CHRISTMAS OPEN THREAD

CHRISTMAS OPEN THREAD

>> SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2011

We're open every day, 365 a year, so detail any bias you spot over the Christmas holiday here!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Just wanting to take a quiet moment from a hectic schedule to wish ALL Biased BBC writers and readers a very Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2012. It's been a very busy year on the site as we go from strength to strength, with more people than ever regularly visiting Biased BBC. I really do need a few days of a break so let me wish you and yours Seasonal salutations and I will return shortly!

WHILST SHEPHERDS WATCHED...

Bang on cue, the BBC couldn't let Christmas arrive without having yet ANOTHER go at the pesky Jews. Check out this outrageous item ran on Today this morning. It seems that Israeli security restrictions are causing no end of hassle for Palestinian Shepherds seeking to attend festivities in Bethlehem. (No mention as to why these security restrictions are needed, but then this is the BBC..). Also note the repeated use of the "Occupied" land meme plus the "illegal under International Law" trope. Pure Palestinian propaganda brought to you from Jew hatred central.

ICE, BABY

>> FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2011

Propagating AGW cultism is an essential element of BBC broadcasting, as Biased BBC's Alan points out here... "The BBC have been busy recently pumping out the propaganda to support their belief in man made global warming. Many programmes have suddenly appeared about the Arctic and Antarctic....surely no coincidence.Many of the conclusionss are highly questionable and some outright misleading. Apart from the 'Frozen Planet' advert for AGW we have these other programmes bombarding us with the 'science' or not..... Natural World - 2008-2009 - 9. Polar Bears and Grizzlies - Bears on Top of the World Documentary following a mother polar bear, a mother grizzly bear and their newborn cubs as they adapt to a warming world. (R) The shrinking Arctic ice may be making life much tougher for polar bears, but it is offering new opportunities for grizzly bears to the south. Rowing the Arctic - Mark Beaumont and Jock Wishart head an expedition to row a boat to the 1996 north magnetic pole, a point only now accessible due to the recent dramatic retreat of arctic sea ice. Nobody has ever rowed so far into the Canadian high Arctic - a first in the world of exploration and adventure, only made possible by the dramatic retreat of arctic sea ice in recent decades. The Secret Life of Ice - Dr Gabrielle Walker looks deep within the ice crystal to try to discover how something so ephemeral has the power to sculpt landscapes, preserve our past and inform our future. (R) ....'the records of ice and CO2 have moved in tandem for 800,000 years, scientists say this supports their theories of man made global warming....a warning difficult to ignore.' Timeshift - Series 11 - 7. Antarctica: Of Ice and Men. Documentary which looks at why the most inhospitable place on the planet has exerted such a powerful hold on the imagination of explorers, scientists, writers and photographers. (R) ....'The Antarctic needs protection...a fragile frontline of global warming where the effects of global warming are most keenly felt.' The 1996 magnetic north pole is far further south than the present MNP now as the magnetic pole moves northwest about 37 miles per year....is ice melt due to you driving your car to Tescos or is it more to do with the sun and perhaps the tilt of the Earth as it becomes more upright on its axis making the Arctic more 'sunny' and hot? Does the link between temperature rises and CO2 as shown in ice records mean CO2 drives temperature rises? No...even Phil Jones from the CRU has had to admit that temperatures show a rise 800 years before CO2 rises. So slightly disingenuous of the BBC to make that link. And is the Antarctic at the frontline of global warming? No....the Antarctic has seen increased ice for 30 years....who says so? http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

'In recent years, the sea ice cover that surrounds the Antarctic continent has been higher than average, even reaching near-record highs. Antarctic sea ice varies much more from year to year than Arctic sea ice, but overall, ice extent around Antarctica has been growing slightly over the past 30 years.'

and also snow cover is up...though moving around the world.....'overall Northern Hemisphere snow cover was more extensive than normal this November, with most of the extra snow cover found in Canada and Russia. Snow covered an average of 36.2 million square kilometers (14.0 million square miles) of Northern Hemisphere land. This is 2.79 million square kilometers (1.08 million square miles) above the 1971 to 2000 mean, and ranks as the fourth most extensive cover in the past 46 years of satellite-derived snow cover records.'