END OF THE WORLD UPDATE...

>> Monday, October 19, 2009

I see the BBC leads the news this morning with Gordon Brown's wild claims that we face climate catastrophe in the UK if he and his fellow AGW alarmists do not reach "agreement" at the Copenhagen in December. I also read Richard Black's ringing defence of BBC neutrality on this issue here. I then listened to Roger Harrabin's sympathetic item on the issue of the Chinese approach to "tackling climate change." This is a big ticket agenda item for the BBC and as the Copenhagen summit approaches, I think it reasonable that the BBC should give as much prominence to those who cast doubt on the eco-alarmism as those, such as renowned climate scientist Gordon Brown, who shill for it.

13 comments:

lloyd jones 9:42 AM, October 19, 2009  

"50 Day To Save The World" Is there no task too big for this man to tackle? Not content with rescuing the world's banking system he's now moving on to saving the actual World! What a hero.

Bob 9:45 AM, October 19, 2009  

Depends who is casting doubt, and what evidence they have

lloyd jones 9:54 AM, October 19, 2009  

Notice the now dicredited Mann hockeystick graph as one of the pictures associated with Black's piece. No caption and no comment that the graph is now of no relevance to the debate.

Roland Deschain 10:30 AM, October 19, 2009  

Gordon forgot to mention the plagues of locusts and slaughter of the first-born.

Travis Bickle 12:11 PM, October 19, 2009  

BOB
<span>"Depends who is casting doubt, and what evidence they have"</span>

As Jack Regan - the well known TV 70's enviromentalist would say - fag in mouth, non bio-degradable styrofoam cup in hand, foot down on fully leaded gas pedal...

"Shut it!"

David vance 12:24 PM, October 19, 2009  

I hear four horsemen have been spotted flying over Downing Street...

Will 12:32 PM, October 19, 2009  

"Roger Harrabin's sympathetic item on the issue of the Chinese approach to "tackling climate change" - Didn't hear that, but yesterday Milliband minor was on awful R5, the "interviewer" was in a tremendous rush to get the boy to give China a gold star for saving the planet, with Obama'a US still the bete noire.

Bob 12:58 PM, October 19, 2009  

how droll

Roland Deschain 1:09 PM, October 19, 2009  

"Flash, Flash, I love you... but we only have 50 days to save the Earth."

Not Flash, just Gordon.

Graham Evans 2:24 PM, October 19, 2009  

Is there no end to this idiot's delusions? As Jim Royle would say, "Save the world my arse!"
Send for the men in white coats.

Kanburi 4:05 PM, October 19, 2009  

OK, let's start with Professor Richard Lindzen, Alfred P Sloan Chair of Meteorology at MIT.

Then there's Professor John Cristy, former Chief Weather Scientist at NASA, now professor of Climate Science at the University of Alabama, who has won an American Meteorological Society medal for "developing a global, precise record of earth's temperature from operational polar-orbiting satellites, fundamentally advancing our ability to monitor climate".

Or what Dr Eigil Friis-Christensen, Director, Danish National Space Center and Adjunct Professor, University of  Copenhagen? Or Professor Syun-Ichi Akasofu - Professor and Director, International Arctic Research Center?

A very small sample of many eminent climate scientists who do not agree with "the science" being "in".

Asuka Langley Soryu 5:20 PM, October 19, 2009  

This half-blind asshole has saved the world so many times, he makes Superman look like a pantywaist. Damn.

John Horne Tooke 11:57 PM, October 19, 2009  

So it depends whos casting doubt?  What about those that are not? Like Al Gore, Gordon Brown, Hillary Benn, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Harrabin et al.

All great scientists.

Antony Jay

"But we were not just anti-Macmillan; we were anti-industry, anti-capitalism, anti-advertising, anti-selling, anti-profit, anti-patriotism, anti-monarchy, anti-Empire, anti-police, anti-armed forces, anti-bomb, anti-authority. Almost anything that made the world a freer, safer and more prosperous place, you name it, we were anti it."
Antony Jay, Telegraph, July 2007

Andrew Marr

"..the final answer, frankly, is the vigorous use of state power to coerce and repress. It may be my Presbyterian background, but I firmly believe that repression can be a great, civilising instrument for good. Stamp hard on certain 'natural' beliefs for long enough and you can almost kill them off."
Andrew Marr, The Guardian Feb. 1999

Jeremy Paxman

"But the bigger question is whether the BBC itself has a future. Working for it has always been a bit like living in Stalin’s Russia, with one five-year-plan, one resoundingly empty slogan after another. One BBC, Making it Happen, Creative Futures, they all blur into one great vacuous blur. I can’t even recall what the current one is. Rather like Stalin’s Russia, they express a belief that the system will go on forever."
Jeremy Paxman, The James McTaggart Memorial, 24th August 2007

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