmism is the so-called Environment Agency, who have been proudly trumpeting - with full BBC assistance - a new report purporting to show that unless we cough up an extra £1bn a year in flood defences, we are all going to drown. As usual, in such BBC reporting, there's not a flicker of a mention of factors such as building on flood plains or - shock horror - that it has always rained in the UK, sometimes quite a lot.
A few minutes browsing on this rather neat little archive shows that not only has Britain frequently experienced floods, but also that they were happening long before BBC greenie panic merchants fingered CO2 as the cause. I was particularly chilled by this, from 1770:
The accounts that have been received during the course of the present month...of the floods in several parts of the Kingdom, exceed any thing of the kind that has happened in the memory of man. The cities and towns situated on the banks of the Severn have suffered very great distress; those on the Trent have suffered still more; the great Bedford Level is now under water; horfes, mills, bridges, in almost every brook, have been borne down; but the most affecting scene of all happened at Coventry, where the waters in the middle of the night came rolling into the lowermost street of the town, and almost instantaneously rose to an alarming height. The poor there, fill the houses from top to bottom; those who occupied the lower apartments perished immediately...
And this, from a couple of years earlier:
The heaviest rain fell at London and the country round it that has been known in the memory of man. It began in the evening, and in a few hours the waters poured down Highgate Hill with incredible violence; the common shores in several parts of the town not being able to carry off the torrent, the adjacent houses were filled almost to the first floors; immense damage was done, and as it happened in the night, many were awakened from sleep in the greatest consternation. The Serpentine river in Hyde-park rose so high, that it forced down a part of the wall and poured with such violence upon Knightsbridge, that the inhabitants expected the whole town to be overflowed...
I noted especially the rather sonorous apocalyptic tenor of the newspaper reports; would that BBC journalists could command such lyricism to leaven their contemporary leaden reports of doom.
Exclamation Mark!
Here's the blurb to a Mark Mardell report about Obama's first year:
In a BBC/Harris Poll 20% of Americans would give President Obama an 'A' for the job he's done in year one.An F! About Obama! Beloved Obama! It's inconceivable! It's outrageous!
But an equal number of people give him a 'C', and the same percentage gives him an F! Mark Mardell reports.
Update. I see the BBC has flown heavyweight political analyst Richard Baconover to the States to celebrate the first anniversary of O's inauguration (written into his latest R5L contract, no doubt). Let's hope the voters of Massachusetts give him something to really talk about.
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