FRYING KENYANS
>> WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 06, 2010
While the rest of us freeze, the BBC website is still fervently pushing global warming. The main goal continues to be to give a platform to greenie fanatics who want to increase the hatred between the developing world and the West, by cultivating the line that the West is responsible for a whole catalogue of 'climate change' crimes. This latest 'opinion' piece is by Greig(sic) Whitehead, ofInternational Climate Challenge, another of the type of brainwashing organisations that the BBC help sustain by giving them unmoderated publicity. His piece is about Kenya, a country I love and know well, and it's typical of the genre. Opinions, of course, are the stuff of democratic discourse, but there are limits. This greenie is a preacher of hate.
It took me two minutes on the internet dispel his preposterous lie, that 'climate change' is creating widespread devasatation in the country.
Climatic risks are the norm in the dry pastoral areas of East Africa and often account for widespread social and economic costs and human suffering. Nowhere is this more apparent than in northern Kenya and southern Somalia, which in 2000 were once again caught in the throes of a terrible ‘natural’ disaster.
Kenya has always suffered from droughts, not because of 'climate change' but cyclical weather patterns that are highly complex. On top of that, the population has risen from 5m to 35m in a little over 50 years, and the result has been widespread timber felling, affecting rainfall, the water table and waterflows from the crucial Mount Kenya region.
Extremists in countries like Kenya with a colonial legacy will use any excuse they can to attack their white 'enemies'. So, too, will Muslim fundamentalists, of which there is a significant minority in Kenya. I sympathise deeply with the plight of Kenyans, but what is needed is genuine understanding of their problems, not the spreading of baseless propaganda. What Greig Whitehead is doing by filing such pieces is adding highly-toxic tinder to the complex political set-up in the country. Such men are dangerous, and the BBC should hang its head in shame for encouraging and spreading such naked agitprop.
Newsround Thought Police
>> TUESDAY, JANUARY 05, 2010
Hat tip to "Votefor" in the comments for drawing attention to the latest edition of Newsround (the BBC's news programme aimed at children, for those who don't know).
This evening's programme began with a report from Manchester showing kids enjoying a day off school because of the snow.
Innocent winter fun, same as it ever was?
Not as far as the BBC Newsround thought police are concerned, relentless as they are in their fight against potential global warming thoughtcrimes.
Back in the studio, presenter Sonali was on hand to remind any young viewers who had spent the day having fun in the snow about the terrible super-heated future of our planet:
Sonali: Now this cold snap has been going on since before Christmas so you probably won't be surprised to hear that last month was the coldest December we've had in 14 years. But we're always hearing about global warming so what's going on? Well BBC weatherman Simon King has popped into the studio to help clear up any confusion. Hi there Simon.Hope that helps to "clear up any confusion" kids. You see, we used to have snow and ice "every week", but because of global warming we get milder weather except when we get the same extreme weather we used to get before global warming. Or something. Anyway, never mind all that because it's been a bit hot in Australia and now it's a bit wet. You see, it's all global warming, children. Just promise you won't flick channels and watch all the news about record snowfalls in China and America, OK? That would be too much confusion to clear up in one programme.
Simon: Hello.
Sonali: So why are we seeing this snow when the planet's heating up?
Simon: Well the snow we're seeing at the moment is actually a very rare event. Normally we'd expect to see much milder conditions, but if we look at the whole of 2009 and average the UK temperature, 2009 was actually the fourteenth warmest year on record, so things are signalling to be warming up.
Sonali: And do you think, then, it would have been even colder at the moment?
Simon: Well decades ago the river Thames used to freeze, we used to have snow and ice every week causing all sorts of disruption, so things in the future we could start to see more extreme weather like this. It won't happen every year unfortunately but we could see more colder winters and much hotter summers, so lots of heavy showers, flooding possibly in the United Kingdom and other severe weather across the globe.
Sonali: Really? Everywhere, everyone is going to see extreme weather?
Simon: Absolutely. Well, the globe is warming up. If we look at the whole of the globe and average all of the temperatures there, we can actually say that 2009 was the fifth warmest year on record so the signals are certainly there that our planet is warming up.
Sonali: Thank you very much for coming in Simon. And speaking of that extreme weather, over on the other side of the world Australia has been sweltering through its hottest decade since records began. Now part of the country is recovering from another natural disaster - powerful rainstorms.