BBC Ordered to Stop Giving air Time to Climate Alarmism Skeptics
(NaturalNews) The fact that "climate change" used to
be called "global warming" -- that is, after it was called "global
cooling" in the mid-1970s -- should be indication enough that the
climate alarmists are using every propaganda trick in the book to
convince you that everything you do in the modern world from driving to
work to turning on your lights to heating your home in the winter is
contributing to the planet's demise.
Now, so desperate are the
global masterminds to control the minds and attitudes of the masses
regarding this subject that they have taken to censorship -- again -- in
order to stifle any dissent. The latest example comes via the British
Broadcasting Corporation.
According to Britain's The Telegraph,
BBC journalists are being sent to courses in order to stop them from
inviting "cranks" onto programs to air their "marginal views."
The
BBC Trust recently published a progress report regarding the network's
coverage of scientific topics; the BBC was criticized in 2012 for giving
too much air time to critics who oppose supposedly non-contentious (i.e. already "settled") issues.
Climatechangeglobalwarmingglobalcooling is 'settled' science?
Climate
change/global warming falls into this category, according to the
propaganda ministers at the BBC Trust. As reported by the Telegraph:
The
report found that there was still an 'over-rigid application of
editorial guidelines on impartiality' which sought to give the 'other
side' of the argument, even if that viewpoint was widely dismissed.
Some
200 staff have already attended seminars and workshops and more will be
invited on courses in the coming months to stop them giving 'undue
attention to marginal opinion.'
"The Trust wishes to
emphasise the importance of attempting to establish where the weight of
scientific agreement may be found and make that clear to audiences,"
wrote the authors of the BBC report.
"Science
coverage does not simply lie in reflecting a wide range of views but
depends on the varying degree of prominence such views should be given."
In particular, the Trust said that man-made climate change was one issue in which too many unqualified critics had been given too much air time to voice dissent.
In
April, the BBC was accused of misleading viewers regarding climate
change and creating a "false balance" by allowing global warming
skeptics who the Trust claims were "unqualified" to have enough time to
voice their dissent.
In a highly critical parliamentary report,
the broadcaster was attacked for muddying the waters and distorting the
debate, with Radio 4's Today and The World at One programs singled out for particular denunciation.
As further reported by The Telegraph:
The BBC's determination to give a balanced view has seen it pit scientists arguing for climate change
against far less qualified opponents such as Lord Lawson who heads a
campaign group lobbying against the government's climate change
policies.
Ignore what cannot be ignored
Andrew
Montford, who operates the Bishop Hill climate skeptic blog, former
children's television host Johnny Ball and Bob Carter, a retired
Australian geologist, are among some of the climate change skeptics who
have appeared on the BBC.
According to the report, producers for a September edition of The World at One
regarding the latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) research project -- which purported to determine with "95
percent certainty" that man-made climate change is occurring -- could
not find a single scientist to dispute the findings, so they decided to
go with Carter. On the program, he derided the research as "hocus-pocus
science."
The producers either did not know about, or did not care to contact, experts like Anthony Watts of the blog Watts Up With That, or access any of the peer-reviewed climate-change skepticism at ClimateDepot.com, a facts-based site sponsored by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow.
What
climate alarmists don't care to acknowledge is that there are a number
of scientific gaps and outright falsehoods in the "research" that they
insist "proves" what is thus far unproven, and so-called "skeptics" are
merely pointing out those discrepancies.
Sources:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk
http://www.climatedepot.com
http://www.wattsupwiththat.com
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