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.'
DON'T START ME TALKING....
The bias of the BBC is often accompanied by the sheer inanity. Next week, the Today programme will have "guest editors" and one of these is the "comedian" Stewart Lee. Clearly the BBC are so excited about Stewart's forthcoming editorial debut that they felt inclined to allow him to do an item on Today this morning. (7.42am) Stewart did not disappoint and gave us his curious opinions as to what Oliver Cromwell would think of the modern Christmas. This turned out to be a less than cloaked onslaught on how "commercialism" has killed Christmas, although last time I checked, I can't recall Mr Lee urging a celebration of Christianity? The only good thing about this trash is that it used several excerpts from my favourite song. Sorry I have no link, nothing put up on the site yet by the BBC - have they already cleared off on holiday?
WHEN GOOD NEWS IS NO NEWS!
Good to see the Daily Mail following in our humble footsteps and gettingstuck in to the State Broadcaster;
"Two hours before Britain’s economic figures were released yesterday, the BBC enthusiastically predicted that growth would be ‘even worse than we thought’. The potential economic slowdown was discussed at length in grave tones for three and a half minutes on Radio 4’s flagship Today programme. The issue was considered important enough to be placed third on the programme’s news bulletins at 7.30am and 8am.
Unfortunately, their pessimistic predictions were wrong. Instead of growth being worse than forecast, it was better. But rather than injecting a more optimistic tone into their analysis, they simply relegated the story to being an also-ran.
Indeed it dropped off some later bulletins altogether. The World at One on Radio 4 did not include it in its headlines, neither did BBC1’s 1pm news. Earlier on the Today programme, the normally scrupulously impartial John Humphrys introduced the economy story with a dose of doom. He said: ‘We know the economy is slowing down, which is another way of saying the nation won’t be getting much richer, if at all. But today the latest revised growth figures will be published and everyone seems to think they will show it’s even worse than we thought.’If only the Mail would get with the BBC view of economics and accept that we need to follow the received wisdom of Stepahnie "Two Eds" Flanders and resort to Plan B ....more unfunded spending.
DISASTER!
>> THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2011
My sources tell me that there is weeping and wailing in BBC newsrooms, black ties may be worn and solemn music should be played.....at this breaking news.....
The UK economy grew by 0.6% between July and September, official figures have shown, faster than previous estimates of 0.5%. The rise was driven by strong performance in the service sector and construction, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
OPEN THREAD
Time for another one of these as we move ever closer to Christmas. The floor is yours...
SAILING
Gay advocacy is another perpetual BBC theme and it is picked up in this story being given great prominence on the main news portal this morning;
"Two female US sailors have become the first same-sex couple to share the traditional dockside "first kiss" since the US ended a ban on gays in the army.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta, who had been at sea for 80 days, won the right to be the first person to kiss her partner on shore in a raffle. The couple said the moment had been "a long time coming". The US Army's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy was lifted in September, after years of debate."
ED MILIBAND - RUBIK CUBE MASTER
So Miliband's PR puts out some nonsense about the fact that Red Ed can complete a Rubik Cube puzzle in one and a half minutes. The BBC instantly laps this up, runs an item on it here, with the presenter (Evan Davies) quietly expressing his admiration for the puzzle solving skills of the Labour leader even when the guest expressed a view that 10-20 seconds is more like the speed of a fast Rubik cube solver. It seems that in the absence of Miliband making any impact on the British public, the BBC chooses to try and create the impression he is some sort of genius. That's the real puzzle!
THE STAR CHAMBER
It's a theme that the BBC has been hammering all year in as many programmes as possible; our financial woes have been created by the bad and evil and greedy Bankers. There was a remarkably one-sided discussion on the BBC this morning here, nice prime time slot and full of the usual tripe and hype about the alleged evils of the financial class. Funny how BBC experts all manage to agree on the substantive issue being promoted by the BBC, isn't it? But the BBC is smart and in order to cover any allegations of bias they ran an item here suggesting that "bankers bonuses" were NOT the cause of the global recession. At 6.50am. You have to get up early to hear disssenting voices on the BBC! From my own perspective, the bit of the BBC coverage that most alarms is the elephant in the financial room - namely the role of POLITICIANS in creating the circumstances that encouraged poor decisions by bankers. Gordon Brown's role has been entirely sanitised by the BBC and it one could be forgiven for thinking that there was absolutely no political involvement when nothing could be further from the truth. The Dear Leader has been removed from the picture and all opprobrium is now heaped on the Banks. The BBC also likes to retrospectively claim that it was essential to save the Banks but in fact some people (Including me!) argued then, and now, that no institution is so big that it cannot be allowed to fail. Banks that made poor decisions do not deserve to survive - but it was Labour that moved to prop up these failed entities with our cash and now the BBC whinges about how awful it is whilst insisting it was vital. Talk about conflicted! I was invited to take part in a BBC discussion a few weeks ago on the issue of bankers. I explained my view - namely that Banks are only part of the problem, politicians have been just as bad if not worse, and that a bad bank should be allowed to fail. The producer decided not to proceed with me, you can figure why.
COMPARE AND CONTRAST
>> WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2011
I'm no football fan but I think the BBC are off-side with their treatments of these two stories. First off, John Terry "racist" But earlier today, Luis Suarez "misunderstood".Wonder could Terry claim he is of Uruguayan heritage?
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